From last 11 years, the clemency plea of Rajiv Gandhi killers had been delaying or in waiting of decision made by the President.

Now, the Supreme Court decided to transfer itself the petitions filed by three killers, Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan – against their death penalty from the Madras high court.

A bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi delivered order to adjudicate Supreme Court for directing the clemency plea filled by them against their death, with the Madras High Court on lawyer K.L. Venkat’s plea seeking transfer of their pleas outside Tamil Nadu, and listed the case for hearing on July 10. Read the rest of this entry…

As per latest news, a bandh of 24 hours hit by all trade unions and government employees on Tuesday including major cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata on major issue of rising prices, disinvestment of profit-making PSUs and the violation of labour laws.

Due to this nationwide strike, participation of 11 trade unions across party lines along with 8 lakh public sector employees with the exception of those in the Railways struck out banking, transport and government services across the country. Read the rest of this entry…

Continuing raids in nine states including Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and Ambala over the telecom scandal, the Central Bureau Intelligence has charged a fresh case BSNL and Starnet Communications, allegedly beneficiary which got franchise, on allegations of making discrepancies in a Wimax deal.

As per CBI report, teams of CBI officials allowed to go for search the residences of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) officials and the officials of Starnet in different nine locations across Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Gurgaon.

The senior executives of BSNL were signed agreement over the Wimax deal with Starnet Communications although they did not fulfill eligibility criteria. Despite it, a letter of intent for BSNL’s Wimax franchise for its six circles had given to it and fudged its balance sheet to grab the deal. Read the rest of this entry…

On Thursday, South Chennai housing colony was going to be dark in early morning while Police encountered five bank robbers who had struck twice within a month.

As per source said, four robbers as Vinod Kumar, Chandrika Ray, Harish Kumar, Vinay Prasad were identified from Bihar and another one Abhay Kumar was from West Bengal

A Tamil Nadu-based private university was the main point from where this gang had dropout that led by Vinod. The Perungudi branch of had targeted by this gang who looted over all Rs lakh from on January 23. On February 20, the gang had looted Rs 14 lakh from.

According to Police, the accused had looted Rs 33 lakh from two banks- the Bank of Baroda and the Indian Overseas Bank, in the city’s suburbs at gunpoint within a month. And all were stayed in a house in Velachery of south Chennai colony. Read the rest of this entry…

Under the disproportionate premises case, the former DMK minister N K K P Raja’s residence and business premises has raided today morning.

The raid has been conducted by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption officials at several places in Erode and Chennai.

As like Raja who was the handlooms minister in the erstwhile DMK government, many DMK leaders and former Ministers besides MLAS’s residents were also raided by police and DVAC and they were alleged over land grab charges or disproportionate to known sources of income or assets.

These were include former DMK Ministers Veerapandi S Arumugam, K Ponmudy, K N Nehru, M R K Panneerselvam, T M Anbarasan, K P P Samy, Durai Murugan, KKSSR Ramachandran, former MLA B Ranganathan and sitting MLA J Anbazhagan. Read the rest of this entry…

Today the death rate of cyclone thane is going to be 35. Yesterday, the wind of cyclone thane were passing in a speed of 140km per hour, pummelled the Tamil Nadu coast and the Union territory of Puducherry.

In Puducherry, there would be heavy rain fall all along the coast and the strong winds affect to landfall between Puducherry and Cuddalore district in the state.

However major damage had been made in the villages, huts and small houses collapsed like a pack of cards, roads transport were fully damaged and uprooted trees and electric posts straw across streets and pavements.

Today a meeting has been held by Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa with senior officials in Chennai in which Rs 150 crore has been sanctioned for immediate relief made in the affected areas and directed four ministers to visit the districts devastated by the cyclone. Read the rest of this entry…