Monday, December 4, 2023

Topic: Tamil nadu

Tamil Nadu: 9 cops booked for custodial torture of law student

Nine police officers, including the inspector of Chennai’s Kodungaiyur police station, are booked on Thursday for custodial torture of a 21-year-old law student, following...

“Don’t you know how powerful we are?,” TN police asked Dalit man who died in custody

A Dalit man with a disability, Prabhakar, in Tamil Nadu’s Salem district was found dead in police custody on 12 January after he, along with his wife, was picked up from their home on allegations of theft and faced police torture in custody.

In Delhi, Tamil Nadu FM demands greater fiscal federalism from Union govt

In his speech at a pre-Budget meeting, Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan (PTR) asked for greater fiscal autonomy for states from the Union government. 

Thoothukudi firing a scar on democracy, we should never forget: Madras HC

The 2018 police firing on civilians protesting against Vedanta Sterlite's copper smelting plant at Thoothukudi is a scar on democracy and must not be forgotten, the Madras High Court said on Monday.

Tamil Nadu: Dalit govt staff forced to fall at feet of caste Hindu triggers protest

Video of a Dalit government staff falling at the feet of a Caste Hindu in Ottarpalayam village, Annur taluk in Coimbatore has triggered a...

AIADMK accepted anti-Tamil moves initiated by “arm-twisting BJP” at Centre: MK Stalin

Stalin also slammed the AIADMK for having backed the anti-Muslim policies of saffron party government at Centre including abrogation of Article 370, Triple Talak law and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the Parliament.