The central government has gone ahead with the constitution of the Cauvery Management Authority despite Karnataka government not nominating its representative. The centre has nominated the water resources secretary of the state government of Karnataka as a member and another state official as a...
In a quick damage-control exercise following wide negative publicity on social media, DMK volunteers moved to ensure that the potholes left on the road by their banners on Anna Nagar were repaired. Its MLA J Anbazhagan apologised for it. The party working president has asked volunteers to...
Huluvadi G. Ramesh, seniormost judge in the Madras High Court, after Chief Justice Indira Banerjee, has nominated Dr Justice S Vimala, Judge of Madras High Court as the third judge to hear the AIADMK MLAs disqualification case. Following a split verdict in the Madras High Court in the...
The Edappadi Palaniswami government has got a reprieve on June 14, 2018, with the Madras High Court giving a split verdict in the AIADMK MLAs disqualification case. The case will now go to a third judge. This situation gives the AIADMK government more time to approach the concerned MLAs and...
The Tamil Nadu Government has nominated two officers to the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) set up by the Centre in accordance with the Supreme Court directive to regulate sharing of Cauvery waters among Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry. TN chief secretary Girija...
Raja, a contract labourer at the Tuticorin port, was heading to the collectorate on the morning of Tuesday, May 22, as per plan, when he saw fires raging inside the complex and policemen in uniform and civvies standing there. Raja was among those walking, or rather...
Muhilan* had tied his lungi high up on his waist. During the strip search, he lifted the lungi and bunched it over his bullet wounds – the bullet had entered his body just above the right hip and left the body through the other side. He removed his banian and threw it to the ground. The...
On February 21, from his modest housing board allotted home in RA Puram, M Kesavan, an auto driver, watched actor Kamal Haasan live on the news launching his political party from Madurai. Wasting no time, Kesavan quit from his position in the Mylapore division of the Congress party, of which he has been a member from the 90s. The following day, he registered online on Makkal Needhi Maiam’s (MNM) website. Not particularly tech savvy, he took the help of kids in the neighbourhood.
The Cauvery issue has severely tested the idea that India shall be a law-governed nation. The system is supposed to work based on checks and balances imposed by constitutionally mandated institutions, but successive Karnataka governments have repeatedly stressed in public, and to a large extent...
