41+ min ago   (276+ words) CHENNAI: Leader of the Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin on Sunday urged the DMK cadre to ensure the party’s victory in the upcoming bypolls to two Assembly constituencies, saying the results should mark the beginning of the ruling TVK government’s decline. Speaking…...

23+ min ago   (195+ words) BENGALURU: Minor Irrigation and Science and Technology Minister Dr Ajay Dharma Singh said Karnataka has completed fieldwork for the seventh Minor Irrigation Census and the second Census of Water Bodies, covering 30,671 villages, 300 urban local bodies and 7,128 urban wards. The census…...

44+ min ago   (280+ words) The New Indian Express CHENNAI: With the state taking measures to introduce third-party planning permission for smaller residential, commercial, and industrial buildings by empowering registered engineers, the housing and urban development department recently issued an order to introduce a unified…...

51+ min ago   (181+ words) The New Indian Express CHENNAI: At least 200 DMK functionaries and members, including party deputy general secretary A Raja, former ministers Ma Subramanian, P K Sekar Babu, former MP R S Bharathi, Mayor R Priya and other senior party functionaries, were…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago   (247+ words) The New Indian Express BENGALURU: Karnataka Public Works Minister Satish Jarkiholi on Saturday pushed back against media coverage of his comments on the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) probe against him, insisting he had never “challenged” the central agency and…...

1+ hour, 7+ min ago   (195+ words) The New Indian Express CHENNAI: A youth was arrested for allegedly stabbing a 46-year-old man to death near a playground in Madhavaram on Saturday night following a drunken altercation. According to the Madhavaram police, Hari of Ganesh Nagar, who was…...

1+ hour, 5+ min ago   (303+ words) CHENNAI/TIRUCHY: The Left parties, which support the TVK government from the outside, on Sunday announced that they will contest the upcoming bye-elections to two Assembly seats in Tamil Nadu together and would not support any other alliance in the…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (273+ words) COIMBATORE: Two men were arrested for allegedly abducting and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl on Saturday. Police opened fire at one of the suspect when he allegedly attempted to escape from the scene, and subsequently arrested him. The arrested were…...

57+ min ago   (217+ words) CHENNAI: DMK deputy general secretary A Raja on Sunday withdrew his recent remarks against Electricity Minister C T R Nirmalkumar, after the comments had drawn flak from the CPM and from some sections within the DMK. Raja made the alleged…...

1+ hour, 16+ min ago   (480+ words) MYSURU: Tension prevailed in T Narasipura on Sunday after BJP leaders and workers protested against alleged restrictions imposed by the police on Ganeshotsava processions and demanded the suspension of T Narasipura Police Inspector Dhananjay. The protesters, led by Assembly opposition…...