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Today, with the ‘Cauvery row’ in full flow, the DMK has managed to wrest the ‘pan-Tamil initiative’ for the Dravidian polity as a whole. What more, the DMK has also stolen much of the ‘Tamil thunder’ that had belonged to peripheral pan-Tamil groups over the Jallikattu protests in January 2017, says N Sathiya Moorthy. DMK working president M K Stalin being detained by the police personnel during a road roko organised by the opposition in Chennai on April 5, ...

IMAGE: Policemen take away a fan of CSK Skipper MS Dhoni before the IPL match between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders at MAC Stadium in Chennai on Tuesday. Photograph: R Senthil Kumar Massive anti-IPL protests by pro-Tamil groups erupted in Chennai on Tuesday with scores of activists including film directors being detained even as police chased away agitators in some places. One incident of protesters burning yellow jerseys, the attire of Chennai Super Kings players, was ...

Rail and road blockade, demonstrations, and impromptu rallies by the Opposition marked the shutdown in the state affecting normal life to some extent. IMAGE: DMK working president M K Stalin along with leaders of other parties during a road-roko protest in Chennai on Thursday. Photographs: R Senthil Kumar/PTI Photo The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led opposition parties' sponsored bandh demanding setting up of the Cauvery Management Board was by and large peaceful and ...

Top All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leaders and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday led his party workers on a day-long fast on the Cauvery issue against the Centre as he vowed to win the state its rights.   IMAGE: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar and others take juice at the end of the AIADMK’s day-long fast on the Cauvery issue in Chennai ...

A possible, easier and less-complicated way for the Centre would have been to approach the SC with the same queries much earlier, before a ground-swell of popular sentiments and consequent political tensions had built up in Tamil Nadu, says N Sathiya Moorthy.   Image: DMK Working President M K Stalin addresses a protest meet against the Union government for not setting up the Cauvery management board, in Chennai on April 2, 2018. Photograph: R Senthil Kumar/PTI Photo. By slating Tamil ...

Two days after India's latest communication satellite with military applications GSAT-6A was launched, the Indian Space Research Organisation on Sunday said it had lost contact with it and was making efforts to establish link. The space agency lost communication with the satellite when it attempted to ignite the engine in a third and final move to its desired location after its March 29 textbook launch from the space port of Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The second orbit raising operation of ...

About 30 Tamil films slated for a March release are already delayed.Gireesh Babu reports. IMAGE: Kaala is produced by Rajinikanth's son-in-law actor Dhanush and directed by Pa Ranjith. Those waiting with bated breath to see their favourite Thalaiva in Kaala, slated for an April release, might be in for a disappointment. Almost 30 Tamil films that were to be released in March have been delayed, with a cumulative loss of about Rs 1.5 billion to Rs 2 billion for the industry. The reason is a ...

The Enforcement Directorate has seized properties worth over Rs 2 crore of a senior IAS officer of Bihar cadre, who had been charged with amassing huge wealth during his tenure as the district magistrate of Munger and the commissioner of Patna Municipal ...

A CRPF jawan has been arrested for allegedly vandalising a statue of rationalist leader Periyar in Pudukottai district, Tamil Nadu chief Minister K Palaniswami said today.After the opposition DMK raised the issue in the state Assembly, Palaniswami said the ...