Action after scrutiny, says PWD Minister

With mounting criticism from the main opposition AIADMK that the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) is not fair and does not protect the interests of the State, the Public Works Minister Duraimurugan today said the government would  take appropriate steps after examining all aspects of the final award. 

4 killed, 33 hurt as bus hits lorry

Four labourers were killed and 33 others were injured when a government bus collided with a parked lorry near here.

Three die while crossing rly track

Three persons, including a woman, were killed in separate accidents while trying to cross railway tracks.

Five of family commit suicide

A carpenter committed suicide by hanging himself in his house at Tiruvanmiyur after administering  poison to his wife and four daughters.

BJP too alleges intimidation

Alleging intimidation to its contestants by the ruling party to the Chennai Corporation bypolls, the BJP today resorted to sit-in agitation in Anna Salai which held up traffic for some time in the arterial road of the city.

Marriage season is hectic for detectives

Nail-nibbling investigative novels have made us to romanticise the world of detectives and spies. But reality always plays out differently. A man who is set out to ferret out information on others maybe actually doing so for hard domestic reason. Prathiba Raju writes 

Picking the threads again

Sivapriya Krishnan, a noticeable talent in the world of carnatic music. Blessed with two children and a voice good enough to bring the gamakam is the Business Management graduate, writes K V Vasudevan

A remarkable Indian management guru

Too many books on ‘Management’ are printed today by people who do not understand them and sold by people who too do not understand them. They are read and reviewed by people who have no feel for them and do not want to understand them, says V Sundaram