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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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Sunday, August 22, 2021,
Chennai
The statement of TN CM Thiru M K Stalin, welcoming the Madras Day celebrations, has come as a rude and painful shock to lovers of Tamil culture, history and followers of the Tamil movement in Chennai and other parts of TN. The statement goes against the traditional stand of the TN govt right from the Congress govts to that of the DMK and even the AIADMK to ignore the Madras Day as they always believed that Chennai and other parts of TN existed from well before Sangam era for over 2000 years
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Saturday, October 24, 2020,
Chennai
Is a statue for a living person unlucky? Does it bring in bad luck, bad days for such a person? Did it happen in the case of singer SPB who ordered a statue for himself? In a world full of superstitions even in the 21st century, such questions do crop up.
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Sunday, October 4, 2020,
Chennai
P K Muthusamy died at the age of 100 as a poor man, living all alone at his village near Rasipuram. He wrote about 60 Tamil film songs but also created a sensation by making a plagiarism charge against his former chief minister and film-world colleague M Karunanidhi
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Friday, May 24, 2019,
Chennai
DMK has won the Thiruvarur Assembly byelection in Tamil Nadu. Its candidate Kalaivanan Poondi K defeated his nearest rival of the AIADMK, R Jeevanantham, by 64,571 votes.
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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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Friday, May 12, 2017,
Chennai
Dravidian die-hard Muthuvel Karunanidhi has emerged as a national leader in the past two decades. An important factor in national politics, Karunanidhi's 94th birthday fete on June 3 is being used to project him as a key player in the national scene in the run-up to the Presidential polls and a pillar for the platform against the BJP and the NDA in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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Monday, April 17, 2017,
New Delhi
Sukesh Chandrasekhar, involved in the Rs 50-crore bribery deal with TTV Dhinakaran to help the latter get the AIADMK Two Leaves symbol, is a serial conman who is wanted by the police in several States. There are nearly 50 cases pending against him in various States.
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Thursday, February 2, 2017,
New Delho
The Maran brothers, former Union Telecom minister Dayanidhi and Kalanithi Maran, were on Februaqry 2 discharged in the Aircel-Maxis case. The Patiala House court found no ground to proceed against Maran and the other accused.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017,
Chennai
The DMK in Tamil Nadu today opted for the long-discussed change -- DMK president M Karunanidhi agreeing to make his son and
Treasurer, M K Stalin, the Working President at the General Council meeting in Chennai on January 4.
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Friday, October 21, 2016,
Chennai
The DMK has fielded K C Pallani Shamy and Anjugam for Aravakurichi and Thanjavur bypolls to be held on November 19.
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Thursday, April 7, 2016,
Chennai
The DMK has strengthened its front by adding Pudhiya Tamizhagam (PT) to its alliance for the May 16 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. The PT has been allotted four seats in the front.
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Thursday, March 27, 2014,
Chennai
Expelled DMK leader M K Alagiri met DMK MP and party president M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi at her CIT Nagar residence in Chennai on March 27 and held discussions for over an hour.
