Tamil Nadu

Madurai, May 15 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu police Tuesday took into custody a strongman of the M.K. Azhagiri camp, known as Attack Pandi, the main accused in the attack on the office of the Dinakaran newspaper in Madurai in which three people were killed. Attack Pandi is the main accused named in the police complaint. He had surrendered before the Madurai rural police Tuesday and was produced before a...

Chennai, May 13: The Maran ~ Karunanidhi family divide is not the only thing that is out in the open in Tamil Nadu following the Madurai incident. The media too is a much divided house over whether the Wednesday attack on Dinakaran is to be seen as an attack on Press freedom. Refusing to be quoted openly most working journalists, including office-bearers and members of various media associations...

Chennai, May. 12 (PTI): Over 100 journalists and newspaper employees courted arrest here today while attempting to defy the prohibitory orders to take out a rally from Dinakaran office here, seeking the arrest of the "real culprits" behind the violence at the Tamil daily's office in Madurai on May 9. The arrested included R Rangaraj, President, Madras Reporters Guild, Babu Jayakumar, President...

The attack on the Dinakaran offices in Madurai by DMK supporters Wednesday has come in for condemnation from press freedom organisations worldwide. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) mourned the deaths of three employees of Tamil daily Dinakaran who were killed in an attack on the newspaper’s offices. “We are horrified by the attack on Dinakaran newspaper and mourn these...

Two employees and a security personnel of Tamil newspaper Dinakaran were killed Wednesday after supporters of DMK leader MK Azhagiri, elder son of Chief Minister K Karunanidhi, attacked the daily’s office in Madurai and set it afire. The supporters, who hurled petrol bombs and stones at the building, went on a rampage protesting against the survey published by the Maran family-owned newspaper on...

Coimbatore, April 17: The Coimbatore Press Club (CPC) today condemned the "barbaric" attack on the reporter and photographer of a Tamil eveninger at nearby Pollachi, last evening. "The attack on the lensman and reporter of 'Tamil Murasu', is said to have been carried out by AIADMK supporters in a deliberate attempt to cover up violation of the model code of conduct," CPC president V S Palaniappan...

Coimbatore: The Coimbatore Press Club today condemned the 'illegal arrest and assault' of the reporter of the Tamil magazine 'Kumudam' in Erode yesterday for 'unknown reasons'. In a statement, press club General Secretary, G Jehova, said the reporter, Sakthi alias Gomathi Shankar, was assaulted and absued by police after taking him to Erode taluka police station, which amounted to human rights...

Tension prevailed for some time in front of a police station in the temple town of Tirupati following detention of a local journalist here for a few hours today. The journalist, Gandhi, printer and publisher of Telugu weekly 'Tirupati Vani,' was picked up from his residence in the early hours today and detained at the East Police Station for a few hours after a complaint lodged by a neurologist...

Coimbatore, Sept 24: An inquiry has been ordered into the alleged assault of a Tamil daily reporter by revenue officials at Tirupur near here, official sources said today. In an order issued this evening, Coimbatore District Collector S Kosalaraman said "it has been decided to conduct an inquiry on the alleged occurrence and hence Hastings Hope, District Revenue Officer (Stamps), Coimbatore, is...

Coimbatore, Sept 24: A reporter of a leading Tamil daily, who had gone to cover the farmers' grievances day, was allegedly assaulted by revenue officials at the meeting hall at nearby Tirupur yesterday. A senior revenue official started abusing the reporter, Manikandan, representing 'Dinamani', as soon as he entered the meeting hall. As the journalist was explaining, some officials started...