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Hail Rangaraj Pandey! Hail Thanthi TV! In a historical first in the electronic media in Tamilnadu Shri Rangaraj Pandey of Thanthi TV (the tamil channel run by the popular Tamil daily Dinathanthi) successfully drew out Dravidar Kazhagam leader K Veeramani and made him utter the sentence “When we say no […]

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The cancer of terrorism detected at ‘phase 1’ The Tamil Nadu ‘Q’ Branch police (a special team specializing in terrorism cases) arrested two men from Melur near Madurai on March 21, for their alleged role in a number of bomb cases in and around Madurai in the last three years. […]

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High Court hints at common civil code The marriage of a 16-year-old girl, daughter of Syed Abuthakir of Maharajapuram village in Virudhunagar district, was stopped by Government officials. Contesting this, advocate M Mohamed Abbas filed a PIL seeking a direction to the State Government officials to desist from interfering with […]

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Jai Thiruvalluvar, Jai Bharat! On March 7, Rashtriya Samskrit Vidyapeeth, the Sanskrit University in Tirupathi organized a national seminar on ‘Thiruvalluvar-Thirukurral’ on orders from HRD Ministry, Government of India. Samskrita scholars from Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Tamilnadu submitted papers in Samskritam on the various aspects of the ancient Tamil text […]

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Protect laws that protect labour: BMS Tamilnadu  ** There are hundreds of labour laws; they have to be reduced to one or two effective legislations; in the process, the trade unions should be consulted. ** The Central and State Governments have discouraged factory inspections in the name of economic reform. […]

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The ugly side of a beauty contest Justice T S Sivagnanam of Madras High Court, directed the State government to issue a circular banning beauty contests and pageants in colleges and universities. The order was delivered while the court examined the Petition of a woman student PS Akshaya. Akshaya, who […]

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Over 1,000 Chennai ladies in the VHP Conference About 1,100 women participated in the Mathrusakthi and Durgavahini Conference of chennai vibhag Vishva Hindu Parishad held at Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Perambur,Chennai on 24th Jan.2015. Padmabhushan Dr.Padma Subramanian, Central (VHP Golden Jubilee) Celebration Committee member was the Chief Guest. Special address was delivered […]

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Mind your language, politician! A Dalit thinker, writer and Viduthalai Chiruthaikal Katchi (VCK) leader Ravikumar says the anti-hindi agitation whose 50th anniversary is sought to be celebrated by separatist groups in Tamilnadu, that the agitation had reduced Tamil as a political tool in the hands of politicians here. That explains […]

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High Court chastises Tamilnadu politicians Kudos to Madras High Court judge Shri N Kirubakaran for his scathing attack on meanness of politicians. He frowned upon hate politics in Tamilnadu while dismissing outright a petition by an AIADMK functionary alleging violation of code conduct by DMK treasurer Stalin during Lok Sabha […]

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Refusing Tamil youths much needed courage and heroism In May 2014, the Supreme Court banned ‘jallikattu’ (bull taming) in Tamil Nadu. This heroic game with agrarian origin has the purpose of making the youth brave and strong. Jallikattu is held in the weeks following Sankranti every year. Last year, because […]