Chennai Super Kings CEO Gurunath Meiyappan left his father-in-law and BCCI chief N Srinivasan's Kodaikanal residence on Friday afternoon. Sources say he will take a flight to Mumbai from the Madurai airport. Sources say Meiyappan consulted his lawyers and has decided to appear for questioning by the Mumbai Police. ...
01:58 PM, May 24, 2013
Bangalore: Investigators have claimed a breakthrough in the Bangalore blast case and three people were arrested from Chennai earlier on Tuesday in connection with the case. Tirunelveli residents Peer Mohideen and Basheer were picked up from a lodge in Chennai. The third person is a resident of Madurai. Police sources say that the trio is suspected to have provided the motorbike used in the blast. Strong leads have also emerged...
07:59 PM, Apr 23, 2013
The star kid will be next seen in the Tamil flick 'Pattathu Yaanai'. ...
03:32 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The dancer won the best choreography for Kamal Haasan's multilingual spy-thriller 'Vishwaroopam'. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 18, 2013
A mentally ill woman was reportedly raped by a person posing as a coffee seller at Madurai railway station early Wednesday, police said. The 32-year-old woman was waiting with her mother to board a train to Elanchi village after treatment in Madurai when the man approached them and offered her mother coffee laced with sedatives. ...
10:07 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Police along with Intelligence Bureau officials on Sunday conducted search operations in some areas of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on information that certain persons having links with the Hyderabad blasts had come to the seashore town. The tip-off was received from Hyderabad Police and Intelligence agencies and search operations were conducted in select areas, police sources said. ...
05:05 PM, Feb 24, 2013
A man was on Sunday arrested for allegedly beating his wife with an air-gun, causing an injury to her ear lobe, police said. ...
03:21 AM, Feb 18, 2013
Amid stiff opposition to the release of his movie 'Vishwaroopam' on DTH format, actor Kamal Haasan today complained to police he has been receiving threats that the movie would be pirated and power supply to the cinemas screening it will be suspended. ...
01:30 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Madurai police on Wednesday issued summons to Union Steel Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi once again in connection with the multi-crore granite mining scam. ...
01:43 PM, Dec 26, 2012
A new-born girl baby was found abandoned in a textile shopper bag in a coach of the Pandiyan Express train at neighbouring Dindigul on Thursday night. ...
04:28 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Union Steel Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi on Friday surrendered at a Madurai court three days after being granted anticipatory bail in the granite scam case by the Madras High Court. ...
11:05 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Madurai: As part of gearing up for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress has issued stringent norms for selecting candidates, a senior party leader said on Wednesday. The party has launched a mission of selecting a panel of three members for each of the parliamentary constituencies, and one among the three, most probably, would be fielded as candidate, Rudraraju Padma Raju, Andhra Pradesh Government Whip, who had been entrusted...
01:43 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Madurai: The senior pontiff of a 1,500-year-old Saivite Mutt, who sacked self-styled controversial godman Nithyananda as his successor, on Sunday said the trust formed jointly by them had been dissolved. "The Madurai Adheenam Trust has been dissolved in the backdrop of HR& CE department stating before the Principal Sub court here it was set up without obtaining its permission and the Mutt's objective was to take control and manage property...
07:40 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Chennai: Controversial godman Swami Nithyananda was on Saturday removed as the successor to a 1500-year-old mutt in Madurai. He faces several criminal charges, including rape. Nityananda was appointed as the successor at the mutt in August this year, but the decision had received widespread criticism, including from the Tamil Nadu government. The senior pontiff of the Madurai Atheenam announced that Nithyananda had been sacked as the junior pontiff and also...
11:13 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Chennai: Swami Nithyananda has been sacked as the successor to a 1500-year-old Mutt in Madurai. Nithyananda was sacked by a senior pontiff and is facing criminal charges including rape after a US-based woman and others alleged sexual exploitation. Nithyananda was appointed as the successor at the Madurai Mutt in April but his appointment had received widespread criticism, including from the Tamil Nadu government. Nithyananda's own ashram is located in Bangalore,...
09:19 AM, Oct 20, 2012
Chennai: The Rs 16,000 crore granite mining scam in Tamil Nadu is creating ripples among the high profile. Union Minister Alagiri's daughter-in-law Anusha appeared before the Madurai Police on Sunday. This comes days after the Madras High Court dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of Anusha's husband Durai Dayanidhi in connection with the illegal granite quarrying case. Durai Dayanidhi is among the 60 people named in the FIR related to the...
01:07 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Madurai: A five-member gang kidnapped two employees of a Kerala-based private finance firm and looted 37 kg of gold valued at Rs ten crore from its locker after stealing the keys of its branch office here, police said on Saturday. Police said the gang first kidnapped Balasubramanian, manager of the Karimedu branch of the Muthoot Finance Corp in the city on Thursday night, and snatched a set of locker keys...
01:28 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Madurai: A mysterious fever that broke out in Periyachittulottipatti village near Peraiyur taluk in the disrict has claimed four lives within a fortnight, Health Department officials said here on Thursday. A special team from healh department had been rushed there following reports that 200 persons were afflicted by the fever. Those affected with the fever were experiencing irritation in the eyes, head ache and body pain. Initial investigation revealed that...
01:02 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Chennai: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court bench dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi on Tuesday in connection with the illegal granite quarrying case. Durai Dayanidhi is among the 60 people named in the FIR related to the illegal granite mining case. Durai was the director of one the eight mining companies implicated in the case. The police had issued a...
11:02 AM, Sep 25, 2012
Madurai: The Rs 16,000 crore granite mining scam in Tamil Nadu is creating ripples among the high profile. Over 50 people have been arrested and the search is on for union minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi. Durai Dayanidhi is on the wanted list of the Tamil Nadu police for his alleged role in the illegal granite mining scam. A leaked report by the former Madurai collector blew the lid...
07:56 AM, Sep 17, 2012
