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Bumps for Marans in Karunanidhi’s b’day party

Chief Minister M Karunanidhi said he wanted a quiet birthday as he turned 85 today.

Rift in TN Cong takes violent turn

Worsening the factional rift within the state Congress, members of the Coimbatore District Congress Committee fought each other with chairs...

Honoris Causa: honour without cause

Next time Jackie Chan returns from Chennai, he could well be Dr Jackie Chan. Such is the penchant for distributing honoris causa...

Rajiv remembered at Sriperumbudur memorial

Seventeen years ago, on May 21, 1991, young Mani ran out of a theatre just to catch a glimpse of Rajiv Gandhi.
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Hooch toll crosses 40, Govt starts awareness campaign

The number of deaths in the hooch tragedy in the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border climbed to 44 on Monday...

The ‘Captain’ sails on

None of the senior politicians in Tamil Nadu has expressed any particular liking for actor Vijayakanth or his 150-odd films.

Power without post

For his supporters, M. Karunanidhi Azhagiri is the “chief minister of Madurai”. In some hoardings there...

Muslims court arrest as ASI refuses to open mosque

Protesting Archaeological Survey of India’s decision not to allow prayer inside the Nawab Mosque in the historical Vellore Fort...

Wall breached, minds unbridged

For all its symbolic potential, the new road in this village near Ezhumalai in Madurai has failed to bridge the caste-riven society.

20 yrs on, wall breached but divisions remain

A wall without graffiti or a single poster tells volumes about its sanctity. Or scariness. The ‘untouchability wall’...

Finally, ‘caste wall’ that divided a village is breached

Almost two decades after it was constructed, the wall built by the dominant Thevar community around their colony at Uthapuram village near Madurai, wi

Nalini didn’t have a choice, says ex-judge

On that fateful day in 1991, Nalini faced a Hobson’s choice: to go with the assassins or at least be a spectator to the plot and its enactment or die.

Before seeking Nalini release, her lawyer got son to file RTI on Priyanka

The premature release petition filed by S Nalini Murugan, rejected several times in the past, rests this time on its careful timing.

On choppy seas

Transport and shipping minister T.R. Baalu has never been known for niceties, both in his party and outside his constituency.

Whiff of row from Governor’s beachside window

The days of the Raj are far from over. Over-riding protests from the fishing community and residents and ignoring questions about flouting coastal reg

Four babies die in TN after vaccination

Four children, all below 10 months of age, died after being administered measles vaccine at Pennaloorpettai...

Chennai’s landmark drive-in haunt set to close

A trend-setter when it was built in 1962, the Woodlands Drive-in restaurant remained popular through the years

DNA holds the key to this tale of two cities and three babies

Parents held in Mumbai for abandoning infant girl, fight in Chennai over newborn boy.

From world of books to life behind bars

She had always been a studious girl and in the seventeen years that she has now spent in prison, books have remained her constant companions.

They were waiting to tell him about 2 births when call came

C Govindasamy had organised the marriage of his youngest daughter G Prema before going back to join duty with the Border Roads Organisation...

Two gangsters gunned down in Chennai

Two history-sheeters, wanted in several cases of murder, kidnapping, theft and arson, were gunned down by the police at their hideout in Chennai on Fr

Cracking the caste conundrum

The creamy layer of Tamil Nadu politics couldn’t have been happier with the SC verdict.

Lankan Army now fights for Prabhakaran

This is a Prabhakaran the Sri Lankan Army loves. As controversy rages over the Sinhalese-Tamil movie ‘Prabhakaran’...

Hogenakkal spat continues in cyber, real world

Chief Minister M Karunanidhi may have put the Hogenakkal Integrated Drinking Water Project on hold...

Showcause notice to those who skipped protest

The members of various associations of the Tamil film industry...
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