'Dissolve Corpn'

The High Court may have given a split verdict on the local poll violence issue. But the observation of one of the judges on the need to hold elections afresh in 99 Wards of the Corporation has triggered a demand for the dissolution of the Corporation Council by the opposition parties in the State.

Two stabbed during contest

Two persons were stabbed at a football competition held at Manali as part of Pongal celebration.

CM blames Jaya

Chief Minister M Karunanidhi today held the AIADMK general secretary and former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa responsible for the 'current status of not being able to directly and authoritatively implement the 69 per cent reservation' in the State.

Burglars strike at telephone booth

Burglars broke open a telephone booth at Ennore in north Chennai yesterday and decamped with Rs 23,000 in cash.

Under-20s under siege

The spate of kidnappings,  killings and suicides of kids since new year, all over the country and in our own  neighbourhoods,  is a rude awakening to an emerging catastrophe, feels editor T R Jawahar.

A moment of infamy for Tamilnadu government

Justice F M Ibrahim Kalifulla has delivered a historic judgement rendering substantive justice to the unmourned, unhung and unsung common man in Chennai by ordering fresh elections to 99 wards out of 155 wards and directing the State Election Commission (SEC) to recall election certificates issued to candidates elected from these wards. V Sundaram ponders on this.

Breaking news: I have an ear to CM's heart

Associate editor K Balakumar pens the experience he went through during a get-together, in other words a party to which he is seldom invited but was once invited to and had to strike a conversation the details of which he shares with the reader in this week's column.

Preparing Indians as they go global

Thousands of Indians leave the country everyday, but how many of them step into the airplane, ready to face the world -  12,000 metres above sea level and hundreds of kilometres away from home? Like shoals of fish out of water, these people need guidance and help on how to keep their feet on the ground, their toes warm, their lives fun and their business in top form. Gemmarie Venkataramani on the issue.

Rama, Lakshmana of Carnatic music

Not only their  music, but even  their thoughts are in total alignment with each other as the Malladi Brothers talk of their music. V Padmasini talks to the brothers.