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.

Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi, chastened by the Supreme Court for holding up 10 bills for over three years, has now landed in a fresh row, after allegedly asking students at a function to chant "Jai Shri Ram" at a function.

A Chennai court had last month held Kotak Mahindra Bank guilty of perjury in the same case and fined Rs 1.5 lakh.

Ten bills - each cleared twice over by the Tamil Nadu government but denied assent by Governor RN Ravi since 2020, amid his hostile stand-off with the ruling DMK - have finally become laws.

Refusing to be drawn into the speculation surrounding K Annamalai's removal as the Tamil Nadu president of the BJP, Union Home Minister and senior party leader Amit Shah has said Mr Annamalai still holds the post.

A Class 8 student of a private school in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore was forced to take her exams outside the classroom, apparently because she was menstruating.

Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief and actor Vijay has called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to assert India's sovereignty over the Katchatheevu Island ahead of his upcoming visit to Sri Lanka.

Adding fuel to speculation that he may be replaced as the president of the Tamil Nadu BJP, K Annamalai has said that he is not in the running to be the next state chief of the party.

The language battle from Tamil Nadu has found resonance in Maharashtra, with Raj Thackeray, the chief of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, saying the state ought to learn from the southern states about opposing the three-language policy.

A 21-year-old student preparing for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for medical admissions has died by suicide near Chennai.

Actor Vijay - whose fledgling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam is considered a dark horse in next year's Assembly election - launched an all-out attack on Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP.

Telangana became the second state in the south today, with the state assembly passing a resolution against the delimitation exercise that is expected to take place before the 2029 general election.

Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu are due next year and the key players, the ruling DMK and the main Opposition AIADMK, have started building their election planks

AIADMK chief E Palaniswami met Union Home Minister Amit Shah Wednesday, sparking rumours of a re-alliance between their two parties ahead of next year's Tamil Nadu election.

Shihan Hussaini, who was known affectionately known as 'Hu', had been documenting his cancer journey by giving constant updates on his social media accounts.

At least 13 first-year undergraduate students have been suspended for allegedly assaulting a senior student at a college in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao raised concerns over what he called the possibility of a "disproportionate increase in number of seats" in the Lok Sabha and assemblies of some populous northern states after delimitation.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has spoken ahead of a crucial meeting in Chennai this weekend, at which political leaders from seven states, including those from Odisha, Punjab, and Bengal, will discuss the delimitation row.

In a major crackdown, officials from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) raided warehouses of Amazon and Flipkart in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu.

A Chennai court held Kotak Mahindra Bank guilty of perjury and imposed a fine of Rs 1,50,000 on it for collecting excess money on a loan issued to a customer.

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.