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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam

Topic: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam

Panic & chaos at Vijay’s rally in Tamil Nadu’s Karur, at least 31 dead in stampede

A massive crowd surge at the rally leads to chaos, with people experiencing breathlessness and falling on each other. 'More than a lakh people had gathered,' says police official.

Vijay’s TVK is honing in on the Christian minority vote, but can he wrest it from ruling DMK

TVK General Secretary engaged with bishops from various churches in Chennai during Christmas & NY, it is learnt, aiming to strengthen ties with Christian community, a key DMK support base.

Vijay’s TVK has stirred up TN politics. Dravidian parties rush to draw youth, smaller ones wary too

Actor-turned-politician Vijay last month held Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam’s maiden political conference in Vikravandi with a mostly young crowd, causing established parties to take note.

Vijay plans padayatra across Tamil Nadu in early 2025 as party TVK lays groundwork for poll debut

Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam spokesperson says it will contest 2026 polls from all 234 seats & become ‘single largest party’, but leaves open possibility of alliance with AIADMK.

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How the Bagram airbase from the 1950s is geopolitically significant in the 21st century

Days after Trump lay claim to the Bagram base, Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan “firmly opposed the reestablishment of military bases in and around Afghanistan by the countries responsible for the current situation”.

NITI Aayog flags gender pay gap in services sector, women earn half of what men make in rural areas

Federal think tank report says gap persists across most sub-sectors, shaped by occupational segregation, limited access to high-paying positions, and skill mismatch.

Indian Navy faces ‘complex, continuous and compounded maritime pressures’, says Navy Chief

'The maritime domain mirrors the wider disorder of our times. Such challenges demand collective solutions beyond jurisdiction or cartographic silos,' he said at the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.