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Superstar Rajinikanth

Rajinikanth-BJP alliance will ensure positive change: S Gurumurthy

Many AIADMK seniors still believe that Rajinikanth will not get into politics.

16 Jan 2018 6:10 AM IST

The new set of guidelines issued by Animal Welfare Board of India to conduct Jallikattu. (Photo: DC)

Jallikattu is identity of Tamil culture: Pon Radhakrishnan

Mr Radhakrishnan said and urged the enthusiastic youth who participated in the event to be cautious and not to hurt the...

16 Jan 2018 6:07 AM IST

Five Coimbatore-based college students create an art work of saint Tiruvalluvar to commemorate Tiruvalluvar Day observed on Monday. The team of girls used match sticks to write the 1,330 couplets. (Photo: DC)

Students make Tiruvalluvar replica with 730 match sticks

Using a stick pen, 1,330 Tirukkural couplets were written on them and placed in order on the art work.

16 Jan 2018 6:05 AM IST

Tamil Nadu wants Centre to declare Tirukkural as national book

Mr Pandiarajan said the government had also requested Unesco to accord world heritage status to Tirukkural.

16 Jan 2018 6:03 AM IST

Madras High Court

Don't allow wife to rob husband: Madras High Court

The petition was disposed of on July 29, 2011, granting monthly maintenance of Rs 5,000 to the wife and Rs 2,500 to the...

16 Jan 2018 1:59 AM IST

Madras High Court

PIL against converting agricultural land into layouts dismissed

The bench said it was the case of the petitioner that agriculture in Puducherry was going from bad to worse.

16 Jan 2018 1:57 AM IST

He escaped by jumping off a running train with his handcuffs on near Itarsi railway station, police said today. (Photo:

Chennai: Woman held for theft dies in police custody

She complained of chest pain during interrogation: Police.

16 Jan 2018 1:55 AM IST

J.Innocent Divya, Collector of Nilgiris, feeds sugarcane to a kumki elephant to mark Yaanai-Pongal celebrations (Photo: DC)

Yaanai Pongal woos tourists in MTR woods

The other kumkis lodged in three different camps, were also given pongal on the occasion.

16 Jan 2018 1:50 AM IST

A woman tries to catch a hen.

Novel jallikattu for women in Tiruchengode

On Sunday, Pongal' day this year, a large number of people crowded around this novel jallikattu for women' venue in...

16 Jan 2018 1:48 AM IST

Also, special buses are to be operated from Perungalathur and Central railway station to help passengers returning from their native places after Pongal holidays.

Special buses to connect tourist spots

The buses will be operated from 3.30 am.

16 Jan 2018 1:46 AM IST

A section of foreigners from New Zealand and US has come to witness jallikattu at Suriyur near Tiruchy on Monday. (Photo: DC)

30 bullfighters hurt in Sulur during jallikattu event

At least 15 foreign tourists, nine from New Zealand and six from the US also came to witness the Tamils' traditional...

16 Jan 2018 1:44 AM IST

The net result is that accidents claim on an average 11 lives and injure 117 daily, according to the statistics of the State Crime Records Bureau.

Minor boy driving leads to mishap, 6 dead in Krishnagiri

This mishap occurred at around 4 pm, near the power grid office at Kuruparathapalli, on the Chennai-Bengaluru national...

16 Jan 2018 1:37 AM IST