Tremors surface in the DPA

The wave of indignation and simmering tensions between the DMK and its key ally, the PMK over a host of issues, is threatening to create more than a stir in the Democratic Progressive Alliance (DPA). NT Bureau has more details.

Girl raped, struggles for life at hospital

A 10-year-old girl is struggling for life at at District Government Hospital here after she was raped by two persons at Kottamedu village, near Thirukovilur.

Tennis coach: Saga of sleaze & volley

More skeletons tumble out of the cupboard in the case relating to Chennai-based tennis coach who was arrested for harassing  his wife and behaving in a lewd manner in the company of call girls in front of her and his parents-in-law.

Huge haul of pirated VCDs

In one of the biggest haul ever, Chennai Central Crime Branch (CCB) personnel seized Rs 28 lakh worth of pirated VCDs and DVDs of several Tamil movies, and arrested seven persons in this connection.

Three more cases against the pimp

Central Crime Branch (CCB) of City Police have slapped another three cases against the pimp Kannada Prasad for luring girls into prostitution racket with assurance of an entry in to film world and job offers.

Figuring out the figures

If February, being the Budget  month, is all about number crunching, March is when you take stock, marking as it does the end of the financial year. And for the FM himself, this period offers a chance to rethink and/or rollback some provisions, under pressure from or for the pleasure of lobbies. Editor T R Jawahar writes.

The nowhere men now here

The resident Indian family members of the NRIs so American in their ways and thoughts that they may even make bold to vote in the forthcoming American presidential elections (most of them, by the way, did not even stir out on the day of the local body elections here). Associate Editor K Balakumar throws more light.

Historic Hindu - Jewish leadership summit in Delhi

If there is one global Hindu leader who is tirelessly circumnavigating the earth several times in a year in order to achieve his grand vision of a Hindu Rashtra or Hindu Raj rooted in our timeless traditions of Sanathana Dharma, he is our beloved Swami Dayananda Saraswati, says V Sundaram.

In a world of his own

K V Vasudevan says, like a duck taking to water, Krishnamurthy’s foray into dubbing is having a charmed existence.

Waging war on winged enemies

For the past one month or so, the mosquito menace has been striking hard on residents of Chennai and they have been going through sleepless nights.