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TopicPongal

Topic: Pongal

Jana Nayagan or Raja Saab? Vijay and Prabhas are heading for a box-office clash

The box-office battle will pit two South Indian stars against each other—Vijay on the brink of a political turn, and Prabhas at the height of his pan-India commercial run.

Malaysian Tamils angry after education ministry says Pongal is a religious festival

The letter issued by Malaysia's education ministry on 13 January was said to have been based on guidelines from the Islamic Development Department or Jakim.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.