Chennai, May 26 (BPNS) A  priest of Kalaimannan temple in Madurai who is also a government employee was hacked to death in Madurai on Thursday morning. The deceased Lakshmanan,52 was also working as a clerk at Idayapatti panchayat in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu. He was hacked to death while he was riding a motorbike […]

Chennai, May 25 (BPNS) The situation in Ramanathapuram in Tamil Nadu turned tense after the body of a missing woman seaweed collector was recovered from the premises of a private shrimp farm on Wednesday. The fourty-year-old woman had gone out of her home on Tuesday for collecting seaweed for a living. Even after she did not […]

Chennai, May 24 (BPNS) In an incident that questions the safety of women who lives alone in Tamil Nadu, a 20-year-old raped a 43-year-old woman at knifepoint after following her for three days from her workplace to her residence. The youth, according to police found that the woman was staying alone and he raped her […]

Chennai, May 19 (BPNS) The Greater Chennai Police has commenced a hunt for four killers and alleged conspirators in a broad daylight killing of a city based financier on Wednesday. Arumugham, 36, who is a small time financier in Chennai was riding pillion with his staff Ramesh, when a four member gang waylaid them in […]

Chennai, May 14 (BPNS) Royapuram police in Chennai are on the lookout for two men Wasim Batch and his friend Dilli Babu, over the murder case of a local DMK leader, Chakrapani. The murder, according to police was committed on May 10 and his body was cut into parts and stored in a gunny bag […]

Chennai, May 12 (BPNS) The Hosur RDO has commenced an investigation into the complaint received by the Krishnagiri district collector that 10 Irualas are being held as bonded labour in a brick kiln in the district. The complaint was sent to the district administration by an Irula person who is working in the kiln for […]

Chennai, May 11 ( BPNS)In a gruesome incident of caste-related violence in Tamil Nadu, three upper-caste juvenile students were booked by Tindivanam police for assaulting and pushing into fire an 11-year-old boy. The boy who was pushed into the bush fire allegedly by the three students suffered serious burn injuries on his body. Police have booked […]

Chennai, May 10 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday said that the Prohibition Enforcement Wing of the state police would be merged with Narcotics Intelligence Bureau –CID to form a new unit, Narcotics Prevention and Prohibition Enforcement. This was announced by the Chief Minister while participating in the demand for grants for […]

Chennai, May 5 (BPNS) The Coimbatore police on Thursday arrested a woman ganja peddler from her rental home along with 50 kg of ganja. Police said that the woman, Jayapandiyammal (30) had stocked the ganja in rented premises at Kangeyampalayam near Sulur. The woman was living alone at Kombakattupudur at Tiruppur after separating from her […]

Chennai, May 1 (BPNS) Police and Forest officials of Gudalur are on the lookout for a person, Anas (28) who is absconding after forest officials seized horns of a bison and three sambar deer and around 700 gm of spotted dear meat and a country-made gun. Forest officials had conducted four days search at the […]