City pediatricians have raised an alarm on meningitis and have urged parents to get their babies vaccinated against the dreadful bacterial brain fever that has a high mortality rate of 16 to 32 per ce

The state government on Tuesday has agreed to consider the tribal community’s long pending demands including issuance of title deeds under the Forest Rights Act and filling of teachers’ vacancies in r

Two school students drowned in separate incidents in the southern suburb on Tuesday.

The students were identified as L Kannan, 14, and R. Lokeswaran, 7.

The body of Kannan, who had left his Chromep

The Madras high court on Tuesday directed the state home secretary, Thiruvannamalai district collector and police superintendent, among other officials, to take immediate steps to remove all encroachm

The Madras high court on Tuesday declined to entertain a writ petition Varaaki of Iyappathangal seeking to direct the managing director of TASMAC among other government authorities to probe irregulari

Two years back, the city corporation announced in its budget that it would establish new clock towers in Chennai, but nothing has materialised.

At the same time, the civic body continues to remain i

Clock towers that are now mostly admired for their artistic creation once served an important purpose.
Till early 20th century, most people did not have watches or clocks.

The first clock didn’t hav

The Madurai bench of Madras High Court has ordered the state government to pay Rs 10 lakh to the family of a man who died in police custody at Manapparai in 2000.

Passing the order Monday on a writ p

“I lose confidence as the deadline is drawing to a close,” an anguished Asha Alex, wife of the abducted Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon, said on Monday night.

Asha, fighting for the release

Frustrated by the continued cold treatment by the Centre to her several requests for help in various fields, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa charged the UPA government on Tuesday for neglecting Tamil N