Chennai: A couple arrested in Assam and Manipur in connection with the murder of a woman whose dismembered, headless body was found in a suitcase aboard the Tamil Nadu Express at Agra railway station were brought to Chennai under heavy police security.The accused, Manik Uddin Laskar and his wife Bhagabati Majhi, were brought from Guwahati…
Chennai: Three people were killed and one was critically injured when two bikes collided head-on near Sriperumbudur on Sunday evening.Duraipandian, 26, of Madurai, an HR manager at a private firm in SIPCOT, and his co-worker, Yuvaraj, 23, of Panruti, went to a theatre in Oragadam to watch a movie and were returning to their residence…
Chennai: PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss flayed successive state govts for their alleged failure to protect Pallikaranai marsh and asked if the govts were `unfit’ to do conserve the marshland.Anbumani Ramadoss who led an awareness rally in Chennai demanding the notification of Pallikaranai marsh, questioned the reason for not `protecting’ the marsh. “Will you adopt the…
Amid talks of possibility of Vijay as next PM Kanyakumari: Amidst TVK propaganda projecting chief minister C Joseph Vijay as a prospective prime minister, Congress leader and Tamil Nadu tourism minister S Rajesh Kumar on Sunday said he would quit the cabinet if TVK refuses to accept Rahul Gandhi as the PM candidate in the…
Chennai: Seven years after police booked a motorcyclist over an accident, a motor accidents claims tribunal has held that he was not primarily responsible for the crash. The tribunal awarded him ₹6.6 lakh compensation, finding that the car he hit had been parked dangerously on the roadside — a violation of Section 122 of the…
The scale and impact of the disaster are such that belongings of those affected by the floods could be found hundreds of kilometres from the site of the incident. CHENNAI: Around 100 of the nearly 319 people from Tamil Nadu who travelled to Nepal remained untraceable following the flash floods there, state Information Minister A…
Chennai: Three of the seven high-density routes that Indian Railways plans to expand to four lanes pass through Chennai. This places the city at the centre of a nearly 11,000km network that carries around 41% of the country’s railway traffic, although these routes account for only 16% of the networkThe seven high-density routes identified are…
First incident happened around 9 am on Saturday. CHENNAI: A pelican was seriously injured and another died after being attacked by unidentified miscreants at Korattur Lake over the last two days.While the first incident occurred around 9 am on Saturday on the western side of the lake, the second bird was attacked around noon on…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu BJP president Nainar Nagenthran on Saturday accused assembly speaker J C D Prabhakar of compromising the neutrality of his constitutional office by bringing his religious identity into legislative proceedings and seeking reservation benefits for a section of his community from the speaker’s chair.“The speaker’s chair is above caste and religion. By using…
Rain in Chennai | File photo Chennai: Rain activity may return next week, with a weather system over the northeast Bay of Bengal likely to create favourable winds for convective rainfall over north coastal Tamil Nadu from Sept 1.V R Durai, director of Area Cyclone Warning Centre, India Meteorological Department, said a low-pressure area has…
