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Thursday, January 29, 2026
TopicTamilnadu

Topic: Tamilnadu

Zamindar of Singampatti, an LIC agent and last of ‘crowned’ rulers left in India, dies

Aananth Daksnamurthy -
T.N.S. Murugadoss Theerthapathy was 3 when he took over as ruler in 1934 but his family lost some 74,000 acres of land after Zamindar Abolition Act was passed in 1950s. 

Jayendra Saraswathi was a reformist whose work was overshadowed by court cases

Kalyan Arun -
Jayandra Saraswathi had tried to break the hold of the Brahminical orthodoxy over the Kanchi math and make it more egalitarian.

Do your math. You will see that Modi increasingly looks like a one-term Prime Minister

Praveen Chakravarty -
The BJP has not shown any signs of improving its tally in its weak large states such as West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

SC’s verdict leaves us high and dry, say farmers in Tamil Nadu’s Cauvery Delta

Swapna Merlin -
Farmers and the opposition allege that the state government has not done enough to ensure that Tamil Nadu gets at least 205 TMC of Cauvery water.   

Periyar would have been happy seeing how couples celebrated Valentine’s Day this year

Manuraj Shunmugasundaram -
Were he alive, Periyar would be happy to see such young couples defy rightwing moral policing

A Tamil Nadu bypoll will decide the future of 4 leaders, 2 parties & alliances

Kalyani Shankar -
OPS, EPS, Dinakaran, and Stalin's futures are at stake in R.K. Nagar. It will also indicate new political alliances before the 2019 LS polls.

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Opinion

How Djokovic & his luck outplayed opponents in major tournaments—walkovers to retirements

Anindya Dutta -
By the 2024 US Open, ESPN noted that Djokovic had advanced via opponent retirements or walkovers 16 times at Majors, the most of any male player in the Open Era.

India is resigned to a new status quo with China

India’s bravest fought the battle of Rezang La in 1962—yet there’s no official record of it

Economy

India among top 5 for expanding research in critical technologies, despite low R&D investment

Soumya Pillai -
The Economic Survey 2025-26 shows India among the top five countries in 45 out of 64 critical technologies in the Critical Technology Tracker.

Defence

Indian Army ties up with US drone company that made its name in the Ukraine conflict

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Shield AI will provide V-BAT vertical takeoff & landing drones along with licences for software, which will be integrated into aircraft and made available to select Indian partners.

National Interest

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

Shekhar Gupta -
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.

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