Aug 30, 2010: Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is leaving for Sri Lanka on a four-day visit for a first-hand assessment of India’s assistance to the nearly three lakh internally displaced Tamils in the island nation.

Besides calling on President Mahinda Rajapaksa and higher authorities, Nirupama is scheduled to travel to some of the areas where the [...]

Aug 30, 2010: Security provided to AIADMK general secretary and former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has been stepped up by the police after she received a death threat against addressing a rally in Madurai.

After Jaya TV, a pro AIADMK television channel, received the threat letter Saturday night, police posted Armed Policemen, drawn from the [...]

Aug 30, 2010: Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday laid the foundation stone for the Rs 1,082 crore Outer Ring Road to ease traffic congestion in the city. He also laid the foundation for a few other projects at a function in Pattabiram near Ambattur.

The first phase of the Outer Ring Road, covering [...]

Aug 30, 2010: Tirunelveli Anna University Vice Chancellor S Kaliappan, who was allegedly assaulted by a DMK MLA during the recent convocation, called on AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa on Sunday.

“It is a courtesy call,” Kaliappan said. His wife was also present during the meeting. This surprise development has led to ripples in the [...]

Aug 30, 2010: In a shocking incident, eighteen inmates of a juvenile home, including one boy accused of murder, escaped from the facility at Kellys in Chennai on Saturday night. According to police, the boys made their getaway after bending the bars of a window.

On a complaint from Juvenile Home officials, police registered a [...]

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Friday said service to the people was paramount in his mind and that he had been striving every second for their welfare.

Inaugurating the District Collector’s conference at the Secretariat in Chennai, he said, “People, irresepective of whether they are born in rural or urban areas, should get all [...]

Former Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa on Friday alleged that Chief Minister M Karunanidhi had encroached upon Corporation land behind his Gopalapuram residence in Chennai.

In a statement, the Opposition Leader in the Assembly alleged that the Chief Minister, after becoming Public Works Minister in 1967, had enroached upon 780 sqft of land, [...]

Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister E V K S Elangovan on Friday said that his party’s alliance with the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu “is strong at present.”

Speaking to reporters in Tiruvannamalai, he however said that emotions of the party cadre in the alliance issue had been communicated to the high command and [...]

Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister and DMK treasurer M K Stalin has hinted that more activists from the main opposition AIADMK camp would join his party.

Speaking at a meeting in Erode, he said that a number of senior functionaries of AIADMK had already quit the party and joined DMK. “This trend would continue in the [...]

Chennai Corporation Mayor M Subramanian on Friday said that the Chennai Metro Rail project is on schedule and will be ready by 2015. The first phase is expected to be commissioned in 2013, he said.

Speaking at a function organised by the Sindhi Chamber of Commerce, the Mayor said the work on the first phase of [...]