The swiftness with which the city police arrested AIADMK MLA S Karunas and got him remanded to custody at Vellore prison has exposed the bickerings within the ruling AIADMK while the AIADMK government is looking for every opportunity to crush Dinakaran supporters and break up the rival camp. On...
Puliyur Kottam was the ancient administrative unit of Chennai from over 2,000 years ago. Like Egmore, Mylapore, Triplicane, Adyar, Thiruvanmiyur, Saidapet, Pallavaram, Tirunirmalai, Kundrathur, Mangadu, Poonamallee, Tambaram, Somangalam, Manimangalam, Pozhichalur and other areas, Tirusulam too...
A victory for the ruling AIADMK in the disqualification case against AIADMK MLAs may help the government tide over the crisis momentarily but would face major political hurdles in the long run. To begin with, once the seats are declared vacant if they stand disqualified, the State could be...
Continuing the series on impact of the disqualification case concerning 18 AIADMK MLAs, inmathi.com presents a third scenario in the event of the 18 MLAs winning their case against the disqualification of their membership in the Tamil Nadu Assembly. (The first article can be read here) A major...
The Edappadi government has been moving from one crisis to another ever since its inception. However, the case relating to the disqualification of 18 AIADMK MLAs could be the biggest crisis ever, whichever way the verdict goes. The judgment of the third judge is expected in a day or two, even...
Vellore: Santhan and Murugan, members of LTTE, the Sri Lankan militant organization, believed that the LTTE erred in going against the Indian Government and proceeding against Indian leaders. Had that not happened, the Sri Lankan Tamils would not have faced the present setback, they said adding...
The three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan, who faced a death sentence in 2011, had then expressed their disappointment with the former DMK Government in Tamil Nadu for not granting them clemency along with another convict Nalini. In an exclusive...
When Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan, were in the death row after being convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, I met them in the high-security Vellore prison and had an hour-long interview. Chatting over biscuits and tea kindly provided by the jail staff in an ante-room of the...
Will Tamil Nadu Governor refer the plea for release of Rajiv case convicts to the Centre? That is the most vital question as the Supreme Court on September 6, 2018, has asked the Tamil Nadu Governor to consider the mercy plea of Perarivalan, a convict in the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination...
The much-touted rally of Muthuvel Karunanidhi’s ostracized son M K Alagiri in Chennai on September 5 has been a failure of sorts as he failed to attract any DMK functionary of note, with the party showing it is solidly behind his brother M K Stalin. However, in the eclipse of Alagiri, lies...
