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Topic: Annamalai

Why Tamil Nadu BJP chief Annamalai traded in the quiet life he dreamt of for ‘toxic’ politics

Dubbed ‘Singham’ during his tenure in IPS, Annamalai now juggles his role in Tamil Nadu BJP with responsibility as Karnataka assembly polls co-incharge.

BJP picks Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan as Karnataka poll in-charge, Annamalai co-incharge

Elections to 224-member Karnataka assembly are likely to be held in April-May. For 38-year-old TN chief K Annamalai, this is the first poll responsibility of a state outside Tamil Nadu.

BJP appoints ex-IPS officer ‘Singham’ K Annamalai as Tamil Nadu unit chief

K Annamalai, who quit the IPS to join politics, will take the place of L Murugan who was inducted into the Union Cabinet on Wednesday as a minister of state.

Karnataka’s ex-IPS officer ‘Singham’ Annamalai joins BJP, will fight polls from Tamil Nadu

K. Annamalai, known as 'Singham', resigned as South Bengaluru DCP in 2019 after a 9-yr IPS career. He now wants to work in home state Tamil Nadu where he says BJP is 'misinterpreted'.

Death of IPS senior Madhukar Shetty led Karnataka’s ‘Singham’ Annamalai to resign

A mechanical engineering graduate with an MBA from IIM-Lucknow, K. Annamalai is an IPS officer of the 2011 batch. He resigned Monday.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.