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Coimbatore car blast: Tamil Nadu police on high alert
Chennai: Tamil Nadu police are on high alert after a 25-year-old young man was killed in a car explosion at Ukkadam. Jameesh Mubin was killed in the explosion triggered by a gas cylinder…
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Tamil Nadu: Pregnant woman, mother killed as ambulance rams into tree
Chennai: In a tragic incident, a pregnant woman and her mother died when an ambulance taking them to hospital rammed into a roadside tree in Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga district on Friday. The…
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Jayalalithaa death case: Judicial commission seeks probe against Sasikala, ex-minister
Chennai: The Justice Arumugasamy commission that probed the death of former Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has recommended an inquiry against V.K. Sasikala, former aide of Jayalalithaa, former health minister C. Vijayabhaskar and…
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Tamil Nadu govt to launch awareness drive to minimize child marriages
Chennai: Alarmed at a large number of child marriages being reported in the state, the Tamil Nadu Social Welfare department is to conduct awareness campaigns across all 38 districts. According to the…
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TN BJP to hold protest marches to ‘expose’ DMK on Hindi language row
Chennai: Tamil Nadu BJP state president, K. Annamalai has said that the party would conduct protest marches in all districts of the state against the DMK’s hypocritical stand on the Hindi language…
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Chennai: 20-year-old woman pushed in front of a moving train by stalker
A 20-year-old girl named Sathya Priya was pushed in front of a moving train by her 23-year-old stalker named Sathish on October 13. The incident happened in broad daylight at the St…
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TN families return from Kerala areas after human sacrifice cases
Chennai: The families of people working in various parts of Kerala who had left their native villages for seeking better jobs are returning to their respective villages after cases of human sacrifice…
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Tamil Nadu sanctions 9.8 crores for adult literacy programme
Chennai: Tamil Nadu School education department has allotted an amount of Rs 9.8 crore under the New India Literacy Programme (NILP) and the project is aimed to benefit 4.8 lakh people in…
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Transgender people entitled to special quota as 3rd gender: Madras HC
Chennai: The Madras High Court has held without “hesitation” that transgenders are entitled to a special reservation for third gender viz., transgender category for admission to post basic (nursing) and post basic…
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TN: Two held for forcibly cutting transgender woman’s hair
In an incident reported from Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu on Thursday, two men were arrested for forcibly cutting the hair of a transgender woman. The two accused taunted the victim who was…
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TN Congress to give rousing reception to Kharge in Chennai
Chennai: Congress president post candidate and veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge will be given a rousing reception by the party’s state unit on his arrival to Tamil Nadu on October 14, sources said.…
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‘Dravidian identity’ remark: DMK says TN Guv behaving like ‘RSS man’
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi’s assertion that the concept of Dravidian covers the people of southern states but it has now become a Tamil identity due to politics of division,…
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Stalin elected unopposed as DMK chief for second time
Chennai: DMK stalwart and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin was unanimously elected as party president at the party’s general council meeting held here on Sunday. In the newly constituted general…
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Opposition parties protest move to introduce CBSE syllabus in Puducherry schools
Chennai: Opposition parties in Puducherry, including Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and Congress, have come out in protest against the government’s move to introduce CBSE pattern syllabus in government schools of the territory.…