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Korean broadcaster shoots documentary on Sivakasi child labour

Tuesday 6 November '07

Rampant child labour in Sivakasi is not a new thing, nor are the frequent accidents in the fireworks factories crowding...
12-year-old TN girl ‘dedicated’ to temple in wedding ceremony

Tuesday 6 November '07

A Ritual dedicating a 12-year-old girl to the local Mariamman (Durga) temple, almost similar to the ceremonies witnessed...
Karunanidhi kicks up another storm with Selvan remarks

Monday 5 November '07

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s elegy to LTTE political wing leader S P Tamilselvan has kicked up a storm...
Day after, Karunanidhi pens elegy on slain LTTE leader

Sunday 4 November '07

If AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa did not hesitate to use even POTA to hit out at LTTE supporters among state politicians during her tenure...
Failure of state a reason for not awarding death penalty to guilty: Coimbatore judge

Wednesday 31 October '07

Sessions Judge K Uthirapthy, who tried the serial bomb blasts case in Coimbatore, has cited the failure of the state as one of the reasons for his not awarding capital punishment...
Gandhigiri gets a ‘divine’ touch, Mahatma is God in TN village

Sunday 28 October '07

Close to the infamous Veerappan territory in Sathyamangalam, there’s a burst of activities in a village...
AT HOME WITH THE MASTER

Sunday 28 October '07

The World Chess Champion is back from Mexico to savour his Amma’s cooking and the taste of triumph. eye caught up with Vishwanathan Anand and his family and found out why he is star-gazing these days
Case over, judge wonders what to do with seized goods

Saturday 27 October '07

Special Judge K Uthirapathy who tried the Coimbatore blasts case, sentencing 43 to life terms in prison, made a piquant admission in court on Friday...
Nobody messes with Chiranjeevi

Friday 26 October '07

In Andhra Pradesh, Sivasankara Vara Prasad Konidela, better known as Mega Star Chiranjeevi, is God. Or almost one, at least.
Mumbai youth comes up with cheap software for the blind

Wednesday 24 October '07

Voice-enabled software for the visually impaired to use on a computer and browse the web is nothing new. But a Mumbai-based visually-impaired...
Chennai back in focus as kidney racket hub

Tuesday 23 October '07

With police taking into custody yet another city doctor on complaints from a kidney donor, Chennai is in the spotlight again as a kidney hub...
Baalu promises canal in a year, Jaya slams panel

Monday 22 October '07

As protests against the Sethusamudram shipping canal project continued, Union Shipping Minister and DMK leader T R Baalu...
King Anand gets world class welcome

Thursday 18 October '07

If chaos marked his reception in Delhi, it was a ‘royal’ welcome that was accorded to the world chess champion...
Is the DMK patriarch too old? Journalist sets off furore

Tuesday 16 October '07

A hard-hitting column in a Tamil journal, by a well-known journalist, urging Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi...
Courting politics, Tamil Nadu style

Saturday 13 October '07

Naadorum naadi murai seyya mannavan,/Naadorum naadu kedum (when a king fails to assess his rule day by day...
A toast to the Indian sake

Friday 12 October '07

Now you won’t have to travel to Japan to savour the traditional sake. A new variety of indigenous...
Sequel to Veerappan drama, TV serial looks at human side

Monday 8 October '07

After years of high drama in the dense forest range of Sathyamangalam, elusive sandalwood smuggler Veerappan...
Hygiene alarm at medical college as student dies

Saturday 29 September '07

The bad state of hygiene of Stanley Medical College Hospital, a premier state Government-run institute, has come under scanner after 18 students staying on its campus took ill...
From real drama to reel, Karunanidhi loves it all

Thursday 27 September '07

When he is not busy politicking or attending to administrative duties, 84-year-old Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi — also referred...
Sun goes on the blink on TV sets in Tamil Nadu

Monday 24 September '07

The channel war between the powerful Sun TV Group, controlled by the Maran brothers, and the Kalaignar TV...
AT LAND'S END

Sunday 23 September '07

The country is debating the origin of a limestone sea bridge but Ram Setu finds no resonance in Dhanushkodi, a small island on the formation, and Rameswaram. Here the only concern of the people is whether the Sethusamudram project will hit their daily fish harvest
Anti-Hindu rhetoric nothing new for atheist DMK chief

Saturday 22 September '07

Hindu-bashing is nothing new for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, an avowed atheist who has been peddling the rationalist principles of his mentor Periyar.
Chennai moral police prowl Marina Beach

Wednesday 19 September '07

If last week, the Marina Beach was seen deserted because of a tsunami scare, now it is the city’s police force that’s threatening to clear the beach.
Kalaignar TV to be launched today, takes on Marans’ Sun

Saturday 15 September '07

The ugly power struggle within the DMK’s first family comes a full circle on Saturday when the party-sponsored Kalaignar TV officially takes on the powerful Sun TV run by the Maran brothers.
Sethu: DMK irked by Govt’s rollback move

Saturday 15 September '07

The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu is quietly seething over the Centre’s decision to withdraw its affidavits on the Sethusamudram project...
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