Who were the black sheep?

In a swift post Presidential poll development, the top party bosses of the AIADMK and its ally, the MDMK, have begun an intensive and internal search to identify the legislative members who voted for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) candidate Prathiba Patil.

Thieves strike in different places in Chennai

Robbers struck at two houses and a cellphone showroom in different parts of Chennai. The thieves struck at the cellphone showroom on  Harleys Road at Kilpauk by breaking open the shutters and got away with 20 expensive cellphones. 

One held for indecent act

A 32-year-old software engineer from Bangalore who allegedly tried to kiss a woman in an inebriated state at a party in a star hotel in the city was arrested.

Bonded labourers freed from company

Forty bonded labourers, who have been working in a salt company for the past two years, have been released from Kancheepuram. The contractor who hired them is being interrogated.

Man electrocuted

A man got electrocuted when he came into a contact with a smoothing iron at Thorapakkam Mettukuppam, a city suburb. 

Boy run over by tanker lorry

A nine-year-old boy returning home from school was run over by a water tanker in front of his mother on Ambattur Estate Road yesterday.

Poised to rise high, PMK style

Despite the presence of about half-a-dozen political parties in the DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance (DPA) in Tamilnadu, the PMK alone has positioned itself as a party driven by core values and has succeeded in getting several of its demands met by the ruling DMK, says V Gangadharan.