Reporter's diary: Mace-bearer, a blast from the colonial past
For the uninitiated, the official duty of a mace-bearer is to walk in front of the judges with a silver-coated club, to ensure the judge’s path is...
Beware! Career criminals just ramped up 'Hiring'
20 Nov 2022 1:25 AM450 and counting, the job racket wing of Chennai police alone has received that many complaints this year to date. The city police have arrested 75...
Chennai’s only ‘white’ police station now ISO certified
17 Nov 2022 2:03 AMOn Wednesday, Flower Bazaar police station was awarded ISO 9001:2015 and WASH (Workplace Assessment for Safety and Hygiene) standard certificates...
Cops script con comic on cyber crimes
12 Nov 2022 1:30 AMChennai Police adapted and updated a similar booklet released by RBI (Reserve Bank of India) titled, Raju and forty thieves after City Police...
A khaki sisterhood’s hand in justice
7 Nov 2022 1:26 AMA 13-year-old was forced into prostitution by her relatives. In less than 3 months, she was raped by over 10 men including a city police inspector and...
The unbearable stench of political sycophancy
5 Nov 2022 1:30 AMRiver restoration projects are a joke, to say the least. Public toilets and Uncleared garbage bins stink.
Shouldn’t have happened to them: Kedarnath crash victim’s kin
18 Oct 2022 5:28 PMWith their son and daughter living abroad, Chennai couple Sujatha (56) and Prem Kumar (63) spent their time visiting either of them occasionally and...
Her kin didn’t press charges to give him chance to reform
15 Oct 2022 1:10 AMNeighbours and family spoke of how the family had pinned hopes on Sathya, the eldest of the three daughters to share the family’s financial load,...