NEW DELHI: In India, severe cyclone storm 'Gaja' has wreaked large scale damage killing eleven people in Tamil Nadu state.    According to the Indian media, over eighty thousand people were evacuated from low lying areas and sheltered at over four hundred and seventy relief centers in six ...

NEW DELHI: In India, nine people have been killed in clashes with police in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu amid protests against a copper smelter that residents say is causing environmental damage. The protests against the Sterlite copper subsidiary of the Vedanta conglomerate have been going ...

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday survived a non-confidence vote in parliament submitted by a group of opposition legislators, after a majority of legislators voted to support his coalition government. A total of 122 legislators voted against the motion after it was ...

In India, at least eight people were killed after roof of a building collapsed in Tamil Nadu state on Friday. 

CHENNAI, India (APP/AFP) - Indian legislators came to blows Saturday, ripping out microphones and breaking chairs as the new leader of Tamil Nadu state sought to win a vote of confidence in the regional assembly.Shouting slogans, legislators disrupted the assembly as Edappadi Palanisamy, who was ...

NEW DELHI: (APP) India's Supreme Court handed down a four-year prison sentence Tuesday to the incoming chief minister of Tamil Nadu state for corruption in a ruling that prevents her from taking up her post. VK Sasikala was found guilty of possessing "disproportionate assets" in a long-running ...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has overturned a Supreme Court ban on a bull-wrestling festival that fuelled massive protests in southern India by demonstrators who called it an attack on their culture.Indian PM Narendra Modi free advice to PakistanIndia’s Supreme Court outlawed the ...

CHENNAI: Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the chief minister of south India’s Tamil Nadu state and one of the country’s most popular political leaders, died after a prolonged illness, hospital authorities announced late Monday night.  “It is with indescribable grief, we announce the sad demise of our ...

NEW DEHLI: India has started building country's first trans-shipment port and facility projects of worth billions of dollars nearby to create a shipping hub rivalling Chinese facilities in the region.The building of new port of Enayam in Tamil Nadu and facility at Vizhinjam port in Kerala aims to ...

NEW DELHI: An Indian Dalit boy was killed for marrying a high caste woman in India in the name of ‘honour killing’. The boy was killed and his wife became injured during an attack by men armed with sharp weapons in Tamil Nadu state. Police officials claimed that their relatives were angered ...