Tamil Nadu
TN: Minister finds doctor absent during inspection; orders enquiry
The minister conducted a surprise inspection at the health centre on Sunday morning during which he found the doctor was not present even as his signature was noted in the attendance register.
2024 BJP-AIADMK alliance stuck around OPS, Sasikala, Dhinakaran
There is merit in the BJP leadership pushing for an alliance with former Chief Minister, OPS, former interim general secretary of the AIADMK, V.K. Sasikala and her nephew and former MLA, TTV Dhinakaran as they have the powerful and solid Thevar vote bank in their fold.
Ex-VHP leader Maniyan arrested for comments against Ambedkar
Confirming his arrest, the Mambalam police said Maniyan was charged with various sections of the IPC, including the SC/ST Act.
Majority thinks Udhayanidhi Stalin indulged in 'hate speech': Survey
The survey had a sample size of 3,350. During the course of a speech delivered last Saturday, the young DMK leader, who's the son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, had compared Sanatan Dharma with a number of diseases and called for its eradication.
Udhayanidhi Stalin writes open letter to DMK cadres, clarifies position on Sanatana Dharma
While sticking to his position of Dravidian equality, Udhayanidhi, the son of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said, "The DMK was not against any religion."
TN Police register case against BJP IT Cell head Amit Malaviya
Malaviya is accused of twisting Tamil Nadu Minister for Sports and Youth affairs , Udhayanidhi Stalin’s speech on Sanatan Dharma.
Ex- judges, bureaucrats write to CJI seeking suo moto action against Udhayanidhi Stalin
The letter stated that Stalin Jr.'s comments amount to hate speech against a large population of India and strikes at the very core of the Constitution of India which envisages Bharat as a secular nation.
Sanatana dharma like dengue, has to be eradicated: Udayanidhi Stalin
Udayanidhi in his speech said: "I thank the organisers for giving me the opportunity to speak at this conference to eradicate Sanatana Dharma. I congratulate the organisers for calling the conference as 'eradication of Santana dharma' instead of 'opposing Sanatana Dharma'.
Mekedatu dam souring Tamil Nadu's ties with Karnataka, casting a shadow on INDIA
Sandeep Saxena, Additional Chief Secretary to government, Water Resources Department of Tamil Nadu told journalists that the state had pointed out that 37.9 tmc ft water was deficit as on August 9, 2023. This was as per the Supreme Court judgment of 2018 and Tamil Nadu officials demanded the CWMA to issue directions to release water on a day to day basis.
For Dravidian parties, anti-Hindi protests a way to re-assert Tamil identity
The first such agitations in the state were carried in 1937 after Hindi teaching was made compulsory in the erstwhile Madras presidency by the first Congress government of the state led by C. Rajagopalchari. This move was opposed by E.V.S. Ramasamy Periyar or Thanthai Periyar considered as the father of the Dravidian movement.
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