Actor Vijay has made a remarkable leap from cinema to politics. He launched his party, TVK, and has now become Chief Minister in his debut ...

Postal voting for government employees, police, fire and rescue staff, and accredited journalists on election duty in Thoothukudi district ...

The Supreme Court rejected Vedanta's plea to reopen its copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi. The plant was closed in May 2018 due to pollu...

It suggested departmental action against the then district collector Venkatesh about his style of functioning reminiscent of abdication of ...

The Justice A Arumughaswamy Commission of Inquiry that probed the circumstances leading to Jayalalithaa's death in 2016, in its concluding ...

Kanimozhi is fighting her first Lok Sabha battle from the site of the anti-Sterlite protests.

The FIR does not name suspects, but specifies that the case is registered against "unkown persons and public servants from police and reven...

TN government had issued an order “permanently” closing down the Sterlite plant on May 28 this year, endorsing an earlier order from the st...

The smelter was shut down in May under order of the Tamil Nadu government after 13 people died after coming under police fire during violen...

Protests against the Vedanta Group unit had turned violent in May, with 13 people being killed in police firing, forcing Tamil Nadu to orde...

The company has also sought NGT’s permission to allow it to carry out care and maintenance of the plant and other interim reliefs, during t...

Fishermen have claimed they have been “brainwashed” into picketing the district collector’s office in a demonstration against the copper sm...

Teams from the state and national human rights commissions were in Thoothukudi on Sunday.

"During the protests a rally was spearheaded by DMK MLA Geetha Jeevan. It was them who instigated the violence,"

The police have deployed drones in select locations to monitor the situation and maintain law and order in the district where 13 people wer...

On April 9, pollution board rejected the co's application to renew a Consent To Operate licence on the basis of 5 deficiencies in managing ...

The police opened fire again on Wednesday to control unruly crowds demanding closure of the Vedanta unit, resulting in the death of a 22-ye...