Category: Tamil Nadu

The seventh edition of The Hindu Lit for Life is taking place at the Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall in Lady Andal School in Chennai from Saturday. The winner of the The Hindu Prize for 2016 is Kiran Doshi for his book, Jinnah Often Came to Our House @nirmala_now, Director Kasturi & Sons Ltd and Lit for Life is on […]

A public interest litigation (PIL) petition has been filed in the Madras High Court Bench here seeking a direction to the Centre and the State government to nationalise the assets of the former Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, and appoint a retired High Court judge to administer the properties. Tamil Nadu Centre for Public Interest Litigation, a non-governmental organisation based here, filed […]

Ten more fishermen from the state were today arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly fishing in the island nation’s waters, taking the total number of those held in the past one week to 20, as the state government sought the Centre’s intervention to secure their release. The fishermen from Rameswaram and Pudukottai district were apprehended and their boats […]

DMK’s working president M.K. Stalin has stepped down as the youth wing secretary of the party after holding the post for 34 years. Former Minister and three-time MLA Vellakkoil M.P. Saminathan has been appointed as the youth wing secretary. “It is a great honour. I will live up to the expectations of party president Kalaignar, general secretary K. Anbazhagan and […]

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed petitions filed by rebel AIADMK MP Sasikala Pushpa and a youth organisation seeking an order for a CBI investigation into the death of the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, and warned that it would fine them if they pressed the plea further. “What are we supposed to do here? You have filed a […]

Ten Tamil Nadu fishermen have been arrested and their two boats impounded by Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly fishing in the island nation waters, officials said today. The fishermen from Jegathapattinam in Pudukottai district were fishing in Neduntheevu last night when the Lankan Navy arrested them and took to Kankesanthurai in northern Sri Lanka, Pudukottai Assistant Director of Fisheries Sekar […]