The toll in the Nellore train tragedy rose to 33 on Friday morning with the death of Sambasiva Rao, 33, who was admitted to a private hospital in Vadapalani on Monday with 90 per cent burns.

Rao’s re

Our cellphone towers confuse them and make them lose their way; our ‘concretisation’ of green spaces leaves them starving and our vehicle fumes deaden their senses. Now, discarded paper cups are drown

Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa has allotted Rs60 crore for various poultry schemes including setting up of poultry clusters in seven districts on Friday.

An official release said she has directed s

Soon, lighthouses in Chennai, Mamallapuram, Rameswaram and Muttam in Kanyakumari would be developed into tourist destinations. “We are exploring the possibility of turning select lighthouses into tour

He may have been a forward on the hockey field, but it is to be seen whether the sport will take him forward in life. P. Damu, 21 from a slum in Sathyamurthi Nagar, in Vyasarpadi, has been working har

A college girl, who killed her father for attempting to rape her at knife-point, got a reprieve with the Madras HC quashing the entire criminal proceedings against her pending before the judicial magi

Right to speedy and fair trial has been recognised by the courts as a fundamental right of an accused, so that the accused does not suffer on the ground of delay.

But in some sensational cases, ther

Indian football might still be nothing more than a spectator at the FIFA World Cup or the Olympics, but it is not the case with the SAFF Games or the Nehru Cup.

The national side coached by Dutch in

A visual treat awaited people of Coimbatore, Nilgiris and other parts of western Tamil Nadu up in the skies as a giant halo formed around the sun on Friday morning.

The beautiful celestial halo, col

Five persons, including an engineering college student and an engineering graduate, were arrested for allegedly kidnapping a youth and his cousin from Tambaram sanitarium. The kidnap attempt came abou