Man gets 7-yr jail for ‘killer’ electric fence
Dalit woman, son were electrocuted while watering the field in Villupuram
Fooled me twice, here’s your freedom
4 Feb 2023The 28-year-old son of the main suspect in the Chennai Port Trust scam, which unravelled a year ago, had moved the CBI court seeking bail citing that...
Conviction that leads to pursuit of Fool’s Gold
31 Jan 2023In a recent incident of a top politician’s alleged antics inside an aircraft, prominent political commentators were hell-bent on defending the...
Police ‘plug’ bus hole; accused go scot-free
26 Jan 2023Chennai Police’s Mount traffic Investigation wing could not prove there was a hole and that the stakeholders’ negligence led to the death of the...
The fair that set forth a reading habit
23 Jan 2023The 46th Chennai Book Fair came to an end on Sunday. From 20 stalls in the 1st edition in 1976 to close to 900 stalls this year, CBF has grown from...
Monetising a jolly good ride while crying ‘victim’
11 Jan 2023Advent in technology, however, seems to have found a solution for this, as bikers can also now be moto vloggers, a pursuit which apparently generates...
‘Copy-Paste’ FIR gets case dismissed
7 Jan 2023Of the 130-odd cases that came before the special court under EC&NDPS Act Act in 2022, only 6 were ruled in Chennai police’s favour. While...
Reporter's diary: 15 years to sentence an internet troll
27 Dec 2022Political wrestling on social media involves memes, video reels on Instagram, tweets, Facebook posts, and so on and so forth.