#DravidaNadu has been trending on Twitter since the last two days, 50 years after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) dropped its demand for the Dravida Nadu, an independent nation comprising four southern states. #DravidaNadu was trending from Kerala, after the state refused to comply with the Centre’s decision to ban[Read More…]
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Nirmala Sitharaman rejects Hindi imposition charge
CBI Court reserves verdict in 2G spectrum
Tamil Nadu strike: MK Stalin, DMK workers detained
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam working president MK Stalin and several other party workers were detained in Tiruvarur by Tamil Nadu police on Tuesday for holding protests demanding the immediate resolution of farmers’ issues. DMK and other opposition parties were holding protest demonstrations in various parts across the state as part of[Read More…]
RK Nagar bypoll: MK Stalin asks EC for CBI probe against CM Palaniswamy
After the Election Commission on Sunday night cancelled the April 12 bypoll to the R K Nagar Assembly constituency saying the electoral process has been “seriously vitiated” by parties through the use of money power, M K Stalin on Monday asked the election body to initiate an investigation against Tamil[Read More…]
Madras HC directs TN govt to waive all farm loans
Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the Tamil Nadu government to waive farm loans of all farmers in the state irrespective of their land holdings. The court also ordered the government to ensure that no penal action is taken against farmers by officials. Earlier, the Centre had sanctioned a drought-relief[Read More…]
Modi should promise loan waiver to TN farmers: MK Stalin
DMK working president M K Stalin on Saturday visited the protesting Tamil Nadu farmers at Jantar Mantar in Delhi and said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should waive off their loans like he promised in Uttar Pradesh during the recent Assembly election. “Just like how BJP promised farmer loan waiver to UP[Read More…]
Rajya Sabha discusses cow, applications of its urine and dung
Haemoglobin level of patients using “gaumutra” does not fall even after chemotherapy; cows are the only animal that inhale as well as exhale oxygen; ghee made of cow’s milk contains 47 per cent oxygen; “gaumutra (cow’s urine)” in sugarcane field will ensure longer, thicker and sweeter sugarcane and yield more[Read More…]
Madras HC asks DMK to substantiate claim on trust vote
You tore my shirt and insulted me: TN Speaker to DMK MLAs
DMK’s 89 MLAs will vote against CM Edappadi K Palaniswami, says M K Stalin
DMK Working President M K Stalin on Friday announced the party MLAs would vote against the Palaniswami government on Saturday. Addressing press conference, Stalin said “People from all walks of life have been badly affected due to the political crisis in Tamil Nadu, If he (TN CM) seeks vote of[Read More…]
TN Assembly unanimously passes Jallikattu bill
The special session of Tamil Nadu Assembly which was held on Monday to discuss the Jallikattu issue unanimously cleared the Jallikattu Bill placed in the house by the chief minister O Panneerselvam. The bill would replace the ordinance, promulgated on Saturday for conducting the bull taming sport after a three-year-long[Read More…]
Jallikattu: DMK boycotts Assembly; anti-Modi sentiments at Marina beach
After police crackdown on peaceful pro-jallikattu protest at Marina beach, Tamil Nadu main opposition party DMK staged a walkout in the state Assembly on Monday. DMK working president and opposition leader MK Stalin criticised the police action on protesters at Marina beach demanding a permanent solution for holding the bull[Read More…]
Congress VP Rahul Gandhi visits Karunanidhi at Chennai hospital
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday met DMK chief Karunanidhi, who is undergoing treatment for lung and throat infection at a private hospital in Chennai. “I just met him, I wanted to personally wish him a speedy recovery. I was very happy to see that he is doing well[Read More…]
DMK chief Karunanidhi to be discharged soon
Puducherry chief minister V Narayanasamy said, on Sunday, that DMK chief M Karunanidhi was likely to be discharged in a day or two. Karunanidhi was admitted to Kauvery Hospital on Thursday for further treatment of a drug-induced allergy on December 1. “I came to enquire about his health since he[Read More…]
Cauvery row refuses to die down as opposition backs ‘rail roko’ agitation
Cauvery issue has come to rock the city of Chennai again as various farmers’ organizations began their 48-hour ‘rail roko’ agitation in Tiruchi on Monday. Demanding the constitution of Cauvery Management Board, they garnered support from opposition parties like the DMK as former DMK Minister K.N. Nehru courted arrest after[Read More…]
AIIMS doctors in Chennai to attend to Amma as government asked to give update to Madras HC
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa will now be attended by three specialists from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Chennai’s Apollo Hospital. This update was confirmed by hospital sources (HT) and on Thursday morning AIIMS doctors, pulmonologist Dr GC Khilnani, cardiologist Dr Nitish Naik and anaesthetist Dr[Read More…]
UK doctor flown in to examine Jayalalithaa
A doctor from the UK has reportedly been flown in to examine Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa who had been admitted to Apollo hospitals in Chennai. AIADMK on Saturday asserted that the party supremo is healthy. “She needs rest as per doctors’ advice and will return in good health,” said[Read More…]
Did Jayalalithaa push MGR away from Karunanidhi?
J Jayalalithaa’s aura has had Tamil Nadu and its people enthralled for years. The only one perhaps unimpressed was M Karunanidhi. Author Vaasanthi’s book, ‘Amma: Jayalalithaa’s Journey from Movie Star to Political Queen’ throws light on the former superstar-turned-politician’s life. Excerpts: R.M. Veerappan on the other hand sees Jayalalithaa as[Read More…]
Cauvery water standoff: Day-long bandh commences in Tamil Nadu
A dawn-to-dusk bandh called by several farmers and traders bodies over the raging Cauvery dispute began on Friday across Tamil Nadu amid tight security with Opposition parties, including the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), supporting it. However, normal life is not affected much. Government-run buses, government offices, government schools and banks[Read More…]