In a disturbing case of child trafficking, five people, including the father of a newborn, have been arrested in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvarur district for allegedly selling the infant for Rs 1.5 lakh. The male baby has been rescued.

With just eight months to go for the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, Chief Minister MK Stalin is set to launch a major health outreach campaign on Saturday, marking the second large-scale public initiative by his government in recent months.

A cloud of grief and unanswered questions hangs heavy over the home of 19-year-old Nithin Sai, a final-year BA English student, who was killed after a high-speed luxury SUV rammed a bike he was riding pillion on.

The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to refrain from naming welfare schemes after living political personalities or using photographs of former Chief Ministers or ideological leaders in government publicity material.

The family had earlier refused to accept his body after the post-mortem, demanding the arrest of the cop parents of the accused.

Three youngsters -- one of them the grandson of a DMK councillor -- have been arrested after their Range Rover car hit a two-wheeler in Chennai. The pillion rider, Nithin Sai, a college student died.

The BJP's Tamil Nadu election plans took a hit Thursday after O Panneerselvam - a three-time former Chief Minister from the politically influential Thevar community - led his AIADMK faction out of the party-led National Democratic Alliance.

The young woman from a so-called upper caste community in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli - whose parents and brother are accused of killing her Dalit boyfriend - appealed for their safety in a video released Thursday.

The elephant reportedly entered farmlands near the foothills, prompting local farmers to alert forest officials. However, despite swift action deploying bulldozers, the elephant could not be saved.

In a major breakthrough in the alleged honour killing of Dalit techie Kavin Selvaganesh, the Tamil Nadu police have arrested sub-inspector Saravanan, the father of the main accused Surjith, who had earlier been arrested.

The Tamil Nadu police have transferred the case involving the alleged honour killing of Dalit techie Kavin Selvaganesh to the Crime Branch - CID for a "fair and independent investigation".

Tamil superstar Vijay has launched his party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK)'s official membership enrolment app 'MyTVK', setting an ambitious target of enrolling two crore members ahead of the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.

With the arrest of Siluvairaj, the Narcotics Control Bureau believes it has netted a crucial link in the international drug pipeline operating out of Tamil Nadu's coastal belt.

Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief and actor-politician Vijay has launched a scathing attack on the BJP and the ruling DMK, calling their recent posturing over Tamil pride and the Chola legacy a "coordinated drama" aimed at political gain.

An article in the DMK's mouthpiece, Murasoli, claimed that the party and its government's three-pronged outreach will ensure a second term.

The Tamil Nadu government has urged the Supreme Court to declare the Presidential Reference on the powers and timelines for Governors and the President to act on state bills as "not maintainable".

A 23-year-old Dalit techie from Chennai was murdered allegedly by his girlfriend's brother in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, today.

The meeting came against the backdrop of a simmering war of words between the allies over the nature of a possible National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in Tamil Nadu, should the coalition win in 2026.

Landing in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi on Saturday, returning from his overseas trip, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation for projects worth Rs 4,800 crore.

Thirteen days after the sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district, police have arrested the suspect, identified as Biswakarma, a migrant worker from Assam.

Making a breakthrough, police in Tamil Nadu have detained a man from West Bengal who is suspected to be behind the sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl in Tiruvallur district.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President MK Stalin has come out strongly against the Election Commission of India's (EC) ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, calling it a dangerous attempt to "engineer outcomes".

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan, freshly sworn in as a Rajya Sabha MP, has released a deeply reflective open letter addressed to citizens of the country including his home state, Tamil Nadu.

Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Thursday accused arch-rival Edappadi K Palaniswami of "trying to pave the way for the BJP... to gain ground" before next year's election.