The language battle from Tamil Nadu has found resonance in Maharashtra, with Raj Thackeray, the chief of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, saying the state ought to learn from the southern states about opposing the three-language policy.

A 21-year-old student preparing for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for medical admissions has died by suicide near Chennai.

Actor Vijay - whose fledgling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam is considered a dark horse in next year's Assembly election - launched an all-out attack on Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP.

Telangana became the second state in the south today, with the state assembly passing a resolution against the delimitation exercise that is expected to take place before the 2029 general election.

Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu are due next year and the key players, the ruling DMK and the main Opposition AIADMK, have started building their election planks

AIADMK chief E Palaniswami met Union Home Minister Amit Shah Wednesday, sparking rumours of a re-alliance between their two parties ahead of next year's Tamil Nadu election.

Shihan Hussaini, who was known affectionately known as 'Hu', had been documenting his cancer journey by giving constant updates on his social media accounts.

At least 13 first-year undergraduate students have been suspended for allegedly assaulting a senior student at a college in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao raised concerns over what he called the possibility of a "disproportionate increase in number of seats" in the Lok Sabha and assemblies of some populous northern states after delimitation.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has spoken ahead of a crucial meeting in Chennai this weekend, at which political leaders from seven states, including those from Odisha, Punjab, and Bengal, will discuss the delimitation row.

In a major crackdown, officials from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) raided warehouses of Amazon and Flipkart in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu.

A Chennai court held Kotak Mahindra Bank guilty of perjury and imposed a fine of Rs 1,50,000 on it for collecting excess money on a loan issued to a customer.

Tamil Nadu Excise Minister Senthil Balaji on Friday strongly denied Enforcement Directorate claims of a possible fraud of Rs 1,000 crore in operations of the TASMAC, the state-run liquor sales agency.

Hitting back at the DMK for replacing the rupee symbol in promotional material for the Tamil Nadu budget, BJP state President K Annamalai has said the party is so "stupid" that it doesn't realise that the symbol was designed by a Tamilian.

Tamil Nadu on Thursday replaced the rupee symbol in promotional material for the 2025/26 state budget - which will be presented Friday morning - with a Tamil letter.

A family of four - a doctor, his wife and two sons - were found dead at their home in Chennai's Anna Nagar this morning. The police suspect they died by suicide because of financial problems.

The 'language war' between Tamil Nadu and the centre - the contention that the BJP is trying to impose Hindi on the southern state in the guise of a National Education Policy - continued Wednesday with MK Stalin calling it a plan to develop Hindi.

Tamil Nadu's concern about delimitation and the loss of seats it might case, has translated into its seniormost leaders asking people to have children immediately.

The Tamil Nadu vs centre 'language war' - over the new National Education Policy and the 'imposition of Hindi' on the state, and others in South India - exploded after Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's comments about the DMK.

In an unexpected move, two judges of the Madras High Court made a surprise visit to Puzhal Central Prison on the outskirts of Chennai on Wednesday.

Intensifying his attack on the Centre over alleged Hindi imposition through a three-language policy, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has said demanding linguistic equality is not chauvinism

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan on Wednesday waded into the 'Hindi imposition' and delimitation battle between Tamil Nadu's DMK and the BJP, accusing the latter of trying to "turn India into Hindia" by forcing non-Hindi speaking states to speak it.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday led a meeting of state parties - sans the opposition BJP but including rivals AIADMK - to discuss 'Hindi imposition' and delimitation, topics at the heart of a row between the ruling DMK and centre.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Tuesday opened a new front in his battle with the centre over a proposed offshore petroleum and natural gas mining project in the Gulf of Mannar, which lies between southeastern India and western Sri Lanka.