With half the monsoon season gone, the state has received only 10 per cent excess rainfall. Madurai (- 39 per cent) and Tirupur (- 21 per cent) are already reeling under deficit rainfall for the seaso

An armed gang late on Wednesday night waylaid the car of a senior AIADMK functionary in Sivagangai and hacked him, his nine-year-old son, six-year-old daughter and the driver. The little girl is fight

Browsing the net to check on his bank account during a trip to the Gulf way back in 2009, marine engineer Rajinikanth got the shock of his life when he found Rs 2.82 lakh disappear from his State Bank

The city is looking at a shortage of at least 40 million gallons of drinking water supply during the coming summer.

The Water Board will be forced to reduce the duration of supply even in the core c

The election commission has launched a voter frie­n­dly ‘track your application’ facility for the first time to enable applicants to know the status of their application for incl­u­sion in the voters’

The number of patients coming in with fire cracker related injuries to eye hospitals in the city went up from around 40 on Tuesday to more than 75 on Wednesday.

This is just the second day of the Di

With the government notifying rules under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012, any sexual encounter with a person below 18 will be deemed rape whether it is with or without consen

Students of the premier National Law School India University are extending legal assistance to the inmates of Parappana Agrahara Central Prison, and have helped more than 25 women prisoners till now.

The police here has given a clean chit to superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who was accused of performing with “skimpily-dressed” women at the inauguration of an Emmanuel Silks showroom at the Kaloor Internat

One of the two men from Kerala detained by security agencies at Chennai airport after they took pictures of the interior of Dreamliner last month, was arrested on Tuesday evening when he tried to take