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Sunday, May 2, 2021,
Chennai
Actor Siddharth has pulled up the Centre for the shortage of Covid-19 vaccines in the country. He has also questioned the preparedness (or the lack of it ) on the part of the government to tackle the second wave of coronavirus.
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Saturday, May 1, 2021,
Chennai
India cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin's wife Prithi has posted on social media on the ordeal of her family in dealing with Covid-19 as 10 persons in her family had tested positive
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Saturday, May 1, 2021,
Chennai
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) reached the top of the table after completing an easy victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in Match 23 of the VIVO Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 in Delhi on April 28.
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Thursday, December 24, 2020,
Hyderabad
The news that several crew members have tested psotive for coronavirus during the shooting of Rajinikanth-starrer Annaatthe in Hyderabad, has ramifications for the Tamil film industry, but more importantly, could also further delay the superstar’s plans to launch his own political party.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018,
Chennai
The much-touted rally of Muthuvel Karunanidhi’s ostracized son M K Alagiri in Chennai on September 5 has been a failure of sorts as he failed to attract any DMK functionary of note, with the party showing it is solidly behind his brother M K Stalin. However, in the eclipse of Alagiri, lies another story of the DMK being left without a strong southern satrap or star.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018,
Thoothukudi
Tamil Nadu, already earning a notorious tag for its efforts to put down dissent especially against the BJP, blotted its copybook further with the arrest of a 28-year-old research scholar from Canada, Lois Sofia, for shouting, “down with Modi, BJP-RSS fascist government,” towards the end of a Chennai-Thoothukudi flight when TN BJP president Tamilisai Soundarajan crossed her.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018,
Chennai
Leader after leader of various opposition parties, speaking at the Kalaignar condolence meeting in Chennai on August 30, stressed that the newly-elected president M K Stalin will play a crucial role in the formation of the next government at the Centre. For Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Pon Radhakrishnan of the BJP, it must have been galling to find a galaxy of opposition parties coming together under one platform which could be a precursor to an alliance for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2018,
Chennai
Three people were killed and nearly 50 others injured in a stampede in front of Rajaji Hall where thousands of people had gathered to get a last glimpse of the departed DMK leader M Karunanidhi. The police resorted to a lathicharge after steps to control the crowd failed. The injured were rushed to hospital where they are undergoing treatment.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2018,
Chennai
The Madras High Court decision on allowing the Karunanidhi Memorial on the Marina Beach, next to the Anna Memorial is a huge psychological and political victory for the DMK in the battle with the AIADMK which commenced 46 years ago from the time actor MGR formed the Anna DMK after his ouster from the DMK.
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018,
Chennai
Kamal Haasan’s spy film Vishwaroopam 2 has hit the screens on August 10. Kamal, who is actively promoting the film, said that the film was extremely close to his heart. “This is the longest I had to wait for the release of a movie”, he said. Vishwaroopam 2 is an espionage thriller packed with high-octane action sequences, with Kamal at the age of 63, performing the stunts himself.
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Thursday, July 5, 2018,
Chennai
Chennai 2000 Plus Trust organised a special Talk on Chennai and Agathiyar by writer Thiruppur Krishnan at Marundheeswarar Temple in Thiruvanmiyur
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Thursday, July 5, 2018,
Chennai
Eminent Carnatic vocalist R.Suryaprakash rendered an excellent Carnatic vocal concert on the occasion of Maasa Shivrathri at Besant Nagar
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Monday, June 25, 2018,
Chennai
Chennai Police detained over 50 PMK members when they attempted to lay siege to the BJP office at T Nagar in Chennai on June 25, 2018, to condemn its state president Tamilisai Soundararajan’s criticism of their party leader and founder Dr S Ramadoss.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018,
Tiruchirapalli
The Tamil Nadu government has announced that the much-anticipated All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will come up at Thoppur near Madurai at an estimated cost of Rs 1,500 crore.
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Thursday, January 19, 2017,
New Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ruled out issuing an ordinance to enable holding of Jallikattu. When Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam raised the issue of the Jallikattu ban, and urged the Centre to issue an ordinance to allow the bull-fight, the Prime Minister is understood to have told the CM that the matter was sub judice and therefore there was no way the Centre could issue an ordinance at this juncture.
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Thursday, January 19, 2017,
New Delhi
Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam, after a morning meeting with PM Modi, said the State and the Central governments would soon take steps to ensure that Jallikattu was conducted.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016,
Chennai
The body of AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa was taken from Apollo Hospitals to her Poes Garden residence in Chennai shortly after
her death.
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Thursday, September 1, 2016,
Chennai
Union minister for Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting, Venkaiah Naidu, has said that 34 countries were interested in associating with the Smart cities project in India. The minister said the Union government had cleared 40 more cities for inclusion in the project, in addition to the 20 already announced.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016,
New Delhi
Senior IPS officer Archana Ramasundram, a Tamil Nadu cadre officer, was on February 1 appointed Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), the first woman to head a paramilitary force.
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Sunday, October 18, 2015,
Chennai
The Vishal group bagged key posts in the hotly contested Nadigar Sangam (South Indian Film Artistes Association) elections held in Chennai on October 18, 2015, ending the domination of Sarath Kumar and his brother-in-law Radha Ravi.
