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Monday, April 6, 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.

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

US pilot rescue in Iran must be seen more than war cost. Nation protects its warriors

Ajay Ahlawat -
A live American pilot paraded on Iranian state television would have been an intelligence windfall and a propaganda coup of historic proportions.

Iraq’s long road to FIFA World Cup qualification is a story of survival, defiance

Why nose strips and peel-off masks are an overhyped quick fix for blackheads

Economy

What to expect from China’s new 5-year plan—trade innovation, tensions with partners

WEF Team -
ASEAN is struggling against a flood of 'underpriced Chinese goods', while Brazil has imposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese steel.

Defence

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

Keshav Padmanabhan -
French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

National Interest

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

Shekhar Gupta -
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.

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