Convict moves court to attend convocation
Pon Veera Bharathi, 45, a convict with a life sentence in Madurai prison, who has completed six diploma courses, has moved the Madurai high court, seeking permission to attend the convocation at the Tamil Nadu Open University and receive his two gold medals.
AIADMK leader, son killed in revenge attack
An armed gang late on Wednesday night waylaid the car of a senior AIADMK functionary in Sivagangai and hacked him, his nine-year-old son, six-year-old daughter and the driver. The little girl is fight
Dhanapal set to be Speaker
Deputy Speaker P. Dhanapal is all set to get elected as Speaker and fill the vacancy caused by the recent resignation of D. Jayakumar. Governor K. Rosaiah has summoned the House to meet on October 10,
DMK emergency session to discuss Cabinet seats
DMK general secretary K. Anbazhagan late Wednesday called for an ‘emergency session’ of party’s executive meeting at the DMK headquarters here on October 1 amid reports that party president M Karunan
Fisheries varsity blueprint soon
Following chief minister J. Jayalalithaa’s announcement last year about establishing a state-of-the-art fisheries university in the coastal district of Nagapattinam, a high-level delegation, led by fi
State to fill 50% seats in private ITIs to enhance skilled force
In order to provide employability skill training to all the qualified students, the labour and employment department has issued an order to fill up 50 per cent of the seats in private industrial techn
Tasmac staff to strike work Aug.16
Tipplers had better stock up on their liquor stashes as employees of the state’s biggest money grosser, Tasmac, have threatened to go on an indefinite strike from August 16, to protest against the su
Jaya signs Sangma’s nomination papers
Asserting her solid support for P.A. Sangma in the Presidential election, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday proposed the former Speaker’s name.
According to AIADMK sources, Ms Jayalalithaa
Sibling rivalry puts DMK in a fix
DMK president M. Karunanidhi takes pride boasting every now and then that his is a party of disciplined cadres.
But of late, his lieutenants in the party are openly battling each other, in almost ev