With assembly elections due in five months, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin launched the second phase of the Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam (KMUT), expanding the flagship women's rights entitlement scheme to benefit an additional 17 lakh women.

K Balu said the purpose was his visit was to invite the TVK to participate in their December 17 protest in Chennai, demanding a caste-based survey in the state.

At Chennai's Rohini Silver Screens, the atmosphere resembled a festival

The MPs say the allegations raise serious questions on impartiality, transparency and secular functioning of the judiciary.

Supriya Sahu has been honoured for her pioneering, long-standing environmental leadership in India, particularly her work on plastic reduction, wildlife conservation, and more recently, sustainable cooling.

Even as actor and politician Vijay sharply criticised the BJP at the centre, he showered praises Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy, who is a leader of BJP's ally the AINRC (All India NR Congress).

The shift comes amid renewed speculation that the BJP has been encouraging AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palanisamy to allow the two leaders to return under the wider NDA umbrella.

The coach was allegedly assaulted by three local cricketers over their non-inclusion in the team for the ongoing Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT).

Ahead of a crucial AIADMK Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday, intense speculation is swirling within the party and the NDA over the possible return of expelled AIADMK leaders O Panneerselvam (OPS) and TTV Dhinakaran to NDA .

A handgun scare a man, who claimed to be from Tamil Nadu, detained after police found a revolver on him and a promise to the people of Puducherry marked actor-politician Vijay's first outdoor public event since 41 died in the Karur stampede.

KN Nehru also recalled that the High Court had already quashed the bank loan fraud case against his brother, which the ED claims led them to the current set of accusations.

Actor-politician Vijay is all set to address his first public meeting in Puducherry on Tuesday, speaking from the rooftop of his campaign bus in what his party, the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, insists is a standalone gathering and not a roadshow.

Turning the heat on Tamil Nadu Municipal Administration and Water Supplies Minister KN Nehru, the Enforcement Directorate sources claim to have written to the state government to file another FIR against him for an alleged Rs 1,020 crore corruption.

Entry restricted to the local and a strict cap on the number of participants are some of the conditions enforced by the Puducherry Police as Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief and actor Vijay is set to hold a political rally in the Union Territory

A strict cap on the number of participants, demarcated enclosures and monitored entry are some of the conditions enforced by the Puducherry Police as TVK chief and actor Vijay is set to hold a political rally in the Union Territory on Tuesday.

IndiGo's disruptions were reduced at the Chennai airport on Saturday after the Centre relaxed some Flight Duty Time Limitations, but several passengers remained stranded following cancellations,

As the BJP intensified its attack on the ruling DMK over what it calls an "anti-Hindu stand" in the Thirupparankundram lamp lighting controversy, Chief Minister MK Stalin has attempted to turn the spotlight back on the Centre.

The atmosphere at the Chennai airport was filled not with excitement, but with confusion, stress, and helplessness as nearly total Indigo flight cancellations left passengers stranded for the third day.

Three elephants, including a calf, were found dead under mysterious circumstances in a privately owned forest in Vellore district on Thursday, triggering a joint Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh investigation.

The ruling DMK has said the development is "not a setback" for the party. The judiciary must also "respect the powers of the state," the party insisted.

The Madras High Court's Madurai bench on Thursday dismissed an appeal by the Tamil Nadu government and Madurai District Collector challenging a contempt order in the Thirupparankundram Subramaniaswamy temple case.

Amid escalating tensions over the Karthigai Deepam controversy in Thirupparankundram, senior Tamil Nadu government officials have strongly denied allegations by the BJP that the ruling DMK is "acting against Hindu interests".

In a late-evening development today, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court pulled up the Tamil Nadu government for wilful disobedience after the Karthigai Deepam (holy lamp) was not lit on the ancient Deepathoon pillar at Thirupparankundram.

The traditional lighting of a temple lamp in Tamil Nadu's Thirupparankundram is rapidly turning into a political row that could cost the ruling DMK in the assembly election due early next year.