The Tamil Nadu government has rejected DMK's request to allow Karunanidhi's body to be buried at the Anna Memorial on Beach Road. Instead, the government said it is ready to allocate two acres of land near Gandhi and Rajaji Memorial on Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Road. The final rites will be...
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Family members of DMK President M Karunanidhi, including his sons M K Alagiri and M K Stalin, and daughter Kanimozhi, met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami at his residence in Chennai on August 7, 2018. Other senior leaders, including T R Baalu, Murasoli Selvam and I Periasamy,...
M Karunanidhi, towering leader of Tamil Nadu, died at Kauvery Hospital in Chennai Tuesday evening. He had been ill for over a week and had been hospitalized. For most part of his recent bout of illness, his vital organs stayed healthy but the hospital put out a statement on Monday evening...
British multinational Vedanta Resources' Sterlite Copper smelter emitted between 2 and 21 tonnes (average 7.8 tonnes) of cancer-causing arsenic into Thoothukudi's environment every day while in operation, according to an arsenic mass balance made using Sterlite's own data, says environment...
Sixty-five-year-old Aruna Sairam may seem like an unlikely draw for the youth. But this year's Sangitha Kalanidhi is known for the ease in which she can handle various genres and cross boundaries, making the music form appealing to millennials too. [iframe...
The Tamil Nadu government has decided to oppose the centre’s move to scrap the University Grants Commission (UGC) and establish a Higher Education Commission of India that would be dedicated solely to improving the quality of higher education. This was decided at a high powered panel headed by...
Makkal Adhikaram has been much in the news recently. Dubbed as an extremist organization by authorities, its activists have been associated with many agitations that caught public attention in the state including the Tuticorin protests. Kaliyappan, treasurer of Makkal Adhikaram, talks to...
The High Court ruling awarding extra marks to students who wrote NEET in Tamil will throw the medical admission process out of gear if implemented. The counseling process is underway and students have already been admitted as per a merit list that the HC has ordered to be redrawn. Many...
The Tamil Nadu Assembly passed the Lok Ayukta that is purported to investigate charges of corruption against the chief minister, ministers, MLAs as well as government officials. The bill was tabled by fisheries minister D Jayakumar. Under the 1988 Prevention of Corruption Act, complaints can be...
