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Vellore (Tamil Nadu), May 9: Over 1,500 workers of a Tamil Nadu Muslim party were arrested Friday for violating orders and attempting to pray at a disused 200-year-old mosque inside a fort here. The party promised to continue its struggle to offer prayers at the mosque as its "birth right".
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Vellore (Tamil Nadu), May 9 : About 500 workers of the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) attempting to pray in a disused 200-year-old mosque inside the fort here were arrested Friday, Vellore District Collector D.P. Yadav said.
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Rameshwaram (Tamil Nadu), May 9: Increased surveillance of Tamil Nadu's southeastern coast have resulted in the arrest of two suspected terrorists and the seizure early Friday of a boat laden with contraband ammunition bound for northern Sri Lanka, police said.
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Madurai (Tamil Nadu), May 8 : Upper caste Hindus of Uthapuram village, near here, stayed away from their homes for the third consecutive day Thursday, saying they feared "militant Dalits' attack" after the state government officials breached the village's "wall of shame".
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Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh), May 8: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's son M K Azhagiri, was acquitted along with 12 others on Thursday, by a sessions court here in a case relating to the murder of a former DMK minister for want of reliable evidence.
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Madurai (Tamil Nadu) May 7 : In a veiled criticism of West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Wednesday said he favoured "redefining" the role of governors.
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New Delhi, May 7 : Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK party had threatened to destabilise the central government if the services of Justice A. Ashok Kumar were not confirmed as a Madras High Court judge, senior advocate Shanti Bhushan told the Supreme Court Wednesday.
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Madurai (Tamil Nadu), May 7 : Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Wednesday congratulated the Tamil Nadu government for demolishing part of a village wall that segregated residences of Dalits and upper caste Hindus.
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Chennai, May 7 : The US headquartered business process outsourcing (BPO) company Sutherland Global Services Wednesday announced it would set up its first global campus in Chennai.
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Villupuram (Tamil Nadu), May 7 : The Tamil Nadu police Wednesday launched investigations into an alleged land scam involving at least Rs.90 million following charges of fraud in ownership documents of 300 acres of land.
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Chennai, May 7 : The US-based heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) firm Trane Inc launched its global design centre here to support the company's Indian market as well as its global research and development (R&D) wing, said a top official.
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Chennai, May 7 : A multinational venture capital fund has invested "sizeably" in New Horizon Media (NHM), a closely held corporation having published over 650 books that have sold 250,000 copies, its co-founder K. Satyanarayan said here Wednesday.
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Chennai, May 6 : With the mercury soaring above 41-degree mark, Chennai was reeling under heat wave conditions on Tuesday.
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Chennai, May 6: At least Rs.1 million in cash went up in flames when the ATM machine of a private bank caught fire due to a short circuit here Tuesday evening.
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Madurai, May 6 : Tension erupted in a Tamil Nadu village Tuesday after the administration demolished part of a 20-year-old wall that segregated residences of Dalits and upper caste Hindus. A senior government official said late in the evening that peace had returned to the village and adjoining areas.
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Madurai, May 6: Tension erupted in a Tamil Nadu village Tuesday after the administration demolished part of a 20-year-old wall that segregated residences of Dalits and upper caste Hindus. Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi appealed for calm, saying the government would call the army, if needed, to maintain peace.
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Chennai, May 6: At least 1,500 people, duped by a multi-level marketing (MLM) firm, queued up at the police commissioner's office here Tuesday to lodge complaints, officials said.
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Chennai, May 6 : A police constable was arrested here after he set his pregnant lover afire, official sources said Tuesday.
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Chennai, May 6 : Tamil Nadu Tuesday signed an agreement with the Hyderabad-based Emergency Management Research Institute (EMRI) to provide free emergency assistance to people across the state through an integrated dialling code '108'.
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Chennai, May 6 : A Malaysian woman entrepreneur has been detained by Chennai police for alleged fraud.
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Chennai, May 6: A complaint has been registered against N.A. Kone, former Samata Party Tamil Nadu unit chief, alleging that he had cheated the party and party workers to the tune of Rs.3.5 million, a Samata Party official said Monday.
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Chennai, May 5: A further 16 kg of gold was seized from multi-level marketing (MLM) company Quest Net and three more of its employees were arrested following an investor's complaint, police officials said here Monday.
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Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu, May 5: Thirty five Sri Lankan Tamil nationals, including ten children, arrived in two clandestine boats, here today, owing to intense battle between the Sri Lankan armed forces and LTTE.
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Puducherry, May 5: A microchip was today implanted on the left ear of an elephant belonging to the Manakkula Vinayagar Temple here to trace its position in case of missing.
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Chennai, May 5: The Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of Tamil Nadu is caught in a legal wrangle for allegedly ordering provision of information about the ''answer keys'' to some of the examinations conducted by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC).
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Chennai, May 5: Traders across Tamil Nadu closed their shutters in protest against rising prices of essential commodities on the occasion of 'Vanigar Dinam'(Traders' Day).
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Puducherry, May 5: The Puducherry administration would start virtual class rooms at 20 centres as a pilot project from June this year, Education Minister M O H F Shajahan told the assembly today.
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Chennai, May 5: Tamil Nadu, which emerged as the first state in the country to release school text books in website, has proposed to provide laptops to school kids, to relieve them of the burden of carrying books.
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Chennai, May 5: The Tamil Nadu government would soon unveil a comprehensive new IT Policy, aiming to provide 30 lakh jobs and capture a 25 per cent share of Indian ICT production by 2011, Local Administration Minister M K Stalin announced in the state assembly today.
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Chennai, May 5: With the investment climate buoyant , the Tamil Nadu government will sign 25 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs)attracting an investment of more than Rs 30,000 crore in 2008, Local Administration Minister M K Stalin told the state Assembly today.
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Chennai, May 5: Tamil Nadu would create 30 lakh additional jobs in the next three years and aspires to capture 25 per cent share of the country's total ICT production by 2011 from the present 11 per cent, Local Administration Minister M K Stalin announced in the State Assembly today.
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Kanniyakumari, May 5: Actor-politician R Sarath Kumar has challenged Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi running the government with the outside support of allies, to seek a fresh mandate.
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Tiruchirapalli, May 5: Ten new vaccines would be introduced in the routine immunisation programme in Tamil Nadu this year, according to Public Health Services State Director P Padmanaban.
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Karur, Tamil Nadu, May 5: Weaving units in the textile town of Karur and surrounding areas remained closed as part of their three-day strike from today in protest against the steep increase in yarn prices over the past few months.
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Chennai, May 5 : City-based offshore technology operations major Cybernet-SlashSupport (CSS) announced Monday it has signed a partnership agreement with mySolutions, a Pretoria-based IT solutions company, for its expansion into technology services and support market in Africa.
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By T.S.V. Hari, Chennai, May 4 : Discoveries of explosives' caches in two Tamil Nadu districts Sunday worried state police officials on a day the US government indicated increased Maoist activity in Tamil Nadu since last year.
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By Papri Sri Raman, Coimbatore, May 4: This year, the Mudumalai wildlife sanctuary is encouraging school kids to spot a tiger. Yet, a tiger sighting here can be the rarest of rare experiences.
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By Papri Sri Raman, Coimbatore, May 4 : The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) says in its latest census report that the Nagarhole-Mudumalai-Bandipur-Wayanad reserve forests that straddle three states in the Nilgiris has about 266 tigers. The state governments of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala disagree.
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Chennai, May 3 : Gold coins weighing 71 kg worth over Rs.215 million ($5.37 million) were seized and five employees of a multinational multi-level marketing (MLM) company Quest Net were arrested for cheating, the police said Saturday.
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Chennai, May 3 : Tamil Nadu has been given Rs.1 billion ($25 million) from the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) as its share to step up HIV/AIDS prevention and control at district level.
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