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14-yr-old Bihar gang-raped in moving car girl
TWO youths raped a 14-year-old girl in a running car in Bihar's Saharsa district.
U'khand govt reduces weight of school bags
THE Uttarakhand has undertaken a new initiative to standardize school bags for Classes 1-12 to reduce students' physical and mental burden.
Rebels in Haryana look to upset BJP's electoral applecart
REBELS are threatening the ruling BJP in at least 15 of Haryana's 90 seats voting for which will take place on October 5.
Manoj Verma, anti-Maoist ops expert, new Kolkata Police chief
COUNTER-insurgency and anti-Maoist operations specialist, senior IPS officer Manoj Kumar Verma, is the new commissioner of Kolkata Police, replacing Vineet Goyal.
Factional fight deepens in Gujarat BJP as former minister writes letter to Modi
AMID escalating factional tensions in Gujarat BJP, former cabinet minister Jawahar Chavda has accused the Junagarh party president of misconduct in a letter to the Prime Minister.
ED files laundering case, to probe Bangladeshis' infiltration into J'khand
THE Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case to probe an instance of suspected infiltration of some Bangladeshi women into Jharkhand, officials said.
Phase 1: 219 candidates in 24 seats
Direct fight between NC-Congress and BJP in Jammu, multi-cornered contests in the Valley
Simultaneous poll plan in the offing, says Shah
THE government on Tuesday said a plan is in the offing to implement simultaneous polls in the country.
Case closed against 30 Army men in Nagaland op
THE Supreme Court on Tuesday closed the criminal proceedings against 30 Army personnel accused of killing 13 civilians (tribals) in a 2021 botched-up military operation to ambush militants in Nagaland's Mon district.
NIA-CBI-GRP joint scheme to keep railway network safe
UNION Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the CBI, NIA, railway police and the MHA are jointly working on a security scheme for the protection of railway network to ensure that there is no sabotage.
Modi to attend Quad, UNGA beginning Sept 21
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi will pay a three-day visit to the US beginning September 21 to attend the annual Quad Summit and address the 'Summit of the Future' at the UN General Assembly.
'Manipur peace roadmap worked out'
Amit Shah says clashes in the state are racial & they can be resolved through dialogue
Discipline leaders making ‘objectionable, violent' remarks on Rahul: Kharge to PM
CITING 'objectionable' and 'violent' statements by the members of the ruling alliance targeting Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discipline his leaders.
MRC: Don't have rental dues, govt allegations baseless
TAMIL Nadu government's allegations about violations by the Madras Race Club are baseless and the club has paid all the lease rentals at the contracted rate in advance, an official statement of the club said on Tuesday.
Suspected case of monkeypox in KL test results awaited
TRIGGERING concern, a 38year-old man from Edavanna in Malappuram has been admittedto the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Manjeri, with suspectedsymptoms of mpox (monkeypox).
Children petrified as goons attack private school van in road rage incident in K'taka
IN a case of road rage, a group of men in an SUV attacked the driver of a private school van and smashed the windows of the vehicle, even as schoolchildren sitting inside the van watched in horror.
Two years after it was damaged, Periyar statue reinstated in Villupuram district
TWO years after it was damaged in an accident, the statue of Dravidian stalwart and social reformer E V Ramaswamy, popularly known as Periyar, was reinstated in Villupuram, on the 146th birth anniversary of the revolutionary leader on Monday.
Tanker lorry mows down bike, 4 of family killed
FOUR of a family, including two children, travelling on a bike were killed on the spot after a tanker lorry mowed down the two-wheeler in Tirunelveli city on Tuesday.
Debt: Couple attempts to end life along with 3 kids
A couple, along with their three children, attempted to die by suicide allegedly due to debt burden in Urapanur village near Thirumangalam on Monday night.
Quack couple held by Coimbatore cops
TWO quacks were arrested on Monday for allegedly providing allopathic treatment and collecting ₹2.7 lakh as a fee from an individual in August 2023.
KL trucks discharge fish waste on Pollachi roads
Two truck drivers arrested; four vehicles seized in September so far
Newly-weds gift 'moi' cash for cancer facility
A newly married couple from Theni donated ₹1.91 lakh they received from guests as gift money at their wedding, to the construction of a cancer facility in Madurai on Tuesday.
2 arrested for setting hut afire in Ayanavaram
TWO men were arrested for setting a hut on fire in Ayanavaram following a heated argument on Tuesday.
B'desh woman held for staying in India with forged docus
POLICE arrested a 26-year-old Bangladeshi woman staying in India with forged documents after rescuing her from prostitution.
Chennai sizzles at 39.2° C, new high for September in 22 years
CHENNAIITES are enduring one of the worst heat spells in September.
Court bins 20-yr-old drug export case, says NCB does not understand Acts
3 Chennai men, Mumbai trade partners were booked for exporting anti-anxiety drugs to US
300 cops check for drugs at tenements in Perumbakkam, return empty handed
TWO weeks after nearly half a kilo of ganja was seized from 15 students following raids at 500 houses of a gated community in Potheri, the Tambaram police conducted a raid at 1,000 houses at the Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board (TNUHDB) tenements in Perumbakkam on Tuesday.
Change in strategy helps Ooty Aavin taste success
THE Nilgiris unit of aavin has started to make profit in the last four months after it changed its procurement strategy, reduced procurement price by ₹20 per litre, and through better promotion of its products. Over the last three months, the unit has made a profit of ₹1.5 lakh (June), ₹2.5 lakh (July), and ₹ 5 lakh (august), respectively, sources said.
With one more death, toll in Madurai women's hostel inferno increases to three
ANOTHER person succumbed to burn injuries after the inferno at the unauthorised working women’s hostel in Katrapalayam Street in madurai city on September 12, taking the death toll to three. The victim was identified as J Pushpa (58), a resident of madurai.
Vijay pays tribute, BJP says he's embracing Dravidian ideology
ACTOR and TVK president Vijay on Tuesday paid floral tributes to the statue of Periyar EV Ramasamy on his 146th birth anniversary at Periyar Thidal in Chennai in what is seen as a statement on where he stands ideologically in the political spectrum.