Flaying the Hindu practice of sporting a 'tilak' on the forehead, Tamil Nadu chief minister Karunanidhi questioned the need for such things in a secular country.

Lakshmanan (49), a resident of an apartment complex at Indra Nagar, Adambakkam, allegedly abused the girl who lived in the same apartment complex.

The Ambattur Estate police on Tuesday received a complaint from a woman resident that her 22-year-old daughter was missing from their house.

Vikalp's father, a businessman in the UK, now on vacation in Chennai, and mother have filed a complaint with the police, and travelled to Ahmedabad after they got a tip that Vikalp could be at the Sabarmati Ashram.

A 58-year old man poured kerosene on his body and set himself ablaze. The man, identified as Palani of Foresons Street in Perambur, died on the spot.

The land grab bid-cum-abduction case, which cost the then handlooms minister NKKP Raja his job, continues to cause ripples, with the Madras high court rejecting the bail plea of a sub-registrar of documents.

A 100-feet trench dug by a cable television company opposite the TB hospital on Spurtank Road in Chetpet is proving to be dangerous for residents and motorists.

On Tuesday, four cases of 'woman missing' were filed. All of them were, later in the day, found to have eloped.

A 20-year-old woman call centre employee tried to commit suicide by setting herself ablaze, after her requests for marriage were turned down by her lover, a lawyer.