A criminal wanted in several cases was shot at by a police inspector for trying to flee after attacking the cop with a sickle in Ch­en­galpattu. Both have been ho­spitalised with grievous injuries.

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It was a nostalgic trip down memory lane for chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Friday, bringing back fond memories of former political leaders and chief ministers in the Assembly, besides reminding he

A day after the National Green Tribunal passed orders on Union ministries of telecom, environment and health, seeking details about the health hazards likely to be caused by cellphone towers and on th

The Madras high court has pulled up government adv­o­cates for voluntarily taking notice for autonomous bodies such as co-operati­ve societies and panchayats. The court has directed the commissioner o

Chief Minister Jayala­l­i­thaa in keeping with her commitment of fulfilling the public transportation needs of the state, introduced a fleet of 675 new buses and launched 286 new routes for State Tra

Giving a much needed push to night policing in the city, senior city police officials and their subordinates ha­ve been on the roads since Monday after the police br­ass, as a crime preventi­on strate

Several well-known private hospitals and government general hospitals in Chennai are releasing bio medical effluents from their operation theatres into the sewers.

Hospital waste including blood and

With the well-marked low pressure weakening in the Bay of Bengal, most places in the north coastal districts of Tamil Nadu would receive rainfall on Friday.

Weathermen have said that scattered rainfa

It may be early, but the Congress party has seemingly entered into election mode already. Rahul Gandhi has deputed a four-member team to TN to assess the party’s prospe­cts in 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Archbishop Geo­r­ge Antonysamy, Apos­t­olic nuncio to West African Countries, as the new Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore. He succeeds Archbishop Malayappan Chinnappa,