More boats, more arms

The Indian Coast Gaurd has seized a boatful of arms and ammunition in the Palk Strait highseas, suspected to be meant for smuggling to Sri Lanka for use by the banned LTTE. 

Love affair: Student ends life on V' Day

A third-year student of a private Engineering College at Thudiyalur near here ended life today by consuming poison due to stiff opposition from the girl’s parents to their love.

Devi Priya grilled

There are now more rumours and speculations floating as to how the TV actress Devi Priya and her husband to-be Williams Isaac came together. 

CM convenes all-party meet

Chief Minister M Karunanidhi will chair  an all-party meeting scheduled to be held  at the Secretariat on 19 February to discuss  on the final verdict of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, said a government press release here today.

It's love's labour lost or found

In reel life you may get to see many success sagas of love, but this doesn't work out for many in real life.  And most adolescents script their own ending and decide the final exit due to love failure and this tops the list of reasons for suicide bid. Prathiba Raju writes.

DPA finetunes poll strategy

The high decibel campaign of actor politician Vijayakanth for his party candidates in the dusty lanes and narrow bylanes of Chennai and the aggressiveness of independents in seeking votes have prompted the Democratic Progressive Alliance's (DPA) poll managers to finetune their campaign plan to emerge victorious, reports R Gomathy Sankaravel.

Questions come to a head over helmet-wearing

Now that helmet-wearing by two-wheeler riders is to be made mandatory, the million-dollar question is how effective will the implementation would be. Vijay Karthik writes.

Auto-drivers hauled over coals

Various Regional Transport Offices (RTOs) in Chennai have received over 70 complaints of auto-drivers demanding excess fare in the last 10 days in spite of the fare already being fixed at Rs 14 for the first two kilometres and Rs six for every subsequent km, reports G R Sindhu.

Love in any language

Love is the manifestation of an emotion related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. Depending on context, love can have a wide variety of intended meanings, writes Gemmarie Venkataramani.