Authorities in India's Tamil Nadu state have lifted a ban on actor Kamal Haasan's film Vishwaroopam.
The two men were detained in Chennai in neighbouring Tamil Nadu state.
India's Tamil Nadu state has said it will not host Indian Premier League games with Sri Lankan players, amid anger over Colombo's rights record.
The Film Exhibitor's Association in India's Tamil Nadu state has banned a new film amid an ongoing row with neighbouring Kerala over a dam.
India's Tamil Nadu state has been ordered by a court to lift a ban on the screening of a film which has been denounced by Muslim groups.
BBC: Tamil Nadu told to lift suspension of Vishwaroopam film
India's media has criticised the decision of Tamil Nadu state not to host Indian Premier League (IPL) games with Sri Lankan players, amid anger over Colombo's rights record.
Kannan, a police superintendent of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu state.
On Tuesday, the Tamil Nadu state-based DMK party withdrew support to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government protesting India's soft stance on alleged atrocities committed by Sri Lankan forces on ethnic Tamils in the island nation.
The decision comes a day after three senior Congress party leaders met Mr. Karunanidhi in Chennai in the southern Tamil Nadu state, where the DMK is based, to resolve the differences over the Lankan Tamil issue.
Confounding most predictions, another Congress ally, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party, has clung on to win around half of 39 seats in Tamil Nadu, a state it swept in 2004.
So is one Indian state, Tamil Nadu, which is prepared to bash its way through taboos and sensitivities.
India has also redoubled its efforts to stem the supply of arms from its southern state of Tamil Nadu.
Hi I'm living in Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu which is in the southern Part of India.
The DMK is the main opposition party in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, which has a large population of Tamils.
They met in the nineteen-nineties, when both still lived in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where they were born.
The majority (eight) belong to the Congress party, and most of the winners (seven) are from the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
The Kanchi mutt is in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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Shanker Mariappan from the southern state of Tamil Nadu said his brother, Pasupathi Mariappan, hanged himself in a public garden in Bahrain.
In the southern state of Tamil Nadu, piles of bricks and mounds of weed-ridden soil at a halted project attest to Wal-Mart's hurdles and frustrated plans.
In Tamil Nadu, a large southern state, Congress's local ally (and national coalition partner), the DMK, was routed as voters vented their anger over a telecom-licensing scandal.
In the picture-pretty hill station of Coonoor in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, 51-year-old Indira is busy making the signature dishes of her community, the Badagas.
For I had traveled to the Arya Vaidya clinic it's in the state of Tamil Nadu, at the southern tip of the subcontinent, where the Bay of Bengal meets the Arabian Sea on a kind of medical pilgrimage.
Then there is the irrepressible Miss Jayalalitha, whose demands have ranged from the unreasonable (shifting the court that would try her for corruption) to the impossible (dismissing the government of her home state, Tamil Nadu).
The coalition was further weakened last month after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, a party based in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, withdrew support to the government protesting its soft stance on the alleged atrocities committed on Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamils.
But whenever the Tamil Tigers have been in serious trouble in the past they have always been adept at stirring up support among Tamils living abroad - especially more than 60 million of them living in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
The Mahindra Group's Mahindra World City is an integrated township near Chennai in southern India developed in partnership with the state government of Tamil Nadu.
This sentiment is aptly captured in a poster put out by the state tourism department of Tamil Nadu at Madras airport.
Last month, at least five people were killed in Tamil Nadu after a tropical cyclone swept across the state.
The poster shows a map of India with the words "Tamil Nadu" printed in bold letters within the state's boundary.
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