Nallur Sa Saravanan, president of Saiva Siddhanta Perumandram and the head of the Department of Saiva Siddhantam in the University of Madras, has come under threat from militant Hindutva groups for his views on Saivite philosophy. This Saiva Siddhanta Maha Samajam (Saiva Siddhanta Perumandram)...
It is hard to imagine to imagine an unlikelier background for a young woman lawyer: born into a poor family, once forced to stop schooling to take up a tailoring job to support her family, now a proud standard bearer for her family, her village, and others like her. But Priya, from Aroor in...
The supplementary examination held in the months of September and October for 10th and 12th standards in Tamilnadu has been cancelled from the academic year 2019-20, Directorate of State Examination has announced. Starting next year, the September-supplementary-examination, being conducted...
A statue of the late Kalaignar Karunanidhi is being made ready for installing at the DMK headquarters, Anna Arivalayam. But what about reinstalling his statue again, at the Anna Salai – General Patters road junction, where it stood once, is the question raised now. A Karunanidhi statue was...
Chennapuri Annadana Samajam has been engaged for more than a century in feeding, clothing, and housing poor, orphaned children forsaken by the society. This Samajam (Society) has the proud privilege of being visited by Swami Vivekananda. The great saint, while on a visit to Chennai, spoke to...
Dropping out college to pursue one's passion may not turn out to be fruitful for most people. For Arun Karthick, 26, it did. The government of Netherlands has provided financial assistance of Rs 40 lakhs (50,000 Euro) to the Tamil film that he is directing at present. This will be the first...
The Tamilnadu government has issued a new order stating that only plus 2 marks will be taken into account for admission to colleges and pursuing education there. “Plus 1 common examination was conducted for the first time last March, and so there was lack of clarity and confusion about the...
Students in Tamil Nadu are fast losing interest in dental courses, just as it happened in the case of engineering colleges. When counseling ended this year, 30% of BDS seats were lying vacant in self-financing dental colleges. The application form for joining in both MBBS and BDS is the same...
Some government school teachers have their own initiatives and are working together in a spirit of constructive cooperation, for reigning in improvements. This is something highly commendable. And social media has a large part to play. Starting an informal WhatsApp group some three years ago,...
From the coming year, JEE Main examination will be conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA) instead of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), and in that, the question papers will be in the regional language of Gujarati apart from being in English and Hindi. There will however be no...
