Udumalpet

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the acquittal of a man who is charged with murdering his son-in-law, a Dalit man. The top court issued a notice to Chinnasamy, after his daughter and the Tamil Nadu government challenged the Madras High Court's decision in the 2016 case of Udumalpet daylight killing case.

Over four years after a 23-year-old Dalit engineering student who married an upper caste woman was hacked to death in Tamil Nadu, the Madras High Court today acquitted the woman's father who was given death penalty and modified the death sentence of the five others to life imprisonment.

At least 36 persons were injured when two private buses collided near Udumalpet in Tirupur district.

Two persons were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a jeep and a motorcycle at Kudimangalam in Udumalpet in nearby Tirupur district, police said.

Three people from Kannur including a 70-year-old woman were killed and eight others injured when the van in which they were travelling met with an accident near Udumalpet in Tirupur district early Tuesday morning.

The body of an 11th-standard student was found hanging from the ceiling in his hostel room of a private school in Udumalpet in Tirupur district on Wednesday, police said.

Twenty three people were injured today when country-made bombs used to scare away wild boars in farms exploded after a tractor ran over a bag containing the explosives at a bus stand in Tiruppur district.The injured included six women and four students, police said.A man, supplying the bombs to farmers in nearby area, had kept the bag when the trac...

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the acquittal of a man who is charged with murdering his son-in-law, a Dalit man. The top court issued a notice to Chinnasamy, after his daughter and the Tamil Nadu government challenged the Madras High Court's decision in the 2016 case of Udumalpet daylight killing case.

Over four years after a 23-year-old Dalit engineering student who married an upper caste woman was hacked to death in Tamil Nadu, the Madras High Court today acquitted the woman's father who was given death penalty and modified the death sentence of the five others to life imprisonment.

At least 36 persons were injured when two private buses collided near Udumalpet in Tirupur district.

Two persons were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a jeep and a motorcycle at Kudimangalam in Udumalpet in nearby Tirupur district, police said.

Three people from Kannur including a 70-year-old woman were killed and eight others injured when the van in which they were travelling met with an accident near Udumalpet in Tirupur district early Tuesday morning.

The body of an 11th-standard student was found hanging from the ceiling in his hostel room of a private school in Udumalpet in Tirupur district on Wednesday, police said.

Twenty three people were injured today when country-made bombs used to scare away wild boars in farms exploded after a tractor ran over a bag containing the explosives at a bus stand in Tiruppur district.The injured included six women and four students, police said.A man, supplying the bombs to farmers in nearby area, had kept the bag when the trac...