The irony of a state government demanding fiscal autonomy from New Delhi while starving its own local bodies of both funds and decision-making authority is hard to miss — and harder still to defend.
DMK govt accuses Centre of withholding funds, tightening borrowing, unilateral deductions from state accounts. Says Centre's accounting & funding decisions have 'artificially inflated' debt burden.
DMK campaign song targets BJP, and says Stalin’s return as CM is necessary for Tamil Nadu to win. Stalin, meanwhile, credited Rs 5000 each to women beneficiaries of a govt scheme.
Earlier studies have found rhinoceros remains, rhino motifs in Odisha and even in Harappan civilisation sites in Haryana, but not in the Southern Neolithic Zone.
The Thengalai & Vadagalai sects, both followers of philosopher Ramanuja, have been fighting a legal battle over the right to pray at Sri Devaraja Temple in Kancheepuram.
In 2021 Tamil Nadu polls, DMK won 133 of state’s 234 constituencies, enabling it to form government without the support of allies. The Congress was allotted 25 seats and won 18.
The court said the principles of natural justice were not followed the first time since the censor board was not given enough time to decide and respond.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday pitched a BJP–NDA double engine government for Tamil Nadu, drawing a sharp rebuttal from Chief Minister M. K. Stalin.
In response, Chief Minister MK Stalin calls the Governor’s action a 'direct insult to the Assembly, its traditions, and the democratic mandate of the people of Tamil Nadu'.
India's richest civic body’s outlay is 8.77% higher than last year’s, with the biggest allocation being made for infra growth. BMC also proposed an AI boost to its service delivery.
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