Janakiraman

A group of women readers at the Chennai Book Fair sparked the creation of 'Nayagi,' an initiative celebrating women writers and achievers. Their events have highlighted early 20th-century literary figures, wives of freedom fighters, and women in arts, with lectures published in a book. Nayagi aims to bring these impactful women to a wider audience.

An inspector attached to the Seven Wells police station has been pulled up for not taking action against a rowdy, K janakiraman, who was caught for creating a nuisance on Sunday morning. janakiraman was murdered by three men later in the day.

The mortal remains of former Puducherry chief minister R V janakiraman, who passed away here on Monday after a prolonged illness, was laid to rest with full state honours and with 21-gun salute in his native village -- Alathur -- in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday morning.

Former chief minister and DMK leader R V janakiraman passed away in a private hospital here in the early hours of Monday after a prolonged old age-related illness.

Questioning, introspecting and analysing the woman’s place in society was author T janakiraman’s unique capability at a time when education and independence were a distant dream for many.

Four people including an MTC bus driver were killed and three others were injured after a private luxury bus smashed into a tanker at Kavaraipettai in Tiruvallur district on the Kolkata-Chennai National Highway on Monday morning. Traffic was affected for nearly three hours on the busy stretch after the accident.

Binu Pappachan, who has multiple cases pending against him and is infamous for the birthday bash he threw for criminal offenders in the city in 2018, has been arrested for threatening a courier delivery agent in Teynampet.

Chennai, Nov 16() Leading online matrimonial portal, Matrimony.com has reported a 63.8 per cent rise in the consolidated net profits to Rs 191.63 million for the second quarter ending September 30, 2017. The city-based firm had registered consolidated net profits at Rs 116.

A 60-year-old Virar man committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train hours after finding his daughter hanging in her bedroom. On June 28, Muthukrishnan had an argument with Manjula who expressed her displeasure over a re-marriage.

Neighbours hacked to death a soothsayer they accused of causing a series of suicides in Choolai on Thursday.

Three days after a 48-year-old man employed at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) was hacked to death by a gang near Peravallur, police arrested a priest and six others in the case on Wednesday.

An AIADMK candidate for the urban local body polls in Kancheepuram was found hanging at his house on Thursday. His father lodged a complaint alleging that his son ended his life due to threats from political opponents.

A historysheeter, wanted in over 14 robbery cases, was arrested after he was caught by angry commuters when he attempted to flee after snatching a gold chain on a suburban train at Moore Market Complex railway station on Thursday.

The mortal remains of former Puducherry chief minister R V janakiraman, who passed away here on Monday after a prolonged illness, were laid to rest with full state honours and with 21-gun salute in his native village, Alathur, in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday morning.

High drama prevailed at Vellore collector office on Tuesday when a 38-year-old man attempted suicide demanding action against his father and brother who didn’t want him to get married and who didn’t want to give him a share in the ancestral property.

21 lakh, a result of heists in as many as five homes in Perungudi.