Husband as paymaster? No thanks
The Union government’s idea of making husbands pay salaries to their wives or homemakers has not gone down very well with many women.
The draft Bill being considered by the Women and Child Developmen
Toon master Cho advocates discipline
While faulting the police for overreacting to the Aseem Trivedi’s cartoon by slapping sedition charges, political commentator Cho S. Ramaswamy said media persons should also exercise self-discipline a
K-protest spills over to Chennai
The protests against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tirunelveli district in the state spilled over to Chennai with members of various parties and outfits staging agitations and courting arre
Restore lake, help parched Chennai
With Veeranam lake drying up and the four city reservoirs storing only 1/3 of the total storage (11.057 tmcft), water managers are left hoping for an early northeast monsoon.
However, a water resourc
This knock will release pressure from Yuvraj: Dhoni
By performing well in his comeback game post a serious illness, Yuvraj Singh can afford to be his normal self as the pressure is now off his head, says India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Yuvraj
Spurned lover stabs techie, kills himself
A 21-year-old software engineer was stabbed to death in busy Parry’s Corner on Tuesday by her ex-boyfriend after she and her family reportedly decided not to proceed with the marriage plans.
Flyers wait 18 hrs to fly 80 minutes
As many as 38 air passengers who were to take a flight that would have taken 80 minutes were made to wait for 18 hours before they could take off.
The Air India flight carrying the passengers to Goa
Pesky SMSes take new avatars
After a tired day at work, as soon as you sit the sack and begin to snore, the sms ‘ping’ wakes you up. You panic wondering what kind of an emergency it could be only to find smses like, Do you want t
Women on roads face bus nightmare
Every day begins and ends with a new nightmare for college girls and working women who step into an MTC bus as the taunts and whistles from young college going men who use the bus route haunt them.
PIL to prohibit tobacco sale
A public interest litigation has been filed in the Madras high court seeking a direction to the state government to prohibit the manufacture, storage, distribution or sale of tobacco and nicotine prod