A 63-year-old priest of a church in Coimbatore was arrested on Saturday on charges of attempting to outrage the modesty of a woman during prayers. John Mark, the priest of CSI Church, was arrested on a complaint from the 48-year-old woman, police said. ...
11:00 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The Sri Lanka issue has once again reached the Centre's door. DMK chief Karunanidhi said that the government has not yet responded to his threat of pulling out of the UPA government over the Lanka human rights issue. He has demanded that India must push for changes in the UN resolution on Lanka demanding an independent enquiry into alleged war crimes by the Lankan Army. ...
01:40 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Colleges in Tamil Nadu have been asked to remain closed till further orders in view of the growing student protests on alleged human rights violations against Tamils in Sri Lanka. The protests are significant as Tamil parties try to put pressure on India to vote against Lanka in the UN human rights council later this month. ...
08:40 AM, Mar 16, 2013
A key witness in the 2G trial has testified in favour of DMK MP and accused Kanimozhi. P Amritam, the Chief Financial Officer of KTV told the court that Kanimozhi joined KTV at her father Karunanidhi's behest and that she was not involved in the company's day to day affairs. ...
06:16 PM, Mar 15, 2013
A day after India lodged a strong protest against detention of its fishermen by Sri Lankan Navy, a court in the island nation on Friday ordered the release of 34 fishermen, officials of a fishermen association here said. ...
06:01 PM, Mar 15, 2013
The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday summoned the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner over the spate of arrests of Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy. According to a PTI report, the total number of fishermen arrested by Sri Lanka in the past 24 hours has gone up to 53, after 34 more were arrested on Thursday. ...
04:51 PM, Mar 14, 2013
The DMK on Wednesday again asked the Indian government to support a US-sponsored resolution at a UN body attacking Sri Lanka's human rights record. ...
04:08 AM, Mar 14, 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
A third year polytechnic student on Tuesday allegedly kidnapped a woman lecturer, with whom he had a relationship, after barging into her house at nearby Iraichalkulam and attacking her parents, police said. ...
02:27 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Sixteen fishermen, arrested by Sri Lankan Naval personnel for allegedly fishing in the island nation's international maritime boundary on March 3, have been released and will return to India on Tuesday night, the Tamil Nadu government said. ...
10:14 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Hundreds of DMK workers, including its Treasurer MK Stalin, were arrested on Tuesday as part of the dawn-to-dusk general strike by the party-backed pro-Sri Lankan Tamil outfit TESO which evoked mixed response with normal life by and large remaining unaffected in Tamil Nadu. ...
04:53 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Stepping up pressure on the Cauvery water issue, Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday said it was "absolutely" essential on the part of the Centre to put in place a monitoring mechanism to ensure that the state gets its rightful share of water during the year. ...
12:33 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The dawn-to-dusk general strike called by DMK-backed pro-Sri Lankan Tamil outfit TESO began on Tuesday morning with no untoward incident reported so far. ...
10:40 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Flight operations were affected after a minor fire broke out in the air traffic control room at Chennai airport in the wee hours on Tuesday. The flames were noticed by the staff at around 2.45 am, official sources said, adding five five tenders were pressed into service and the blaze was doused within 20 minutes. ...
07:20 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Crippling power cuts in Tamil Nadu are shutting factories and threatening an industrial debt crisis that is wrecking its second-largest city's plan to become India's next business Mecca. Electricity shortages are emerging as one of the biggest brakes on India's ambitions to rise up the ranks of the world's major economies, and match regional rival China as a manufacturing powerhouse. ...
10:23 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday declared she would resort to legal action if the central government does not set up the necessary mechanism to implement the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal's (CWDT) final award after gazetting it. ...
12:41 AM, Mar 10, 2013
Sri Lanka on Friday denied that its navy had fired at Indian fishermen off Tamil Nadu. The Sri Lankan High Commission said none of its naval craft fired at "any fishing vessel or any other object" on Wednesday or Thursday. ...
05:02 AM, Mar 09, 2013
India on Wednesday dismissed as "totally baseless" Sri Lankan media reports on alleged radiation leaks at Kudankulam nuclear power station in Tamil Nadu. ...
02:26 AM, Mar 07, 2013
According to Karunanidhi, the Sri Lankan government's lie that the war was stopped in April 2009 itself is a war crime. ...
01:06 AM, Mar 07, 2013
India is likely to vote against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council later in March, sources said on Tuesday. The US-sponsored resolution is like to be "procedural" and will not be "intrusive remedy", the sources added. ...
06:15 PM, Mar 05, 2013
