Written By Sanjay Pinto

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...

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 ...

The battle over the entry of foreign law firms may still be on, but Indian law firms are in an aggressive mood, opening branches in new cities. A few years ago, Kochhar & Co., founded and managed by Rohit Kochhar, opened its base in Chennai. The latest big entrant is Amarchand Mangaldas. This 95-year-old award-winning law firm with 69 partners and ...

Will DMK chief M Karunanidhi skip the much publicised 'fill-the-jails' state-wide demonstration by his party on Wednesday? Indications of his absence emerged from the party's mouthpiece 'Murasoli' this evening.

NDTV was among the first few television crews to reach the Gemini flyover - the site of the accident, as we jumped out of our cars due to the maze of traffic and sprinted to the spot. My first impression on seeing the tell-tale signs - the Metropolitan Transport Corporation Bus lying on its side, after smashing through the wall of the flyover and h...

The Marina Beach Police Station witnessed some tense moments this evening after a young man found an object that looked like a rocket, swept ashore near the Light House.

Over two hundred people with alternative sexual choices took out a march, holding aloft placards and banners with slogans against discrimination, near Chennai's Elliots Beach this evening. This is the city's fourth Gay Pride March since it first started in 2009.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, complaining about Kerala's "reprehensible" attitude over the Mullaperiyar Dam issue.

It's not often that you fight medication induced drowsiness to hammer out a blog. When the Supreme Court transferred the Rajiv convicts mercy plea out of the Madras High Court, on a petition filed by a Tamil Nadu Congressman citing a "surcharged" and "vitiated" atmosphere in the state, I told myself "this is a hat trick!"

Walking into the Tamil Nadu Assembly, from tomorrow, may be quite similar to entry into the high security American Consulate in Chennai! You can't carry mobile phones inside.

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...

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 ...

The battle over the entry of foreign law firms may still be on, but Indian law firms are in an aggressive mood, opening branches in new cities. A few years ago, Kochhar & Co., founded and managed by Rohit Kochhar, opened its base in Chennai. The latest big entrant is Amarchand Mangaldas. This 95-year-old award-winning law firm with 69 partners and ...

Will DMK chief M Karunanidhi skip the much publicised 'fill-the-jails' state-wide demonstration by his party on Wednesday? Indications of his absence emerged from the party's mouthpiece 'Murasoli' this evening.

NDTV was among the first few television crews to reach the Gemini flyover - the site of the accident, as we jumped out of our cars due to the maze of traffic and sprinted to the spot. My first impression on seeing the tell-tale signs - the Metropolitan Transport Corporation Bus lying on its side, after smashing through the wall of the flyover and h...

The Marina Beach Police Station witnessed some tense moments this evening after a young man found an object that looked like a rocket, swept ashore near the Light House.

Over two hundred people with alternative sexual choices took out a march, holding aloft placards and banners with slogans against discrimination, near Chennai's Elliots Beach this evening. This is the city's fourth Gay Pride March since it first started in 2009.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, complaining about Kerala's "reprehensible" attitude over the Mullaperiyar Dam issue.

It's not often that you fight medication induced drowsiness to hammer out a blog. When the Supreme Court transferred the Rajiv convicts mercy plea out of the Madras High Court, on a petition filed by a Tamil Nadu Congressman citing a "surcharged" and "vitiated" atmosphere in the state, I told myself "this is a hat trick!"

Walking into the Tamil Nadu Assembly, from tomorrow, may be quite similar to entry into the high security American Consulate in Chennai! You can't carry mobile phones inside.