In a big seizure, the Narcotics Control Bureau in Chennai has recovered 1.8 kg of cocaine and 1.4 kg of MDMA (ecstasy), busting a pan-India network. The consignment, authorities said, is worth Rs 22 crore in the international market.
The Greater Chennai Corporation has removed 460 hoardings in a crackdown on unauthorised and illegal hoardings following the tragic fall of a large hoarding in Mumbai that killed 14 people at a petrol station.
The 72-year-old MLA and speaker of the Tamil Nadu assembly, M Appavu, is inspecting the final phase of his pet project - the interlinking of three rivers in his Radhapuram assembly constituency in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu MP M Selvaraj died early this morning at a private hospital in Chennai where he was undergoing treatment for kidney-related illnesses. The 67-year-old Nagapattinam MP had undergone a kidney transplant in the past.
He lost control and accidentally pressed the accelerator instead of the brake and collided with a pillar-like structure within the temple premises.
Eight people were killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory near Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu.
A flubbed comment from Congress's Sam Pitroda that raised howls of outrage from the BJP, was tweaked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today to target Congress ally DMK.
The Greater Chennai Corporation has tightened rules for entry of pets, particularly dogs inside public parks following the recent attack on a 5-year-old girl by two Rottweiler dogs in a city park.
Five visiting medical students, including two women, drowned in sea off Kanniyakumari coast in Tamil Nadu on Monday.
A five-year-old girl has suffered serious injuries in an attack by two Rottweiler dogs at a park in Chennai last night, rekindling the debate over keeping dogs from aggressive breeds as pets.
The burnt body of a Tamil Nadu Congress leader. who had been missing for two days, has been found in farmland owned by him, prompting the police to form three special teams to investigate the death.
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has ordered the National Testing Agency (NTA) to make sanitary pads available near toilets at National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) examination centers across India.
Heatwave conditions prevailed in most parts of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday with many places sizzling between 38 to 41 degrees Celsius.
A former assistant professor, Nirmala Devi, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by a court in Tamil Nadu for soliciting sexual favors from women students to university officials.
The terrifying sight of an infant sitting on the edge of a tin roof shocked residents of an apartment complex in Chennai's Avadi on Sunday. The three-minute clip shows the dramatic rescue of the infant who fell from the fourth floor.
D Gukesh is the first Indian after the great Viswanathan Anand to win the Candidates Tournament.
An Indian heart has given new life to a young woman from Karachi in Pakistan, and her family, after a transplant surgery at Chennai's MGM Healthcare.
Sheejith Krishna, a former faculty of Chennai's Kalakshetra Foundation, has been arrested today on allegations of sexual harassment by former students.
A man was caught with Rs 14.2 lakh in unaccounted cash by authorities on the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border.
The Madras High Court in a significant development directed the Election Commission (EC) to provide detailed information on cases filed during the 2019 Lok Sabha and the 2021 Tamil Nadu elections.
The Coimbatore police has filed an FIR against BJP candidate and its state chief K Annamalai for allegedly campaigning beyond the 10 PM deadline last night.
Tamil Nadu has never been a happy hunting ground for the BJP, which secured less than 3.7 per cent of the votes in the 2019 election and less than three in the 2021 state poll.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday invoked the memory of ex-Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to attack the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, accusing the ruling party of disrespecting women and keeping the state "trapped in old thinking...".
The Congress on Monday called poll strategist Prashant Kishor's latest prediction that the BJP could come "number 1" in West Bengal and make substantial inroads in southern states in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls as "ludicrous".
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