AIADMK wants bypoll put on hold

Determined in its pursuit to have repolls to all the 155 wards of the Chennai Corporation, main opposition, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) today filed a petition in the Madras High Court seeking to quash the notification of the State Election Commission (SEC) for bypolls to 100 wards, pending disposal of civic poll violence case. 

Pornographic VCDs seized

Pornographic VCDs were seized by the police from a person at the old bus-stand at Villupuram.

These women sell themselves

If poverty-stricken fisherwomen in north Chennai sold their kidney to meet the daily needs, then those from Andhra Pradesh, who came here to avail better and cheap treatment for their ailing children, have had to sell something else - their bodies - for their survival, writes G R Sindhu.

Poverty drives man to death

Apparently driven by poverty, a 52-year-old man chose to end his life by hanging at his house at Korukkupet yesterday.

4-year-old boy kidnapped

Looks like there's no end to kidnapping. As a kindergarten child has reportedly been kidnapped for ransom from Manali by a stranger while the child was playing in front of his house.

Sony mobiles from Chennai

Sony Ericsson would produce mobile handsets by outsourcing manufacturing to its global partners - Flextronics and Foxconn, which have set up their facilities in Sriperumbudur, a city suburb.

'No move on dam work'

The Andhra Pradesh government has not officially done anything to start construction for a check dam across river Palar. 

The present saga of aSatyagraha!

A Satyagrahi who wants to serve will not waste a thought upon his own comforts, which he leaves to be attended to or neglected by his Master on high, says V Sundaram.

Getting into big league

Sangeetha's big dream (falling in the ultimate range) is the suffix Kalanidhi attached to her name. Pursuing that in right earnest is the final year student of Business Administration. Backed by her parental support, she is on the job of 'Mission Possible', writes K V Vasudevan.