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Sunday, July 14, 2024,
Chennai
The customary governor’s address to the state legislative assembly at the beginning of a new year-session has turned out to be an exercise in futility and reduced to a farce. A colonial legacy, it could as well be converted into a chief minister’s address, since it is prepared by the cabinet and not the governor.
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Friday, May 14, 2021,
Chennai
COVID has struck again, taking away one of our brilliant officers. Ragothaman, a brave and fiery officer, deserved police honours at his funeral, but sadly the pandemic protocol would not allow any such grand farewell. Ragothaman was SP and Chief Investigating Officer in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, and handled the case brilliantly, securing a conviction for the accused and revealing the whole conspiracy behind the assassination.
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Thursday, April 22, 2021,
Chennai
The AIADMK and its ally, the BJP, are not on the same page here. The AIADMK wants the convicts in the Rajiv killing case be given pardon but Governor Banwarilal Purohit toes the Centre line that no mercy should be shown as it is an issue concerning national security and terrorism
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Friday, October 30, 2020,
Chennai
R K Raghavan, former head of CBI, partly blames Dravidian parties and former PM VP Singh for the Rajiv Gandhi assassination. The former IG Intelligence reveals details of the Sriperumbudur blast incident in his autobiography
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Friday, April 17, 2020,
Chennai
Rajiv Gandhi gave Prabakaran his bullet-proof jacket, Rs 50 L. Lone survivor of 1987 Indo Lanka accord, Panruti Ramachandran exclusive interview: The accord was signed in my presence as the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, MGR, had deputed me as his emissary to Colombo to be at hand for the agreement over the pact, Panruti said.
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Saturday, March 25, 2017,
Chennai
Tamil actor Rajinikanth, stung by criticism of his plan to attend an event in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka, of handing over the keys of
150 homes to Tamils there on April 9, 2017.
