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SUVs line up Secretariat for Tamil Nadu MLAs to pick from day after CM Vijay’s announcement

CM Vijay announced Wednesday that TVK-led govt will buy new official vehicles for all MLAs. DMK has criticised move, but its MLAs are yet to state whether they would accept or decline the cars.

Sonia Gandhi has done the right thing by laying it all out in her memoir

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

A Wipro techie runs Tamil Nadu’s anti-bribe platform Makkal Saatchi. He’s a Vijay fan

Chennai-based Wipro employee Deepak Sivakumar has run Makkal Saatchi for three months and claims to have exposed Rs 24 crore in bribes. A national platform is next on the cards.

Hits, misses & criticism: 100-day report card of Vijay’s TVK govt in Tamil Nadu

Oppn leaders in Tamil Nadu, including DMK’s Udhayanidhi Stalin & AIADMK’s EPS, dismissed TVK welfare schemes as mere rebranding.

Karnataka CM DK Shivakumar hits back at Tamil Nadu over Hanur killings. ‘Let them do their job’

The killings have become the latest flashpoint between the two states, adding to the tensions boiling over the Cauvery river water dispute and the contentious Mekedatu dam.

EPS vs factions: Why AIADMK’s new wave of rebellion could prove harder to contain

Two senior leaders defied general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s directive to lead the party’s 14 August agitations against TVK government.

Archana Kalpathi: Vijay’s ‘GOAT’ producer now on a temple trustee panel & in Oppn’s line of fire

AIADMK leader and former Tamil Nadu minister RB Udhayakumar asks: 'If government posts are given only to those who have made films with Vijay, how is this democracy?'

Greenfield, Brownfield & ‘red flags’. TVK hails, DMK questions MoUs at Vettri TN Investment Conclave

Tamil Nadu will also host Agnikul Cosmos and Skyroot Aerospace, both setting up integration & testing facilities in Thoothukudi, under MoUs signed at Vettri Tamil Nadu Investment Conclave.

Karnataka is holding the downstream states to ransom: Jayalalithaa

In September 2012, Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa addressed the 7th meeting of the Cauvery River Authority in Delhi, accusing Karnataka of denying Tamil Nadu its lawful share of water while urging the Centre to intervene.

Udhayanidhi vs Vijay is Tamil Nadu’s next-gen duel—Cauvery row to ‘double entendre’ arrest

In a state still adjusting to the end of the Dravidian duopoly, the Cauvery row has intensified the increasingly personalised contest between Udhayanidhi and Vijay’s new TVK government.

On Camera

Why Asim Munir may be softening on Imran Khan

Asim Munir's biggest gripe since the conflict with India in 2025 is that while he has made geo-political gains, there is no comfort for the general at home.

NITI Aayog wants India to reimagine skilling, pitches ‘skills not degree’, training from Class 6

Federal think tank in its latest report maps India’s workforce and learners across five segments, reveals that fewer than one in 12 secondary schools currently offer vocational subjects.

India, Japan look at joint naval shipbuilding, technology transfer with pact to deepen defence ties

Maritime security agreement opens avenues for joint development of naval ships and design, greater use of Indian shipbuilding and repair facilities by Japan.

Gen Vaidya won 2 Maha Vir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago. India forgot a great soldier

Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman