M. Dhanalakshmi

Farmers in the district have come out against the state government's move to set up a mini stadium on a poromboke land spread across 38 acres at Velliyampatty village in Yercaud assembly constituency. The village is situated 30km from Salem city.

The rural police formed seven special teams to nab the killer of a 55-year-old destitute woman, who was found dead at Pukkulam bus stop in Udumalpet on Friday. The deceased, M Dhanalakshmi of Kamaraj Nagar in Udumalpet, had been staying at the bus stop for the last five years.

AIADMK general secretary and chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday announced her candidates for Kerala assembly elections.

A 36-year-old man has been sentenced to a two-year jail term for rash and negligent driving, without a valid licence, which caused the death of a woman and injured three others in Puducherry 11 years ago. Judicial magistrate II M Dhanalakshmi also slapped a fine of Rs 7,000 M Mohanraj.

Two days after a 17-year-old Irula girl was attacked in front of revenue officials at T Parangini village in Villupuram district, an FIR was registered by the Kiliyanur police on Monday night.

A house near Kumbakonam in Thanjavur district was looted by miscreants, who decamped with gold ornaments weighing 28 sovereigns on Friday night. Police have registered a case and are investigating.

The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has directed the Tamil Nadu government to issue Rs 3 lakh compensation to a man who was assaulted and harassed by the Salem police in 2013.

Three people, including the mother of a minor girl and a woman matchmaker, were arrested for conducting a child marriage on Tuesday.The bridegroom was also arrested by the police.

A single mother, who was harassed by Pazhavanthangal police to ‘admit’ that her college-going son had been involved in a robbery, was granted a compensation of 2.9 lakh by the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC).

The prime accused in the murder of former minister V M C Sivakumar on Monday surrendered before a Puducherry court.

People in a village near Sriperumbudur, 50km from Chennai, lynched two burglars on Wednesday morning when they tried to escape with valuables from a house.

Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths have issued a look-out notice against the daughter of a senior police officer, who was named along with her father in a land-grabbing case. CCB sources she is believed to be living abroad with her family.

The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) plans to replicate its TN-model alliance with BJP in Kerala and become an important player in the border districts of Idukki, Palakkad and Pathanamthitta for the upcoming assembly election.

Senior police officer, additional director general of police (ADGP) K Thukkaiandi was placed under suspension on Friday, a day before his retirement.

After a major setback in Devikulam constituency in the district, the NDA candidate alleged that he didn’t get a single vote from BJP in the assembly election despite the Tamil Nadu-model AIADMK-BJP alliance.

A 17-year-old girl from the irula community from Villupuram district, who had applied for a community certificate, accused four vanniyar men of slapping and pushing her down on Saturday. The men had accused 30 families in T Parangirni village of claiming to be irula members only to avail community privileges.

Seven years after the disappearance of a minor girl, Coimbatore rural police have made a breakthrough and re-opened the case.

Lack of safety at schools has again come under the scanner after a Class 5 student, B Lokesh, was found dead on his school campus in Nandiambakkam near Ponneri.