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TN: Madurai student makes casteist slurs at classmate, attacks with blade
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Oct 14 (ANI): A student at the Government Higher Secondary School near Palamedu in Madurai district allegedly made caste-based slurs at one of his classmates and later attacked him on his back using a pencil sharpener blade.
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Man gets 27 years prison term for raping minor in Madurai
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 26 (ANI): A local court on Friday sentenced a man to 27 years in prison and fined him Rs 12,000 for raping a minor girl in Nedumkulam area near Silaiman in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu.
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Madurai: Sri Lankan refugees submit petitions to seek Indian citizenship
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 2 (ANI): More than 200 Sri Lankan refugees living in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district for 29 years submitted petitions to collector's office on Monday to seek the Indian citizenship.
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Peacock hunter arrested in TN
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu), June 13 (ANI): A peacock hunter, named Vijaykumar, was arrested by forest department officials in Velayuthampatti near Melur in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district on Wednesday.
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Pongal '19: Madurai celebrates Jallikattu
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Jan 15 (ANI): Jallikattu, a traditional bull-taming event, began in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district on Tuesday on the occasion of Pongal.
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Alagiri seeks permission to erect Karunanidhi's statue
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Sep 07 (ANI): Expelled Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader and son of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister late M Karunanidhi, MK Alagiri has written a letter to Madurai District Collector and Commissioner seeking permission to erect a bronze statue of the forme
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Aadhaar a must to register for Jallikattu
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], JAN 11 (ANI): The Madurai district administration on Thursday made the Aadhaar registration mandatory for bull tamers who wished participate in the annually organised festival of the Jallikattu celebrations.
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Madurai incident: 'Secular' India does everything 'un-secular', say activi
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 28 (ANI): India is a secular country, but we do everything which is un-secular, woman activists opine when asked about the recently-exposed incident, wherein several girls decked up like goddesses were made to participate bare-chested at a festival in
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Madurai: In the name of rituals, bare-chested minor girls 'worshipped' lik
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 27 (ANI): In a bizarre and weird incident, several girls decked up like goddesses were made to participate bare-chested at a festival in Vellalur in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district.
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Madurai: Jallikattu in full swing in Avaniapuram, TN BJP thanks PM Modi
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Chennai [India], Feb. 5 (ANI): The Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his intervention in the Jallikattu matter, as the traditional sport was conducted in its full splendours in Avaniapuram in Madurai district.
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