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Over 1.71L suicides reported in India in 2023: NCRB report
New Delhi: As many as 1,71,418 suicides were reported in the country during 2023, an increase of 0.3 per cent in comparison to 2022, with family problems and illness being the two…
- Chennai
TN stampede: Vijay says not visiting victims to avoid ‘unusual situation’
Chennai: Days after a rally led by him in Tamil Nadu’s Karur witnessed 41 stampede deaths, actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) founder Vijay on Tuesday said he hasn’t visited the affected…
- Chennai
Nirmala Sitharaman seeks SOP for public gatherings after TN stampede
Karur: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said she had no words to describe the sorrow of the families who lost their loved ones in the stampede here on September 27…
- India
NIA court awards eight-years rigorous imprisonment to two men in 2019 ISIS case
Kochi: A NIA court here on Monday awarded eight years of Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) to two Coimbatore residents guilty of recruiting and propagating the ideology of the global terror group Islamic State…
- India
Karur stampede victim moves HC against nod to TVK to hold rallies
Chennai: A man injured in the September 27 stampede in the political rally of TVK founder Vijay on Sunday moved the Madras High Court with a plea to forbear Tamil Nadu DGP…
- India
Nearly 500 police personnel were deployed for Vijay’s rally: Tamil Nadu ADGP
Karur: Tamil Nadu ADGP (Law and Order) S Davidson Devasirvatham on Sunday said nearly 500 police personnel were deployed for Actor-Politician Vijay’s Karur rally, where a stampede claimed the lives of 40…
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Tamil Nadu stampede: Death toll reaches 40; TVK announces Rs 20 lakh compensation
Karur: As many as 40 people, including nine children, have died due to a stampede at a rally of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu’s Karur on September 27. Mounds of shoes…
- India
Video: Elderly woman attempts to bar Dalit children from using path in Tamil Nadu
A group of school children from the Dalit community in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu were restricted from walking through a mud lane by an upper caste elderly women, who hurled casties…
- India
‘Tamil Nadu govt restraining my movements’: TVK chief Vijay
Tamil Nadu: Actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) founder Vijay, on Saturday, lashed out at the ruling DMK dispensation for allegedly imposing numerous conditions for his political meetings and asked if the…
- Chennai
Heavy rain likely in six Tamil Nadu districts today, IMD issues warning
Chennai: The Regional Meteorological Centre has forecast heavy rainfall across parts of Tamil Nadu on Saturday, with six districts placed under special alert. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), a low-level…
- India
Dalit man hacked to death by lover’s family in Tamil Nadu; four arrested
In yet another disturbing caste killing case in Tamil Nadu, a 28-year-old Dalit man was hacked to death by the family of the woman he loved. K Vairamuthu from Adiyamangalam village of Mayiladuthurai…
- India
Tamil Nadu: Bus conductor refuses to let burqa-clad woman board, allows others in
The Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation has cancelled the licenses of a private bus and its conductor after the latter refused to allow a Muslim woman to board the bus in the…
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Ex-CM Jayalalithaa’s former aide calls for AIADMK merger before 2026 poll
Chennai: Ousted former AIADMK interim general secretary V K Sasikala on Monday appealed for a unification of AIADMK factions before next year’s Assembly election. She said that party workers desired to see…
- India
”I am here to serve people, not make money,” says actor Vijay
Ariyalur: Actor-politician Vijay on Saturday night said that he entered politics only with the intention of serving the people and not for earning wealth. He also said that his aim was to…
- Chennai
TN launches pilot AI, robotics programme in govt schools
Chennai: Exposure to Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and digital tools is no longer confined to private schools. In a significant step towards bridging the technological divide, the Tamil Nadu government has rolled…