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TopicK. Kamaraj

Topic: K. Kamaraj

‘Kamaraj couldn’t sleep without AC’: Tiruchi Siva’s claim has Congress fuming, ally DMK in damage control

DMK president & CM Stalin stepped in immediately but BJP latched on to remark and dared Congress to leave the alliance. AIADMK said Congress should ‘exhibit more spine’.

How late Tamil Nadu CM K Kamaraj’s rhetoric came back to haunt Congress in PM Modi’s speech

In a Gujarat speech last week, Modi warned the crowd that if they had 2 buffaloes, Congress would take 1 away. Around 72 yrs ago, Congressman K Kamaraj used almost the same words.

‘Clean classrooms, make notes on Gandhi & Kalam’ — Madras HC order granting bail in school rioting case

Court was hearing anticipatory bail application of 4 people accused of rioting in a school in Yercaud, Tamil Nadu. In its order, court says school place for 'reformation via love & discipline'.

Kamaraj, MGR & Jaya, BJP is using them all to fight ‘North Indian outsider’ tag in Tamil Nadu

With no local icon, BJP's election campaign in Tamil Nadu is leaning on its 'politics of borrowing'. Congress says people won’t fall for it, DMK takes a dig for using K. Kamaraj.

K. Kamaraj: The southern stalwart who gave India two PMs

'Kingmaker' Kamaraj was instrumental in making Lal Bahadur Shastri Prime Minister after Nehru's death in 1964 and then Indira Gandhi in 1966.

On Camera

Mark Tully was a colossus on the Indian subcontinent. He had sources at all levels

I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

Shaurya Chakra for Lt Col who led op to ‘eliminate’ terror leadership along Indo-Myanmar border

President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.