Testing the watersT.S. SUBRAMANIAN in ChennaiThe May 14 byelections for two Assembly seats in Tamil Nadu assume great importance as the next round of Assembly elections is only a year away.
Now, for trialT.S. SUBRAMANIAN in ChennaiThe Tamil Nadu Police files a charge-sheet in the Sankararaman murder case with Jayendra Saraswathi and Vijayendra Saraswathi as the first and second
KILLER WAVEST.S. SUBRAMANIAN in ChennaiMassive ocean waves triggered by an undersea earthquake on December 26 cause thousands of deaths and enormous destruction in India, Sri Lanka, and oth
The course of lawT.S. SUBRAMANIAN in ChennaiSri Jayendra Saraswathi, the Kanchi Sankaracharya, is in prison, denied bail in the Sankararaman murder case and arrested again in a case of violent a
A march with a differenceT.S. SUBRAMANIAN in ChennaiMarumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader Vaiko makes his political presence felt in Tamil Nadu by successfully completing a long march across the
The nexus in Tamil NaduT.S. SUBRAMANIAN in ChennaiThe CBI says it has exposed Abdul Kareem Telgi's fake stamp paper network in Tamil Nadu with the arrest of two police officers in Chennai and an LIC o
Distress and politicsT.S. SUBRAMANIAN in Chennai PARVATHI MENON in BangaloreThe dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over the sharing of Cauvery waters, which needs to be resolved within the mechanism already in place, con
A secular front in the SouthT.S. SUBRAMANIAN in ChennaiIn a quick realignment of forces, the secular parties in Tamil Nadu unite under the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, leaving in the process the BJP and Chie
Stations of the ArcT.S. SUBRAMANIAN in ChennaiIn Chennai, a search for the surviving benchmarks and points of reference relating to the Great Trigonometrical Survey, throws up some interesting fin
POTA against an EditorT.S. SUBRAMANIAN in ChennaiThe Jayalalithaa government's arrest of and invocation of POTA against a Chennai journalist who is critical of it marks a new high in its attempts to
Freebie phobia: The BJP’s concerted attack on redistributive transfers Although the BJP is against ‘freebies’ in principle, in practice it has been forced to use a version of concessions and transfers to counter the o
SlideshowLiving on the edgeThey are river people, whose lives ebb and flow with the waters of the Brahmaputra in a timeless rhythm. But now, hydroelectric projects and homogenis