G.C. Shekhar

Embarrassed by the involvement of the two party functionaries in the crime, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami expelled the duo from the AIADMK and announced a compensation of Rs.5 lakh to the girl’s family.

The failure of the authorities to regulate the traffic of retail vegetable vendors in and out of the huge market is the reason for the spread of the virus, health officials said.

With no shows and no ticket sale, the performers and animals were facing starvation. But the locals decided to step in.

The Coimbatore police arrested Andrew Sam Raja Pandian, founder of a portal called SimpliCity, based on a complaint by an official of the Coimbatore Corporation

Nearly 15,000 government doctors have been on strike for a range of demands including periodic salary raise and promotions.

V Epiq, the new cinema hall does justice to its name by sporting a 100X54 feet flat-screen claimed to be the largest in South Asia.

DMK leader M.K. Stalin’s words that there would be change of government both at Delhi and Chennai fell through as the BJP coasted to a massive win in the Lok Sabha elections while the AIADMK managed to retain its majority in the state Assembly.

The exit polls may be projecting a discouraging outcome for the ruling AIADMK in the Lok Sabha elections, but the state government might not feel threatened about its stability as its ‘godfather’ in Delhi is projected to win comfortably.

But a confident TTV told reporters today that his party would surprise everyone as it did in R.K. Nagar, by winning the majority of Lok Sabha and Assembly seats. “You will come back surprised on May 23 when the results are announced,” he predicted.

Tennis player KR Siddheswaran is finding joy in feeding monkeys that had descended from a famous Salem hillock in search of food and water

Dr Maheshwaran, a pediatrician, made an offer that stunned the chief medical officer of a government hospital near Coimbatore. An entire floor of his hospital is now serving health workers

R. Sekappan and his wife, both in their eighties, have been feeding agricultural labourers 90 km from Madurai

The Class XI student from Chennai has been providing rations to the elderly. His initiative to provide food has received crowd funding

From a bi-weekly schedule for his uncle, Ramanan has now been ferrying patients for emergency treatment, six days a week

Concerned citizens have taken on the mantle of feeding India’s poor during the lockdown

The good souls who defy a frozen society and reach out to COVID-19’s myriad victims

Udit Surya's plan to do a Munnaibhai was exposed as the Marathi boy posing as his surrogate to take the NEET examination was nabbed. Probe revealed a larger racket involving students, colleges and coaching centres

The government implemented Motor Vehicle (MV) Act, 2019, which provides for heavy penalties for traffic rule violations. The new, stiff fines for traffic regulations might scare truant drivers into good behavior. But will they truly work?