 | State approves Rs 46 lakh proposal to renovate Sandhaipettai market in DharmapuriSandhaipettai is one of the busiest markets in the district, with an average of more than 600 farmers visiting daily for sales of vegetables. |
 | Lorry rams into, damages Periyar statue in Tamil Nadu's VillupuramAfter the incident, DMK cadre staged protest by blocking roads, and the police arrested the lorry driver V Machindra Sable from Maharashtra. |
 | Tamil Nadu Police invoke Goondas Act against two Hindu Munnani workers who defaced Periyar statueThe incident took place on January 9 and there were widespread protests across Tamil Nadu with the DK and TPDK leading the charge. |
 | Two Hindu outfit workers held for defacing Periyar statue in TNThe duo was produced before a court and remanded to 15 days judicial custody. |
 | Periyar statue vandalised in KovaiPolice said an unidentified man was seen desecrating the statue, and efforts are on to trace him. |
 | Statue of Periyar desecrated by unidentified people in CoimbatoreThe miscreants also put a 'tilak' on the forehead of the statue, police said. |
 | Periyar statue desecrated in Chennai, Tiruppur; Tamil Nadu political parties frownThe miscreant, who came on a two-wheeler, hurled his chappal at the statue and shouted slogan near Simpson junction at Chennai's Anna Salai. |
 | Attacks on statues | After Lenin in Tripura, Periyar in Tamil Nadu, Ambedkar in Meerut, Mahatma Gandhi statue damaged in Kerala's KannurThese incidents come after two statues of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov or Lenin, were knocked down in Tripura’s Belonia town on Tuesday morning. |
 | Following vandalism of Periyar, Lenin statues, Tamil Nadu BJP leader H Raja forced to tender apology for FB post; PM Narendra Modi expresses displeasureMeanwhile, two BJP functionaries who were arrested for damaging Periyar's statue in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu has been expelled from the party. |
