With his experience at managing disasters – tsunami, cyclones and floods-, Gagandeep Singh Bedi’s appointment as Commissioner of Greater Chennai Corporation during the second wave of Covid-19 was a real master stroke.
Besides being a politician, MA Subramanian is a fitness enthusiast who has run many marathons and holds multiple records.
Tamil Nadu's newly minted cabinet will have a Gandhi running the Khadi and rural employment department, and a Nehru captaining urban development.
Will there be chop and change of the bureaucracy that accompanies when an opposition party takes over or will there be continuity in the administration till the pandemic subsides a bit?
If the results on May 2 match the exit poll numbers then M.K. Stalin would be sworn in as the next Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, bringing curtains down on 10 years of AIADMK rule.
If the exit polls are correct, barring in Tamil Nadu, the Congress will remain in the Opposition in Assam, Kerala and Bengal. A loss has also been predicted in the union territory of Pondicherry.
Sitaram Yechury, the General Secretary of CPI (M)'s 35-year-old son, Ashish, died on Thursday morning at a hospital in Gurgaon after a two-week battle with coronavirus.
DMK scion MK Stalin is inching closer to his chief ministerial dream
Kanimozhi, who has been actively campaigning for the April 6 Assembly polls, has cancelled her programmes after testing positive for the virus
PM Modi said Congress and DMK had no agenda and alleged that the two parties, facing polls as allies, will not guarantee either safety or dignity for the people.
DMK's electioneering is driven by several teams like a small group of men affiliated to the Labour Progressive Front, party's trade union wing.
Tamil Nadu Election 2021: The DMK leader was earlier issued a show-cause notice by the Election Commission.
Opponents exploit A. Raja’s derogatory comments on Chief Minister Palaniswami’s birth and his mother.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday attacked DMK MP A Raja for his comments on Tamil Nadu CM’s mother and alleged that the DMK was attacking the women of the state
DMK chief MK Stalin also hit out at the ruling AIADMK for ‘supporting’ the Citizenship Amendment Act in Parliament
DMK leader A Raja had claimed that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami was born out of an ‘illicit relationship’
The AIADMK has alleged that DMK MP A Raja made ‘vulgar’ comments about Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.