A pall of gloom has set in at fast bowler S Sreesanth’s house in Kochi with his parents preferring to stay out of public glare following the cricketer's arrest for alleged spot fixing in Indian Premier League (IPL) matches.

Two cabinet ministers in Andhra Pradesh charged in the YS Jaganmohan Reddy's disproportionate assets case have submitted their resignations to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, sources said on Monday.

Eighty-two DMK members were admitted to Erode Government Hospital with symptoms of food poisoning after they consumed 'chicken biriyani' at a party meeting, the police said on Monday.

A convict sentenced to life term allegedly committed suicide on Monday by hanging himself at the Salem central prison.

A 19-year old boy has been arrested on charges of kidnapping a minor girl, the police said on Saturday.

Many Farmers in Coimbatore region on Friday threatened that they would resort to mass suicide if government goes ahead with its plan to increase power tariff. Representatives of various farmers’ associations told a public hearing on tariff revision here that the agriculture sector in Tamil Nadu is already in doldrums due to failure of monsoon and resultant drought.

Tamil Nadu police took five cricket bookies into custody and seized cash, laptops and computers from them on Friday, a day after three Rajasthan Royals players were arrested in Mumbai for allegedly spot-fixing IPL matches in exchange for money.

The Andhra Pradesh Board of Secondary Education, Hyderabad is likely to declare results of class 10th at 11 am on Friday.

The news of S Sreesanth's arrest for alleged spot fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) has come as a shocker for his family, cricket administrators, politicians and the man on the street in Kerala.

Two persons were killed and six others sustained injuries in an explosion at a private fireworks factory at Singampatti near Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.