CHENNAI: The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Chennai, have forecasted a slight drop in temperature over the next few days in Tamil Nadu.

CHENNAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that the DMK is not only keeping Tamil Nadu trapped in old thinking and old politics but also going full steam ahead with its agenda of 'Divide, Divide and Divide' and rule.

NEW DELHI: Having repeatedly highlighted that Tamil Nadu's development reflects the development of the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues with the ruling government's 'South Push' as Chennai gears up big time for the PM's mega roadshow on Tuesday.

CHENNAI: The Election Commission of India on Tuesday seized unaccounted money to the tune of Rs 74.50 lakh from a car during vehicle checks at the Vallam toll gate on the outskirts of Tamil Nadu's Vellore town.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address public meetings in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit and Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat on Tuesday. He will also hold a roadshow in Tamil Nadu's Chennai.

CHENNAI: The Congress on Monday in its sixth list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls named Robert Bruce in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli constituency.

CHENNAI: The ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which is leading INDIA bloc in Tamil Nadu, has decided that the son of Chief Minister M. K. Stalin, Udhayanidhi Stalin will micromanage campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in western Tamil Nadu, which is an AIADMK bastion.

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin will visit Pollachi town to launch welfare projects benefitting 25,000 people on Wednesday.

CHENNAI: Customs officials in Tamil Nadu on Monday seized 100 kg of hashish valued at Rs 110 crore from a godown in Pudukkottai.

CHENNAI: The Crime Branch-CID of Tamil Nadu has constituted a special team to trace former Tamil Nadu DGP, Rajesh Das, who is missing.

CHENNAI: Social organisations in Tamil Nadu are up in arms against the sale of illicit liquor being sold in the state.

NEW DELHI: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the name of four astronauts to lead India’s Gaganyaan mission, during his visit to ISRO’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre, a major controversy broke out in Tamil Nadu over ruling party’s eulogy of China at the cost of country’s premiere space organisation.

CHENNAI: Seat-sharing between the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the Congress for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections will be completed by Tuesday (February 27).

NEW DELHI: President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday appointed new Governors of Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and Uttarakhand.

CHENNAI: Four women were killed when the passenger van in which they were travelling rammed into a water tanker lorry on Thursday morning at Sillanathanam village in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district.

CHENNAI:  A day after forty seven-year-old Revathy, who was attacked with acid by her husband in Tamil Nadu's Salem district on Monday, succumbed to her injuries her husband Yesudasan was arrested by the police from Karur.

CHENNAI:Founder leader of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), Dr S. Ramadoss has said that the Central government jobs in Tamil Nadu must go to locals.In a statement on Monday, the senior leader said that Tamils are ignored for jobs in Southern Railway and other Public sector undertakings even after they have the necessary qualifications.

CHENNAI:The mention of non-existent 'Kongu Naadu' in Tamil Nadu as the place from where the newly sworn in Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Information Broadcasting L. Murugan hails, has sparked speculations including creation of a new union territory.

CHENNAI: C.Sylendra Babu, a 1987 batch IPS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre has taken charge as the new Director General of Police (DGP) of the state.
Babu took charge at the police headquarters from the incumbent DGP, J.K. Tripathy who has retired from service

CHENNAI:AIADMK coordinator and former Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, O. Panneerselvam has demanded reduction in prices of petrol and diesel in the Tamil Nadu.

By Venkatachari Jagannathan
CHENNAI: She was a shy girl when she first stepped into the movie world. Decades later, by when she was one of the most popular actors in Tamil, Jayalalithaa became a colossus in Tamil Nadu's politics, one who dreamt of playing a larger national role too.

NEW DELHI: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is likely to sweep the Tamil Nadu assembly with a projected win on 158 seats, which is a growth of 60 seats over what it won in 2016 assembly elections, whereas the vote share is also supposed to rise by 2 per cent, as per the IANS C-Voter Poll Survey.

CHENNAI: After four years, former AIADMK leader V.K. Sasikala returned to Tamil Nadu on Monday to a grand welcome by supporters, with her arrival leaving the ruling party in jitters ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections.

NEW DELHI: Once dominated by former matinee idols like late MG Ramachandran and J Jayalalitha or DMK's writer-politician M Karunanidhi, Tamil Nadu politics is likely to miss the star power in the 2021 Assembly elections.

CHENNAI:At least four passengers, including a woman, were electrocuted while 10 others received injuries after their bus came in contact with a power transmission line in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district, police said on Tuesday.

CHENNAI: BJP President and Rajya Sabha member J.P. Nadda and Congress leader and Lok Sabha member Rahul Gandhi will be in Tamil Nadu on January 14 and celebrate the harvest festival Pongal.

CHENNAI:Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K.Palaniswami's mother Thavusayammal passed away in the early hours of Tuesday at a private hospital in Salem in Tamil Nadu.
The 93-year-old Thavusayammal was admitted to the hospital for age related ailment.

CHENNAI:As many as 84 persons including security and fire service personnel posted at the Raj Bhavan here have tested positive for coronavirus, said a statement.

CHENNAI:Six persons including a three-year-old girl died when the car in which there were travelling veered off the road and fell into a ditch on Thursday morning in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu, police said.

CHENNAI:College students in Tamil Nadu on Monday protested against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, expressing solidarity with students of Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi who had clashed with the police.

CHENNAI/NEW DELHI:National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday carried out searches at two locations in connection with a case earlier this regarding an alleged conspiracy by the Islamic State (IS) Daish module in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

By Venkatachari Jagannathan
CHENNAI: She was a shy girl when she first stepped into the movie world. Decades later, by when she was one of the most popular actors in Tamil, Jayalalithaa became a colossus in Tamil Nadu's politics, one who dreamt of playing a larger national role too.