Tamil Nadu Honour Killing

A newly-married inter-caste couple was murdered near Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu on Monday evening.

21-year-old Gokulraj, who worked as an engineer and belongs to the Dalit community, was killed in 2015 for his relationship with an upper-caste woman.

Upset over his daughter marrying a man from a Scheduled Caste, a man in Tamil Nadu's Nagapattinam district allegedly killed his wife and two daughters, including a minor, and then died by suicide, police have said.

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat who was killed along with his wife and 11 armed forces personnel in a helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday was cremated with full military honours in Delhi today.

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, who was killed with wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu yesterday, was paid tributes at the military hospital in Wellington before his body left for Delhi.

Tamil Nadu Congress chief KS Alagiri on Tuesday released the Congress manifesto for the April 6 Tamil Nadu Assembly election promising to close liquor shops, bring in a law to protect intercaste marriages and prevent honour killings as well as tax exemption for startups for five years among other things if voted to power.

Last week, Kausalya, 23, learnt with shock and bewilderment about the judgement of the Madras High Court on June 22, which so gravely undermined her courageous struggle for justice for her murdered husband Shankar. They were victims of what is incorrectly termed an "honour killing".

Havildar K Palani, one of the 20 Indian army soldiers killed in a violent clash with the Chinese troops in Ladakh, was laid to rest at hisnative village here with full military honours on Thursday.

A pal of gloom descended on the home of Havildar K Palani as his family waited for his body to reach Tamil Nadu's Kadukalur village. "The final rites would be done at the family's native village, subject to COVID norms. The Army would give the guard of honour," District Collector K Veera Raghava Rao told NDTV.

Widowed a year ago on the orders of her father, S Kausalya today welcomed the verdict of a Tamil Nadu court that sentenced him to death. V Sankar, the 23-year-old engineering student Kausalya married against the wishes of her family in July 2015, was killed barely eight months later by men hired by her father.

Two days after a 22-year-old engineering student was hacked to death in a daylight attack in Tamil Nadu caught on CCTV camera, four relatives of his wife have been arrested.

A young engineering student was hacked to death and his wife left critically injured on a busy road in Tamil Nadu's Tirupur on Sunday, in a chilling attack that has been captured on camera.

Yuvaraj, the prime accused in the suspicious death of a Dalit man Gokulraj has been remanded to a five-day police custody by a court in the Namakkal district of Tami Nadu.

A 27-year-old police officer, Vishnupriya, who was investigating an alleged honour killing case, was found dead in her quarters in Tamil Nadu's Namakkal district.

On June 24, a young engineer in Tamil Nadu was found dead on railway tracks, hours after he was seen speaking to an upper caste girl. A week on, the police have said that 21-year-old Gokulraj was not run over by a train; he was murdered.

A newly-married inter-caste couple was murdered near Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu on Monday evening.

21-year-old Gokulraj, who worked as an engineer and belongs to the Dalit community, was killed in 2015 for his relationship with an upper-caste woman.

Upset over his daughter marrying a man from a Scheduled Caste, a man in Tamil Nadu's Nagapattinam district allegedly killed his wife and two daughters, including a minor, and then died by suicide, police have said.

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat who was killed along with his wife and 11 armed forces personnel in a helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday was cremated with full military honours in Delhi today.

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, who was killed with wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu yesterday, was paid tributes at the military hospital in Wellington before his body left for Delhi.

Tamil Nadu Congress chief KS Alagiri on Tuesday released the Congress manifesto for the April 6 Tamil Nadu Assembly election promising to close liquor shops, bring in a law to protect intercaste marriages and prevent honour killings as well as tax exemption for startups for five years among other things if voted to power.

Last week, Kausalya, 23, learnt with shock and bewilderment about the judgement of the Madras High Court on June 22, which so gravely undermined her courageous struggle for justice for her murdered husband Shankar. They were victims of what is incorrectly termed an "honour killing".

Havildar K Palani, one of the 20 Indian army soldiers killed in a violent clash with the Chinese troops in Ladakh, was laid to rest at hisnative village here with full military honours on Thursday.

A pal of gloom descended on the home of Havildar K Palani as his family waited for his body to reach Tamil Nadu's Kadukalur village. "The final rites would be done at the family's native village, subject to COVID norms. The Army would give the guard of honour," District Collector K Veera Raghava Rao told NDTV.

Widowed a year ago on the orders of her father, S Kausalya today welcomed the verdict of a Tamil Nadu court that sentenced him to death. V Sankar, the 23-year-old engineering student Kausalya married against the wishes of her family in July 2015, was killed barely eight months later by men hired by her father.

Two days after a 22-year-old engineering student was hacked to death in a daylight attack in Tamil Nadu caught on CCTV camera, four relatives of his wife have been arrested.

A young engineering student was hacked to death and his wife left critically injured on a busy road in Tamil Nadu's Tirupur on Sunday, in a chilling attack that has been captured on camera.

Yuvaraj, the prime accused in the suspicious death of a Dalit man Gokulraj has been remanded to a five-day police custody by a court in the Namakkal district of Tami Nadu.

A 27-year-old police officer, Vishnupriya, who was investigating an alleged honour killing case, was found dead in her quarters in Tamil Nadu's Namakkal district.

On June 24, a young engineer in Tamil Nadu was found dead on railway tracks, hours after he was seen speaking to an upper caste girl. A week on, the police have said that 21-year-old Gokulraj was not run over by a train; he was murdered.