The Madras High Court on Friday upheld the order of a trial court, which convicted and sentenced Papanasam MLA M H Jawahirullah and four others in connection with a cheating case.

A doctor in Chennai, who died by suicide with his wife and their two teenage sons at their home on Thursday, had suffered financial losses amounting to Rs 5 crore.

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.

The BJP's four Tamil Nadu MLAs walked out of the Assembly Friday, as the budget was being read out, to protest the currency symbol swap and allegations of corruption in TASMAC, the state-run liquor sales agency.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin-led DMK regime on Friday presented its Budget 2025-26 in the Assembly.

D Udaya Kumar, currently working as a professor at IIT Guwahati, designed the Indian rupee symbol in 2010.

The DMK vs BJP 'language war' - over the National Education Policy and the 'imposition' of Hindi on the southern state - made an unsurprising appearance Friday morning as Tamil Nadu Finance Minister read out the 2025/26 budget.

The designer of the rupee symbol has reacted to the controversy over the Tamil Nadu government replacing the sign with the Tamil letter "Ru" in promotional material for the state budget.

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has hit back at Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK over its move to replace the rupee symbol with the Tamil letter (Ru), declaring that it "promotes secessionist sentiments"

The delimitation exercise, due to take place before the 2029 general election, is actually a means to limit South India and reduce its importance and an action plan is being prepared to counter it, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy said today.

The Enforcement Directorate said it has found "multiple irregularities" in the operations of TASMAC that has monopoly over liquor trade in Tamil Nadu.

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 senior official of public sector BHEL shot himself to death in his office here, police said on Wednesday.

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.

Amid the language row in Parliament, a Tamil Nadu MP has said the "northern states are 40 years behind" the southern state, and that people from Tamil Nadu dominate almost all spheres because of a two-language formula.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan shared a letter from the Tamil Nadu school education department that said the southern state was "very keen" to set up PM SHRI Schools, as the Union Minister launched a counter-attack against the DMK.

Rajnath Singh has sought to allay concerns raised by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin over the proposed delimitation exercise in 2026, asserting that the process will lead to an increase in seats across all states, including Tamil Nadu

Isro is developing two new launchpads in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu to support its growing space program. Chandrayaan-4, a 9,200 kg mission planned for 2028, will involve a lunar sample return. The organisation is also collaborating with NASA on the NISAR satellite for environmental monitoring. In the past decade, Isro has launched 433 satellites for 34 nations, wi...

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.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has called on seven counterparts, including Bengal's Mamata Banerjee and BJP-ruled Odisha's Mohan Majhi, to join a 'joint action committee' against the delimitation exercise proposed by the centre.

Hours after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin accused the Centre of imposing Hindi on non-Hindi speakers, Home Minister Amit Shah urged the state government to introduce medical and engineering courses in Tamil.

Doubling down on his vow to not allow "Hindi imposition" in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister MK Stalin has asserted that his state will not be "blackmailed into surrendering" to the central government's demand of implementing the National Education Policy.