Tamil Nadu's new Assembly Complex will be inaugurated on Saturday by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Chennai.

The DMK government in Tamil Nadu on Saturday pitched for central intervention in inter-state water disputes, as the party upped the ante on the Mullaperiyar Dam row with Kerala saying the Supreme Court ruling appointing a committee on the issue was not acceptable to it.

Central Industrial Security Force on Monday upgraded surveillance at the airport in Chennai, posting armed men on the open terrace of Domestic and International terminals, following intelligence inputs warning terror threats during Republic Day celebrations.

Three people have been arrested in connection to the killing of a cop in broad daylight in Tamil Nadu on Thursday.

Facing flak for alleged apathy in not extending timely help to a policeman who bled to death on the road, two Tamil Nadu ministers on Saturday refuted the charge saying they ensured that the victim was sent to hospital without delay in a vehicle of their convoy.