Gnanasekharan, a biryani vendor, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old student at Chennais Anna University. Mahila Court convicted him of all 11 charges, including blackmailing, and is yet to pronounce the punishment.
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A major accident was averted in Tamil Nadu's Dindigul district on Friday, when an alert conductor of a private bus pressed the brakes of the moving vehicle with his hands after the driver suffered a heart attack.
The Supreme Court has rebuked the Enforcement Directorate for "crossing all limits" in raids - carried out in March and earlier this month - of state-run liquor shops in Tamil Nadu.
Having won a hard-fought victory in the Supreme Court over the Governor's assent to 10 pending bills, the DMK government in Tamil Nadu has suffered a setback in the High Court over powers to appoint vice-chancellors laid out in one of the new laws.
The DMK worker whose wife accused him of attempted sexual exploitation, has been sacked by Tamil Nadu's Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin.
A young woman from Tamil Nadu has accused her husband - a 40-year-old man associated with the ruling DMK - of torture and sexual harassment, declaring "his job is to force 20-year-old girls to sleep with politicians".
Continued discrimination against Dalits, 80 years after independence, is painful, the Madras High Court said as it heard a plea demanding the Tamil Nadu government intervene to ensure Dalits can enter temples, such as one in Pudukkottai district.
Five men were arrested and seven minors were detained in Tamil Nadu's Pallavaram, near Chennai, for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl several times.
On Tuesday, hours after a Tamil Nadu court sentenced nine men to life in prison - for raping and blackmailing eight Pollachi women multiple times between 2016 and 2018 - Chief Minister MK Stalin and the AIADMK's Edappadi K Palaniswami bickered.
Six years after nine men were accused of sexually assaulting and blackmailing several women in Tamil Nadu'sPollachi, a court has pronounced them guilty. Sessions court Judge R Nandhini Devi found the men guilty of gangrape and repeated rape.
Actor Kamal Haasan, today, rescheduled the audio launch for his upcoming film Thug Life, scheduled for 16 May amid a state of heightened alert in the country.
Their domination continues among government schools too, with Ariyalur, Erode, Tiruppur, Kanniyakumari and Cuddalore securing top honours.
Tamil Nadu Police's Idol Wing has stopped the auction of an antique, dating to the 11th or 12th century, at the European Fine Arts Exhibition in Maastricht in the Netherlands.
An elderly couple was allegedly murdered at their residence in Erode district of Tamil Nadu, police said on Friday.
Tamil Nadu Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi slammed the CBSE for failing Class V and VIII students under the National Education Policy NEP 2020.
The Chennai Metro Rail Limited has conducted a trial run of a driverless train on a 10 kilometre stretch, amid much cheer and excitement from commuters.
A video surfacing on social media has sparked a political row in Tamil Nadu, purportedly showing liquor bottles placed on dining tables during a poll meeting linked to the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in Kallakurichi district.
Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK and Governor RN Ravi are at loggerheads, again. This time it is over Mr Ravi alleging Chief Minister MK Stalin used the state police force to deter vice-chancellors from attending a conference chaired by him in the hill-town
Three college students from Chennai drowned in a river in Coimbatore district on Friday, police said. The three were students of a private physiotherapy college in the Tamil Nadu capital.
Chennai's first air-conditioned (AC) suburban train, which rolled out on Saturday, has come as a boon for several commuters during peak hours as the city battles the sweltering heat due to rising temperatures.
Comments by AIADMK boss Edappadi K Palaniswami, or EPS, suggest the Tamil party will not accept a coalition government and that the alliance with the BJP, for the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly election, is "only for the election".
Less than a week after the Supreme Court pulled him up for blocking Bills, Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi has targeted the MK Stalin-led DMK government over atrocities against Dalits
Two kilograms of cocaine worth Rs 6 crore were seized in Chennai, leading to the arrest of eight individuals linked to a drug trafficking network.
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