Sanjay Pinto

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  Book Excerpt: Pet Owners, You Must Know Your Rights. And Your Duty

  Exclusive excerpt from 'High and Law' by Sanjay Pinto.

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  Parking At Owners' Risk? Objection Sustained

  An excerpt from one of the 86 issues dealt with in the book Justice For All by Sanjay Pinto

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  Blog: Chennai's Roads Were Hell Today. How Parents Like Me Suffered

  I left my wife and kids in the pizza place and walked till I reached a group of protesters who were blocking the road towards the Gemini Circle. Here again, they did not look like students. I tried to reason with them and begged them to let my car pass as my 6-year-old daughter was not feeling well. The response was shocking- ''We will not let an a...

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  Blog: Pot Bellied No More. Meet Chennai's 6-Pack Cops

  Chennai has a new breed of police officers who are setting new standards for physical fitness among their ilk.

• Blog: In Chennai, waiting for Cyclone Nilam

  Every ten years, Chennai witnesses severe floods. In November 1985, I remember cutting my birthday cake in a neighbour's home. As we lived in a low lying area in a place ironically called Little Mount, along the banks of the Adyar River, the incessant downpour had submerged many areas, and was threatening to reach our doorsteps. So after placing a ...

• Puducherry Port: Rough weather?

  Is the private developer of the controversial deep water port in Puducherry close to pulling out of the project? The company - Pondicherry Port Limited - has sent a notice to the Puducherry government demanding a hefty compensation of Rs 1511 crore for what it claims is a violation of the agreement.

• Fence separating Dalits from village stays but thoroughfare provided

  50 Dalit families in Velayuthapuram who were all set to be integrated with the rest of their village in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district have got partial relief this evening. The 30 feet long, eight feet high fence that had been erected by the upper caste Rettiars to cordon off this colony of poor workers, six years ago "has not been removed", as e...

• Tamil Nadu Express fire: Forensic experts probing sabotage angle

  More than 48 hours after a fire that broke out in the Tamil Nadu Express at Nellore, killing 28 passengers, new leads have emerged that strengthen the possibility of sabotage.

• More Sri Lankan officers arrive in India for training

  Despite Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's strong objection to Sri Lankan defence officers being trained anywhere in India, sources have told NDTV that four officers have landed in Chennai from Colombo and have left for Kolkata by a connecting flight to undergo an AN32 engine fitter course.

• Presidential poll: The Tamil Nadu echo

  First off the block in naming and backing the two candidates, Tamil Nadu's Dravidian heavyweights have made quite a statement in the race for Rashtrapati Bhavan. But this Presidential election was at best a semi-final. The political significance revolves around the final, which is the next general election. Whether that will be in 2014 or earlier w...

• Blog: Raindrops and 'hoses'!

  As a little boy, I remember carrying plastic pots of water from tankers in Madras, as the city was called in the eighties. The tag line was: 'Think Madras, think water scarcity'. For this very reason, few families ever had relatives visiting them during the vacation! Think Madras, think also floods. That was the cruel irony. India's fourth largest ...

• Why borewells no longer turn into graves in Tamil Nadu

  It's a sad template in India; a tragedy, and then a knee-jerk reaction from the authorities. Unlike many other States, Tamil Nadu heeded a wake-up call. And here's what happened.

• Former Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss under the scanner again?

  Less than a week after a bailable warrant was recalled against Anbumani Ramadoss by a CBI Court in the alleged Indore-based Index Medical College approval scam, there are reports suggesting that a fresh chargesheet may be filed against the former Union Health Minister. It is an identical case involving the approval of another medical college - Rohi...

• Sri Lankan defence ties: Jayalalithaa accuses Centre of 'callous' attitude

  In one of her strongest protests to the Centre over the presence and training of Sri Lankan defence officers in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has accused the UPA government of showing "utter disrespect to the sentiments of the people of Tamil Nadu".

• Sri Lankan military officers in Tamil Nadu spark protests

  Close on the heels of the recent objection raised by Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa to the training of Sri Lankan airmen at the Indian Air Force station in Tambaram, Chennai, two Lankan officers - Rear Admiral SN Ranasinghe and Major General Jayasularaaga Dias - have arrived at the hill station of Coonoor, sparking protests.