With less than two weeks to go for polling day, senior bureaucrat M. Sai Kumar is the new chief secretary, while cybercrime expert Sandeep Mittal has taken over vigilance and anti-corruption.
Electoral competition now appears dominated by welfare delivery and governance metrics, but ideology has not disappeared in Tamil Nadu. Instead, it has become strategic.
Madurai court calls it rarest of rare case, awarding death penalty to 9 policemen in 2020 father–son custodial killings that sparked nationwide outrage.
From Foxconn factory floors in Sriperumbudur to engineering colleges in every district, Tamil Nadu's Dravidian Model has spent a century investing in women. The returns are showing.
Stalin has his unique style of connecting with public, proving a calculated attempt to speak the language of the youth while reinforcing govt's flagship schemes. But challenges remain.
With LPG shortages & memories of Covid lockdown, migrant workers who went home for Holi & Ram Navami are choosing to stay back, leaving mills in Coimbatore & Tiruppur short-staffed.
Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam is going solo in its electoral debut. The party has fielded key functionaries in what is shaping up as a three-cornered fight in Tamil Nadu.
Student alleged 'father figure' professor made obscene calls, sent explicit messages and threatened her; university suspends professor pending inquiry, protests erupt on campus.
Single-digit seats for older allies, including CPI & CPI(M), & 10 for DMDK, which recently joined alliance, have sparked debate. Tamilaga Vazhvurimai Katchi exited SPA this week.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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