Madurai

“Sri Lankan don poisoned to death by revengeful woman?”

7:18 pm August 9, 2020

Coimbatore: The question whether Amani Thanji, who had been living with the Sri Lankan don Angoda Lokka, poisoned him to death to avenge the killing of her husband in the island nation, is doing the rounds among the police and public. The suspicion arose after a postmortem report revealed that the finger and toe nails of the […]

Army trainee found hanging

7:39 pm April 20, 2020

Udhagamandalam: A 22-year-old trainee in the Army Training Centre in Wellington near here was found hanging dead from a tree on the centre’s campus in the early hours of Monday, police said. A few trainees noticed the body of Sampathkumar, hailing from Madurai and informed senior officials, the police said. Sampathkumar had joined training four […]

Decision on next Himachal CM after Assembly polls: BJP

BJP takes out pro-CAA rallies in Tamil Nadu

8:36 pm February 28, 2020

Chennai: The BJP’s Tamil Nadu unit on Friday took out pro-CAA rallies across the state, and asserted that the amended citizenship law would not harm Muslims as was being made out by opposition parties, including the DMK. Senior BJP leader L Ganesan led a protest here, while agitations were held across Tamil Nadu,where BJP functionaries […]

North Indian youth fatally stabbed by gang

3:56 pm October 6, 2019

Madurai: A north Indian youth was chased and stabbed to death by a gang in broad daylight near here on Sunday, police said. People in the area called the police, who came to the scene and took the body away. A machete and packets of ganja at the spot were seized, they said. The reason […]

Medical college student commits suicide

7:00 pm September 13, 2019

Madurai: A 29-year-old postgraduate student of the government medical college here committed suicide by injecting poison over alleged work pressure, police said here on Friday. Uthayaraj, an MD Anaesthesia student, hailing from Vriddachalam, was found dead with a syringe and vial strewn around in his rented house on Friday morning, they said. As he did […]