Kuppusamy

Former DMK North Chennai MP and the party’s labour wing leader C kuppusamy, died in Chennai on Friday. He was 86 and is survived by his wife and two children.

There he lay on a cot at the Thirukazhukundram Government General Hospital, his face swollen with pain, his body shrunk from hunger. As he struggled to sit up on the bed after being rescued from an abusive owner of goats, Chockalingam, an emaciated man over 80 reminded one of Najeeb Muhammed, the protagonist of Benyamin's haunting novel 'Aadujeevitham' (Goat Days).

In a rare conviction for a case of honour killing in the state, a Mahilar Court (Women’s Court) here has awarded life sentence to 57-year-old K kuppusamy, who killed his 15-year-old daughter Varalakshmi, by setting her ablaze.

Police launched a search for the man, identified as P kuppusamy, 55, of Thengalpatti near Vazhapadi, who went absconding after opening fire at his daughter-in-law and grandson.

A 67-year-old differently abled man, who was among several people detained by police for staging a protest in Chennai, died of a sudden illness on Wednesday night.

In yet another incident of violence against women, a 19-year-old woman was strangled to death by her 23-year-old husband after a family quarrel in the early hours of Monday.

Cash amounting to Rs 8.25 lakh went missing from a saw mill agent near Salem on Monday. The man who lost the cash alleged that the money was stolen by Veeranam police.

In what could be another controversy over irregularities in appointments at University of Madras, the Madras high court has issued an interim stay against appointment to the post of professor in the Indian History department till further orders.

The suburban police on Monday said the burglar' who murdered an elderly woman and later died of his injuries in hospital was mentally-ill.

A 50-year-old man digging a trench for a drainage line at Otteri died on Friday afternoon after earth caved in on him and his friend.

Over 500 AIADMK activists blocked the road at Six Corner in Mettupalayam for about two hours on Sunday morning demanding a thorough probe into a road accident case.

A 12-year-old boy, who went into coma after he was accidentally hit with a cricket bat while playing on Sunday evening near Tiruchengode in Namakal district, died this morning.

A 36-year-old man was arrested by the city police on Thursday for sending obscene videos of his wife to his father-in- law's mobile.

A wireless microphone and a car stereo were stolen on Friday from a Tata Sumo (TN 01 G 2181) assigned for the assistant commissioner of police, Ashok Nagar.

Customers laid siege to the Modakuruchi branch of Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) here on Friday after it allegedly issued them fake notes. Bank officials, however, denied the allegations.

Family members N Ramakrishnan, N Raja Kannu, S Sivagami and N Rathinam had gone to the Salem SP's office on Thursday.According to them, they owned eight acres of agricultural land in Poolavari.

The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Election Commission to take action on a complaint that Jayalalithaa filed a "false affidavit" during the 2001 assembly polls.