With the Tamil Nadu Director-General of Police (DGP) C Sylendra Babu set to retire on June 30, 2023, the race has already begun for the top post in the police force in the state ahead of the 2024 general elections. Reportedly 12 IPS officers have qualified for the empanelment by the UPSC. As...
The latest controversy around the Chidambaram Thillai Natarajar Temple has brought the issue of child marriage back into the spotlight. The Chidambaram child marriages were alleged to have happened during lockdown. But the phenomena was statewide, say activists. There have reportedly been over...
Indian Railways will turn 200 years old in another thirty years and it has progressed from Steam Locomotives and Semaphore signals to WAP7 Locomotives and Electronic Interlocking System. The initial investigation in the Bahanaga accident in Odisha’s Balasore district is said to reveal a faulty...
The horrific three-train pile-up involving the Coromandel Express that has led to hundreds of deaths and thousands injured has led experts to spotlight delays in railways implementing the accident prevention system called Kavach. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways in the Lok Sabha...
Forest officials protecting the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border region have long forgotten the Veerappan era. But can they be so complacent as to allow minor poachers to grow into brigands that are difficult to deal with? A case in point is that of Karavadaiyan alias Raja, a 40-year-old suspected...
The shocking acquittal of all eight accused in the Zion Matriculation School bus case, in which seven-year-old Sruthi slipped through a hole in the floor of the bus and was killed in 2012, has shown up the lack of integrity in the prosecution, which could not even prove that there was a hole on...
The death of 22-year old software engineer Shobana near Maduravoyal on January 3 could fade away as another statistic in India’s world-leading road accident death tally, unless civil society pushes back against governmental indifference to abysmal road safety conditions in Chennai and its...
Kerala, which boasts of comparatively better education systems and women’s empowerment than other Indian states, is now witnessing a series of brutal attacks on women across age groups. The attacks seem to be a bid to suppress a cultural revolt by a new generation that has been trying to...
The recent car bomb blast in Coimbatore has brought back the horrors of the 1998 Kovai blasts perpetrated by Al Ummah activists into public memory. Inmathi spoke to two persons who were closely associated with the serial blasts in 12 places that killed 58 people on February 14, 1998 and...
Subhash Kapoor, the notorious art thief, was at long last convicted in the case involving the Udayarpalayam burglary and illegal export of 19 antiques by a trial court in Kumbakonam and sentenced to a 10-year jail term on November 1, 2022. The owner of the Art of the Past gallery in Manhattan,...
