Mugilan Chandrakumar

DMK Chief hits out at Amit Shah

September 16, 2020

Expressing his views on Home Minister Amit Shah’s comment on Hindi Diwas about Hindi being a “unifier” language, DMK chief M.K. Stalin said that Shah should concentrate on saving Indians from Covid-19 more than saving Hindi. Stalin questioned, “The home Minister claims that hindi unifies India! How is this possible...

Ex-Madras HC judges request Chief Justice Sahi to ignore contempt case against actor Suriya

September 15, 2020

Six former Madras High Court judges wrote a letter to Chief Justice AP Sahi requesting him not to take the contempt complaint against actor Suriya into cognizance and “leave the matter as it is”. In fact, Suriya earlier issued a statement mourning the death of three NEET aspirants in Tamil...

CLOSED FOR OVER 175 DAYS, ASSOCIATION DEMANDS IPL MATCH SCREENING IN TAMIL NADU THEATRES

September 12, 2020

Theaters are closed for more than 175 days in Tamil Nadu and theaters associations have been raising continuous demands with the government asking to allow the functioning of theaters at the earliest. Though several rounds of talks between the theater’s associations and the government have taken place so far, the...

Clamour for Rajini to join politics grows, posters with ‘now or never’ surface in TN

September 11, 2020

After the talks of Rajinikanth floating political party resurfaced this month, wall posters calling for political change have been out in several districts of the state. On Monday, posters were put out in Vellore by the Rajini Makkal Mandram district unit saying that the time for a political change in...

Udhayanidhi Stalin’s ‘excessive’ interference in DMK irks cadres

September 10, 2020

DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin has urged the party high command to give more Assembly election tickets to the cadres who are in the youth wing of the organisation. He made this demand while addressing the general council meeting on Wednesday through video conferencing. Though this could be seen as a...

Massive fraud unearthed: Crores siphoned off ‘PM Kisan scheme’ in Tamil Nadu

September 9, 2020

A massive fraud to the tune of Rs 110 crore from the ‘Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi’ has been unearthed in Tamil Nadu recently. Tamil Nadu CB-CID wing, which is investigating the matter, has so far arrested 18 people in relation to the fraud and investigation is now extended to...

DMK starts social media campaign over the ‘imposition’ of Hindi

September 8, 2020

Two hashtags #TamilSpeakingIndian and #HindiTheriyathuPoda (I don’t know Hindi) were trending nationally with lakhs of twitter-handles tweeting with the hashtags. Following Twitter hashtag trends, a tweet by actor Shirish with a picture of him and music director Yuvan Shankar Raja wearing t-shirts with imprints of the same hashtags went viral...

Sasikala may be released early from prison on grounds of good conduct

September 5, 2020

Jayalalithaa’s confidant, V.K. Sasikala, who has been lodged in the Parappana Agrahara central jail since February 2017, is expected to be released on the grounds of good conduct in the last week of September or in the first week of October. She was awarded a four years sentence by a...

DMDK’s Sudhish posts cartoon of ‘Karunanidhi’, triggers row

September 4, 2020

A massive political row erupted over a cartoon portraying several politicos including late DMK patriarch Kalaignar Karunanidhi falling at the feet of actor-turned-politician Vijayakanth. The cartoon was posted by DMDK deputy general secretary and Vijayakanth’s son-in-law L.K. Sudhish. The character in the cartoon with a yellow shawl around the shoulders...

Dead Bodies left ‘unattended’ beside patients in Covid ward at Tamil Nadu’s Salem Hospital

September 3, 2020

A four-minute video surfaced showing how bodies of Covid-19 victims at Salem Government Hospital were left in the ward for an extended period alongside other patients. The video has been shot and circulated on social media by some of the patients’ kin in the hospital. Video shows how patients are...

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