Tamil Nadu News  

A journalist and six of her friends had a harrowing experience when they went on a vacation to Tamil Nadu’s Kodaikanal. The woman and her friends were allegedly, not only eve-teased by miscreants, but also mocked by police personnel.
 

Hundreds of ration card holders surged forward pushing a 63-year-old to the ground. The woman was stamped upon.
 

A group of college students who were sitting on the roof of a bus to celebrate ‘Bus Day’, fell off from it. Twenty people were arrested for creating nuisance
 

A 23-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl, who were in a relationship for about two years, decided to elope. Soon after, the girl’s parents allegedly tricked them into accepting their marriage and killed the man.

At a time when the state of Tamil Nadu has been up in arms against the Centre after the latter proposed a three-language formula where non-Hindi speaking states were to learn Hindi, Oscar winning music director AR Rahman took to Twitter to post a rather cryptic message

Amidst rumours of a rift between the BJP and the AIADMK, the ruling party in Tamil Nadu has cleared the air and stated that the DMK was indulging in idle gossiping in a bid to spread false information. The two parties speak in one voice on primary intent like patriotism and worship of God, AIADMK mouthpiece Namathu Amma said.
 

A man in Tamil Nadu’s Theni district was allegedly tied to a gate of a government office and burnt alive. Police are investigating the case. His charred body has been sent for autopsy.

About 40 tonnes of garbage was removed from the Vaigai river in a mass cleaning programme undertaken by the Madurai Corporation.
 

19 illegal immigrants staying in Tamil Nadu’s Tirupur were arrested during a vehicle check. Police found the immigrants in possession of fake Aadhaar cards.
 

A day after 13 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) members took oath as MLAs, the nine AIADMK have also taken oath in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai.
 

A mother beat her five-year-old daughter to death because she hadn’t studied. The child died on the way to hospital, police investigating the matter.
 

12 years after the incident, the Madras HC convicted 16 persons in the case pertaining to the Tamil daily that came under attack in 2007. MK Alagiri’s aide ‘Attack Pandi’ hurled petrol bombs at the Madras office of the daily, leaving three dead. 9 persons have been sentenced to life imprisonment.
 

Tamil Nadu forest minister Dindigul Srinivasan, during a speech, said that prime minister Vajpayee presented a very good budget.

Real estate and retail businessmen are facing the I-T heat. Raids are on at 74 locations in Tamil Nadu including Saravana Stores and Revathi Stores

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa was in Apollo hospital in Chennai for 75 days before her death on December 5, 2016. As there are no details available about her stay in the hospital, an inquiry is underway to know what happened in these 75 days inside the hospital.