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Tamil Nadu minorities commission vice-chairman S Masthan, a former MP of the DMK, died of cardiac arrest at Urapakkam on Thursday. He was 66. Masthan's family had been making arrangements for the engagement of his son on Thursday evening.

Three boys, all aged around 15, were allegedly stripped and beaten up by a grocery shop owner and six others in Hoskote, Bengaluru Rural, recently. The accused attacked the minors as they suspected them of stealing food items from the store.

DMK legislator from Gingee K S Masthan, who also heads the party’s minority wing, has donated Rs 11,000 towards the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.

Chief minister M K Stalin has announced a solatium of 10 lakh each to the families of the two men from Tamil Nadu from the chief minister’s relief fund, who were charred to death in a fire accident at their residence at Dubai on April 15.

The 80-year-old leader was accused of flouting rules to take his then private secretary B N Nagesh, stenos S m masthan and V M Muralidharan and driver C H Samaullah to London as Union minister in 1995.

Seven years of struggle for the community certificate came to an end to M Pooja and M Vasan who belong to a scheduled caste a day after they petitioned chief minister M K Stalin.

Three days after a complaint including a video appeal to chief minister M K Stalin about a Tondiarpet woman being tortured in Kuwait reached the city police, the state government on Wednesday said J Bhuvana, 37, was rescued and taken to the Tamil Sangam in that city.

AIADMK interim general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami making a brief stopover at a tea shop to have a cup of the beverage, DMK minister Gingee K S Masthan demonstrating his parotta-making skills in a roadside eatery, and another minister Thangam Thennarasu riding pillion to meet voters on a busy stretch – campaigning in the Erode East assembly segment has finally caught up.

Tirupati SP P Parameswara Reddy told reporters that the five thieves arrested by the police were identified as Kachileti Venkatesh, M Manikantan, P Gemini, R Lokesh and Shaik Masthan.

It is not just bad roads or drinking water that is grabbing the attention of voters this time. The high-decibel local body election campaign for the first phase in nine districts that ended on Monday saw the ruling DMK and the AIADMK slug it out, taking the names of chief minister M K Stalin and late chief minister J Jayalalithaa. Barring a video clip where he is seen seeking votes, Stalin has not visited the districts but directed his ministers, MLAs and MPs to do the talking in the rural pockets.

Two people were killed when their bike was hit by a car on a highway. The driver of the car was arrested.

Three people were killed in separate road accidents in Trichy.