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High Court allows 15-year-old Virudhunagar girl to terminate pregnancy

B. Tilak Chandar

An unborn child is also a person... if a choice is given to the foetus, it would definitely proclaim that it does not wish to be born, observes the judge

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DMK’s promises are made only to be broken: Minister

DISHA meeting cancelled

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Two arrested for clubbing dog to death in Madurai

Priests performing special pujas to the temple flag before hoisting it at Periyanayaki Amman temple in Palani on Friday.

Flag hoisted at Palani temple for Thai Poosam

Police personnel outside the new building of Keeraithurai station in Madurai on Friday.

Two police stations get new buildings

The battered road at Nelpettai junction in Madurai.

Appalling condition of roads

COVID-19

Palayamkottai Central Prison officials taking out a COVID-19 awareness rally on Wednesday.

Coronavirus | Slight spurt in cases in the recent days Special Correspondent

People flouting safety norms, say doctors.

Spike in number of daily cases in Kanniyakumari

Shoppers give the go-by to COVID-19 norms

Coronavirus | Madurai’s daily case count back in 30-40 band

Fewer theatres open in southern districts

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High Court allows 15-year-old Virudhunagar girl to terminate pregnancy

BJP should be defeated, says Chidambaram

855 candidates offered job at fair

DMK’s promises are made only to be broken: Minister

Boy, with symptoms of dengue, dies

Two held for clubbing dog to death

Three youths held for robbery

MaduraiThe police have arrested three youths, all aged 18 years, on charge of assaulting a motorist and robbing a mobile phone from him near

DISHA meeting cancelled

Ruling party leaders could have forced Collector: MP

Robber attacks man with sword

MaduraiPrakash, 29, sustained bleeding injuries, when an unidentified robber hit him on his head with a sword after breaking open their house in Lake

Treat disputed period as duty, says HC

Petition was filed by a teacher who was working in an aided school

Drunken brawl leads to murder

MaduraiP. Alagumalai, 56, cleanliness worker of TANGEDCO, was found murdered with head injuries in its sub-station at Avaniyapuram on Friday night.

Tense moments at Thangachimadam

Even as the villagers were unable to accept that their loved ones were no more after the Sri Lankan navy personnel allegedly killed four of the

₹3.52 lakh recovered; trickster held

DindigulPrakash, 33, son of Somasundaram of Nadar Mettu Street, Erode district, was arrested by a special team of police in Coimbatore and produced

Centre is keen to promote deep sea fishing: Union Minister

The Centre was keen to encourage deep sea fishing and had given a number of subsidies to fishermen, said Giriraj Singh, Union Minister for Fishing and

NDMA holds training programme for volunteers

Ramesh Kumar Ganda, Joint Secretary, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), launched ‘Aapda Mitra,’ a concept of roping in community

Postmortem of four fishermen should be done by our doctors, says Kanimozhi

Though the Sri Lankan government had conducted the postmortem on the four bodies and sent it to Ramanathapuram, the fishermen here have insisted that

Pension benefits handed over

Adi Dravida Welfare Minister V. M. Rajalakshmi handed over pension benefits to 434 persons, who had successfully completed their service in the Tamil

Two arrested for clubbing dog to death in Madurai

A video clip of the brutal incident went viral on social media

Outfit puts forth demands

MaduraiThe Tamil Nadu Adi Dravidar Kootamaippu has passed a series of 14 resolutions and urged the Centre and the State government to implement the

WhatsApp message proves to be helpful for patient

MaduraiA message passed on Whatsapp helped to provide timely help for a patient who was admitted to Government Rajaji Nagar (GRH) on Friday.Kannan, a

Petition closed

MaduraiThe Madurai Bench of Madras High Court closed a petition that sought a direction to authorities to regulate the functioning of autorickshaws in

Flag hoisted at Palani temple for Thai Poosam

The celebrations, which would usually draw close to a million devotees from far and near and from overseas, witnessed less crowd due to COVID-19 restrictions

Guidelines sought to form special police teams

MaduraiThe Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Friday ordered notice in a public interest litigation petition that sought a direction to the State

Centre in touch with Sri Lanka: Union Minister

Giriraj Singh, Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, who held discussions with Collector Dinesh Ponraj Oliver and other

Armed gang attacks mason, robs him

MaduraiA four-member gang robbed ₹ 700 from a mason after inflicting cut injury on his head at Vadipatti on Wednesday night. The police said M.

Fishermen strike work

Fishermen of Thoothukudi Fishing Harbour struck work on Friday in protest against allowing three mechanized boats to leave the harbour following

Two police stations get new buildings

Chief Minister opens them through videoconferencing

Appalling condition of roads

Many arterial stretches are riddled with potholes

SHRC directs State to give ₹5 lakh compensation for woman’s death during delivery at PHC

The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has directed the Tamil Nadu Government to give a compensation of ₹5 lakh to a man whose wife and her male

Transport officials take oath on road safety

MaduraiTransport Department officials organised an oath-taking event on road safety at Regional Transport Offices and Motor Vehicle Inspector Offices

₹1.08 crore compensation given to 953 farmers hit by Cyclone Burevi in Virudhunagar district

Compensation to the tune of ₹1.08 crore to 953 farmers whose crops were damaged on 548.043 hectares of land due to Cyclone Burevi has been disbursed

Sethu Samudram project will be revived, says Kanimozhi

DMK MP and senior leader M. K. Kanimozhi said that the Sethu Samudram project would be revived if the DMK came back to power.Speaking to reporters at

Assessment of crop damage in Ramanathapuram district under way

The district, which normally received 48.50 mm rainfall in January, had received 247.30 mm till January 20, said TN Agriculture Director V.

₹10 lakh each given to families of four fishermen from CM’s Public Relief Fund

Presenting a cheque of ₹10 lakh each issued from the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund to the families of four fishermen here on Friday, Collector

‘NDA will retain power in Tamil Nadu’

BJP national secretary in-charge of Tamil Nadu C.T. Ravi says that development works to the tune of ₹5.10 lakh crore were going on with the Central funding

Rainwater conservation stressed

MADURAINehru Yuva Kendra, which functions under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and the district administration jointly organised an

CII discusses Madurai airport expansion

MADURAI Sathish Devadoss, Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Madurai Zone, Poornima Venkatesh, Chair, and L. Sevugan, Co-Chair,

New Delhi conveys ‘strong protest’ to Colombo over death of Indian fishermen in Palk Strait

India’s stand was conveyed to Sri Lankan Foreign Minister.

‘It is for legislature to prescribe punishment for offences’

HC disposes of plea seeking death sentence for corruption

Senior citizens demand old age pension

Delay for getting old age pension for 30 poor senior citizens continues.After their applications seeking old age pension did not evoke any positive

‘Follow road safety rules’

Collector R. Kannan flagged off a two-wheeler rally to highlight the importance of wearing helmets here on Thursday and inaugurated a traffic

Many street vendors yet to get loans

Only 20% of street vendors in this town who have applied for micro-credit scheme under PM SVANidhi have got loans from banks. Majority of vendors,

‘Proposal for CDs hospital at AIIMS hiked budget to ₹2,000 cr.’

Officials said Cabinet nod, administrative sanction had to be obtained: MP

30 of 48 infiltration wells resume water supply

Thirty of the 48 infiltration wells supplying drinking water to the residents of Tirunelveli Corporation have started pumping out drinking water again

Cricket match for the differently abled

A cricket match for the differently abled was conducted here on Thursday by NSS Units 54 and 56 of Kamaraj College as part of ‘Road Safety Month’

Beware of BJP, DMK cadre told

The DMK cadre should work hard during the election as the party, besides taking on the ruling AIADMK, had to face the BJP, “which is making sustained

Vacancies in Coop. Dept. being filled

The Department of Cooperation is taking steps to fill up all the vacancies in the department in a phased manner, Minister Sellur K. Raju has

Efforts on to get crop loss relief, insurance benefits

The Department of Agriculture has initiated steps to ensure early disbursal of crop loss compensation and get insurance benefits as farmers have

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