Monday, 8 August, 2022
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Topic: Tamil Nadu

Two men and a boat — India’s Team Sea Sakthi races in Monaco but for a local cause

Sowmiya Ashok -
While India is shifting to electric cars on road, a group of Coimbatore students thinks electric boats are the future of Tamil Nadu's fishing community.

AIADMK tussle lesson for parties that depend on charismatic leaders with no succession plans

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Stalin’s archaeology push in Tamil Nadu is the stuff of culture wars. Experts have a warning

+TFP Sowmiya Ashok -
Stalin-led DMK govt’s push for archaeological work has reignited conversations around Tamil pride and antiquity. But researchers are concerned.

AIADMK caught in leadership battle — as EPS camp ‘eyes sole charge’, OPS wants key meet deferred

Sowmiya Ashok -
At AIADMK general and executive council meeting scheduled for 23 June, EPS camp is expected to push for single leadership of the party. OPS camp wants meeting postponed.

After the most important archaeology findings in Keeladi, now come the drawings

+TFP Sowmiya Ashok -
Archaeologists have relied on draughtsman Palanivel's drawings to document 5,800 artefacts dating back more than 2,000 years ago that have been dug up in Tamil Nadu.

Facing shutdown, Ford Chennai plant employees ‘hold cars hostage’, stage sit-in for severance

Sowmiya Ashok -
Ford says it continues to remain engaged with employees and union representatives on all outstanding matters including compensation.

Neither governors nor CMs can be state university chancellors. It needs someone accountable

Ramanand -
If we want our academic institutions to improve and feature higher in world rankings, we need to think beyond CMs and governors as chancellors.

From toilets for disabled to ‘coffee with collector’, a Tamil Nadu IAS officer shows the way

Drashti Shah -
Virudhnagar in Tamil Nadu was one of India’s 112 under-developed districts. The current DM is trying to change that.

District collector gets notice over beef, pork ban at biryani fest in Tamil Nadu’s Tirupattur

ThePrint Team -
The biryani fest was postponed citing ‘forecast of heavy rains’ but not before Tirupattur Collector Amar Kushwaha was pulled up by the Tamil Nadu State Commission for SC/ST.

Iron Age in Tamil Nadu dates back 4,200 years, ‘oldest in India’

Sowmiya Ashok -
Archaeological excavations in Mayiladumparai have found that the date of iron artefacts unearthed ‘ranges from 2172 BCE to 1615 BCE’, CM Stalin tells Tamil Nadu Assembly.
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Opposition leaders protest outside Parliament | Representative image | ANI

Confused, aimless—why Opposition parties live up to Ronen Sen’s ‘headless chicken’ remark

D.K. Singh -
From ‘compromising national security’ to 'playing havoc' with institutions, the Opposition continues to attack Modi while failing to reflect on own actions.
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After Mammootty and Mohanlal, who? Fahadh Faasil is the new poster boy of Malayalam cinema

US Special Forces and NATO troops in Afghanistan | Representational image | Commons

US interests in Af-Pak now just ‘transactional’. People can fight their own battles

Economy

A suspension pylon in Tamil Nadu | Commons

You thought power subsidy is a Delhi-Punjab problem? Check out Tamil Nadu’s power sector mess

Nikhil Rampal -
RBI data shows Indian discoms owe power generation firms over Rs 4.5 lakh crore, almost a third of which is owed by Tamil Nadu, where power subsidy cost is twice that of food subsidy.

Defence

The Flying Dolphin — how a former Indian Navy submariner qualified as a commercial pilot 

Suchet Vir Singh -
Vivek Chaudhary retired from the Indian Navy in 2017 after serving on the  Short-Service Commission. After that, his dreams took flight. 

National Interest

In Kashmir 3 years on, 3 positive changes, 3 things that should’ve happened & 3 that got worse

Shekhar Gupta -
Kashmir as a crisis has fallen off our headlines and from the top of our collective minds. Which is precisely the most important change for the better.

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