Madras HC imposes cost of Rs 5K on Nellai civic chief
The Madras high court bench on Wednesday imposed a cost of Rs 5,000 on Tirunelveli corporation commissioner R Lakshmi for not obeying its order to pay all the benefits to a sanitary inspector,...
View ArticleActivists cheer removal of 309 IPC
Psychiatrists, professional counsellors and social workers here welcomed the central government decision to scrap Section 309 IPC.
View ArticleEncourage traditional 'neerkattis' to save village water bodies, urge experts
Neerkattis or water managers, who have played a historical role in the care and protection of water bodies in the villages, say they are now a neglected lot.
View Article6 express trains to run on electric traction from Dec end
The Southern Railway will throw open the newly-electrified Virudhunagar - Vanchimaniachchi - Tuticorin and Vanchimaniachchi - Tirunelveli sections by December end following the completion of the...
View ArticleWife seeks CBI probe in Ramajayam murder case
The wife of K N Ramajayam, brother of former DMK minister K N Nehru, has moved a petition seeking CBI probe into the murder case of her husband, which is at present handled by the CBCID, Trichy.
View Article4 held under NSA, 1 under Goondas Act
Police arrested history-sheeter Varichiyur Selvam, 46, son of Karuppiah of Kambar Street, Varichyur here for acting in a manner prejudicial to the maintenance of security of the state and prejudicial...
View ArticleCopious rainfall in catchment areas augment inflow
Dispelling farmer worries about depleting water level in reservoirs, heavy rains on Wednesday night significantly augmented water inflow to Mullaperiyar and Vaigai dams - lifeline of five districts...
View ArticlePlea against Indian cricket team's Australia tour referred to division of...
A single judge of the Madras high court on Friday referred to a division bench a petition that sought stay on Indian cricket team’s participation in matches in Australia in the wake of the tragic death...
View ArticleMadurai collector to form team for Vaigai river restoration
Taking part in a valedictory function of ‘Water Week’ conducted by a Madurai-based NGO, he said both the district administration and Madurai Corporation should work together to restore the river.
View ArticleMadras HC moved to build pathway to dalit graveyard
Madurai-based P Prasath filed the petition contending that there was no pathway to a dalit graveyard in A Sudarajapuram village in Melur taluk.
View ArticleMadurai collector asks officials to sensitize students on child marriage
Madurai district collector L Subramanian on Friday asked officials to sensitize school and college students on child marriage and establish informants in villages so that such marriages could be...
View ArticleMan stabs girl to death for refusing his marriage proposal
A man in the Madurai district of Tamil Nadu stabbed a girl to death on Friday as she had declined his marriage proposal.
View ArticleQuack couple arrested in Ramanathapuram
Police arrested on Friday a couple who had been practising medicine at Sayalkudi in Ramanathapuram for the past 20 years.
View ArticleExcise officer arrested for taking bribe from Tasmac employees in Virudhunagar
Sleuths of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) arrested an assistant commissioner of excise in Virudhunagar district on Friday.
View ArticleAllow us to export granite: Palanisamy’s son
Granite baron P Palanisamy’s son and partner of PRP Granites and PRP Exports P Senthilkumar, 39, on Friday moved the Madurai bench of the Madras high court seeking to allow them to export granites...
View ArticleAnti-corruption movement to implead itself in PRP case
The Anti-Corruption Movement in Madurai has decided to implead itself in the petition filed by the granite firms (PRP Granites and Exports) seeking to allow them to export granites quarried in other...
View ArticleBritish navy detains 14 Indian fishermen near Diego Garcia
Fisheries officials have confirmed that a fishing vessel with crew of 14 fishermen from Tamil Nadu and Kerala has been apprehended by the British navy near Diego Garcia Island in British Indian Ocean...
View ArticleDepartments join hands to stop child marriages
Despite district administration’s stringent measures against child marriages, the practice continues, mainly in the rural pockets here.
View ArticleFormation of a trust mooted to restore polluted Vaigai
Citing the work of the Chennai river restoration trust, K Phanindra Reddy, principal secretary, municipal administration and water supply department of Tamil Nadu, called on the district administration...
View ArticleUsilampatti woman stabbed to death by relative
A youth from Cumbum in Theni district stabbed a woman from Usilampatti in Madurai on Friday after the woman reportedly refused to marry him.
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