Chennai: A woman was killed and her husband severely injured after their car crashed into a parked truck following a tyre burst near Avadi on Wednesday morning.The deceased, Shalini, and her husband, Thiagu, 42, a professor at a private university, were returning home to Govindarajapuram near Vellinagar in Guduvanchery after visiting Siruvapuri Murugan Temple for…
CHENNAI: A case has been registered against Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president Vijay and several party functionaries for alleged violations of election rules during a recent campaign. According to police, the action was initiated following a complaint by an Election Flying Squad official, who alleged that Vijay conducted a roadshow instead of the event for…
CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin raised a black flag and burned a copy of the delimitation bill in Namakkal to show his protest against the proposed delimitation bill, which is set to be tabled in the Parliament special session commencing today. The protest follows the “stern warning” issued to the BJP govt at the…
Chennai: A drunk man entered a 17-year-old girl’s house and attacked her with a sickle near Minjur, Tiruvallur district, on Tuesday. She suffered cuts on her right palm, elbow, forehead and the back of her head.Police, who are yet to establish motive, said 27-year-old Rolex alias Delhi Babu sneaked in through the back entrance at…
Chennai: Madras high court on Wednesday reserved its order on two PILs alleging 397 crore corruption in the procurement of transformers for Tangedco when V Senthilbalaji was the state electricity minister. Concluding the final hearing, the first bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan reserved its orders.The case pertains to…
Chennai: An old two-storey house painted yellow reveals a plaque with the name Kavignar Tamildasan at Pillayar Koil Street in Triplicane. Inside the house, a man clad in a white shirt and trousers is busy taking notes for a campaign speech to be delivered in the evening for DMK at Royapuram.Tamildasan, 72, who has been…
Chennai: Railway Protection Force and police seized cash, gold and banned tobacco products during checks across city.At Chennai Central, RPF personnel detained a 27-year-old man from Odisha and seized 60 lakh in cash after he failed to produce valid documents on Wednesday. Santosh Ram, who arrived by the Howrah Mail, was handed over to the…
Chennai: The Metrozone project in Koyambedu has joined the long list of projects under the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) scanner for suspected violation of the subvention scheme and cheating of homebuyers by the bank-developer nexus.The economic offences wing of the CBI, Delhi, has registered a case against Ozone Projects Pvt Ltd, the developer of…
Chennai: A prank turned fatal for a 19-year-old guest worker who succumbed to injuries after his co-worker pumped high-pressure air from an air compressor through his rectum in Gummidipoondi. The deceased, identified as Chandra Sekar of Bihar, was employed at an industrial unit in Gummidipoondi Sipcot and lived at Paapankuppam village.Police said another guest worker,…
Chennai: A group of more than 100 fishermen in Srinivasapuram on Marina showed black flags to DMK MLA Mylai D Velu, who is seeking re-election from Mylapore constituency.Velu, however, said the protest was orchestrated by the AIADMK and the BJP, who had “sent their partymen to masquerade as fishermen”. Real fishermen would not be misled…
