Here’s how the farmer can get a good paddy harvest using just 250 gm of seeds per acre
Alangudi Perumal, a farmer from Alangudi near Kuthalam block of Kumbakonam, has come up with an innovative method of rice transplantation. His method has the objective of using fewer seeds and is based on five core principles: selection of quality seeds, preparation of nursery seed bed,...
Cut subsidies, stop giveaways to other states and bring down petrol prices: Expert tells TN govt
With crude oil prices on an upward trend, it appears petrol and diesel prices are set to go up unless the Centre changes its tax policy. So far the Union government has indicated it has no intention of doing that. To provide relief to its residents, the Andhra government has provided a tax...
After engineering colleges, dental colleges now hit by crisis; 30% of seats vacant
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...
Rajiv case convicts were disappointed with DMK government in 2011
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...
CM demands Bharat Ratna for CN Annadurai
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="ta" dir="ltr">முன்னாள் தமிழக முதல்வர் பேரறிஞர் அண்ணா அவர்களுக்கு பாரத ரத்னா விருது வழங்க வலியுறுத்தி மேதகு பிரதமர் அவர்களுக்கு மாண்புமிகு தமிழ்நாடு முதலமைச்சர் திரு.எடப்பாடி கே.பழனிசாமி அவர்கள் கடிதம்...
Perarivalan wanted to join the Indian Air Force; Santhan’s main wish was to reunite with his family in Lanka
Vellore, October 12, 2011: The three convicts in the death row –Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan – charged with conspiracy in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and lodged in Vellore prison, said in an interview in October 2011 that they believed they could be free men soon. (This interview...
Dear farmers: Dependence on chemicals increases debt and suffering
A nation’s progress is first and foremost dependant on its farmers’ welfare. Only if agriculture thrives, industries and services can flourish. If we neglect farming, we cannot expect our nation to do well. The prime job of any elected government is to empower our farmers since this has a...
Not just Nithyasree, many others are engaging professionals to clean up their digital trail
While the controversy of the singing of Christian songs in Carnatic music was still raging, singer Nithyasree Mahadevan became the target of trolling by right wingers on social media when a song she had sung in praise of slain LTTE leader V Prabhakaran a year ago was dug up and shared on...
In 2011, convicts had turned pacifists; said killing Rajiv Gandhi wrong
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...
BJP Government will go all out to prevent release of Rajiv case convicts; Perarivalan release not in sight
The BJP will go all out to prevent the release of the Rajiv case convicts, applying the law of the land as upheld by the Supreme Court, says a top BJP source. It appears that the release of Perarivalan is nowhere near in sight, given the determination of the Union Home Minister and the Union...
