Country boat fishermen and their families staged a road roko in Pamban on Monday, July 1, 2024, after the arrest of four fishers by the Sri Lankan Navy | Photo Credit: BALACHANDAR L Twenty five fishermen from Ramanathapuram district were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy while they were fishing in four country boats near … Read more
A view of Katchatheevu in Sri Lanka. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Katchatheevu islet, a part of Sri Lanka and located about 14 nautical miles from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, is back in the limelight for the wrong reasons. On February 17, fishermen associations in Ramanathapuram district announced that they were boycotting the annual two-day … Read more
The mangled remains of the vehicles after a head-on collision in the early hours of Wednesday, January 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Three persons, including an elderly couple from Ramanathapuram district, were killed when a cargo vehicle, carrying devotees back from Palani, rammed against a truck near Devakottai in the wee hours of … Read more
Eight Sri Lankan persons were detained by the Indian Coast Guard and handed over to the Mandapam Marine Police on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 | Photo Credit: BALACHANDAR L Eight Sri Lankans were detained and four fibre boats were impounded in Ramanathapuram by the surveillance team of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) in the early … Read more
The intra-party clash between different groups in the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in Ramanathapuram district has surfaced again. With the presence of senior member and Tamil Nadu Backward Classes Welfare Minister R.S. Raja Kannappan, DMK district secretary Kadar Basha alias Muthuramalingam, who is also an MLA and the Lok Sabha MP Nawaz Kani (IUML, … Read more
Here are the latest developments from Tamil Nadu to look out for Director General of Police C. Sylendra Babu (second right) inspecting the car which was gutted following an explosion in front of Kottai Eswaran Kovil in Coimbatore early on Sunday morning. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Here are the latest developments from Tamil Nadu … Read more