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Virudhunagar (Tamil Nadu) [India], April 5 (ANI): Tamil Nadu CM and DMK Chief MK Stalin on Sunday highlighted key welfare measures promised in the party's 2026 election manifesto, asserting that it has been designed to benefit every section of society. The leader announced that insurance facilities would be provided to palm oil workers registered with the Tamil Nadu Palm Oil Workers Welfare Board. In addition, financial assistance would be extended to their families for education and medical ne ...Read More >

Virudhunagar (Tamil Nadu) [India], April 5 (ANI): Tamil Nadu CM and DMK Chief MK Stalin on Sunday highlighted key welfare measures promised in the party's 2026 election manifesto, asserting that it has been designed to benefit every section of society. The leader announced that insurance facilities would be provided to palm oil workers registered with the Tamil Nadu Palm Oil Workers Welfare Board. In addition, financial assistance would be extended to their families for education and medical ne ...Read More >

Madurai (Tamil Nadu), Dec 17 (PTI) Concerns raised by district authorities over public disorder if Karthigai Deepam (lamp) was lit on a stone pillar near a dargah atop the Thirupparankundram hill, was "non-existent" aimed at stopping the Tamil culture, senior advocate S Sriram submitted before the Madras High Court on Wednesday. When the state was "unwilling" to enforce their rights, then the public could seek its enforcement, Sriram said, advancing his arguments on behalf of the devotees oppos ...Read More >

Here are three things to know about Perumbidugu Mutharaiyar II and why a stamp to commemorate him has been released now. A commemorative postage stamp in honour of the king Perumbidugu Mutharaiyar II (Suvaran Maran) was released by Vice President C P Radhakrishnan on Sunday. Commenting on this, Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on X that Suvaran Maran "was a formidable administrator blessed with remarkable vision, foresight and strategic brilliance... I call upon more youngsters to read abou ...Read More >
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Saturday (October 18, 2025) raised several questions to the BJP-led Union government, a day after State Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu alleged in the Assembly that Centre has consistently shown "a political bias" against Tamil Nadu by withholding funds meant for education and social welfare projects and by not sanctioning infrastructure projects to the State. Replying to discussions on the first supplementary demands for grants in the Legislative As ...Read More >

CHENNAI: Tamizhaga Vazhvurimai Katchi president and MLA T Velmurugan on Thursday demanded that the State government impose a complete ban on Bigg Boss Tamil and prohibit early morning special screenings of newly released films in theatres across Tamil Nadu. Participating in the debate on the supplementary budget in the House, Velmurugan said, "The obscene and vulgar content telecast on Bigg Boss Tamil is destroying Tamil culture and degrading the moral and ethical values of our society. I urge ...Read More >
Tens of thousands of people were gathered in sweltering heat in Tamil Nadu state's Karur for a political rally by Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, popularly known as Vijay, when the stampede began. Vijay, one of India's most successful actors, launched his political party, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, in 2024. He's running for office in the state election scheduled to be held in early 2026. A 65-year-old woman, identified as Suguna, was the latest victim to succumb at the Karur Government Medical Coll ...Read More >

NEW DELHI (AP) -- The death toll following a stampede at a political rally for a popular Indian actor and politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 40, the state's health minister said Sunday, as medics treated at least 124 injured in hospitals. Ma Subramanian told The Associated Press that 36 victims were dead by the time they were taken to a hospital on Saturday night and four more died later. He said the injured were largely stable. The dead included nine children, Subram ...Read More >

NEW DELHI (AP) -- The death toll following a stampede at a political rally for a popular Indian actor and politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 40, the state's health minister said Sunday, as medics treated at least 124 injured in hospitals. Ma Subramanian told The Associated Press that 36 victims were dead by the time they were taken to a hospital on Saturday night and four more died later. He said the injured were largely stable. The dead included nine children, Subram ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (AP) -- The death toll following a stampede at a political rally for a popular Indian actor and politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 40, the state's health minister said Sunday, as medics treated at least 124 injured in hospitals. Ma Subramanian told The Associated Press that 36 victims were dead by the time they were taken to a hospital on Saturday night and four more died later. He said the injured were largely stable. The dead included nine children, Subram ...Read More >

New Delhi [India], August 14 (ANI): As India observes the Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and External Affairs Minister on Thursday paid tribute to the people who sacrificed their lives during the Partition of India. Sharing an X post, Goyal said that on August 14, 1947, during the Partition of India, people endured the pain of violence, displacement and loss of loved ones. Also Read | Independence Day 2025: President Droupadi Murmu To Ad ...Read More >

CUDDALORE: District Collector Sibi Adhithya Senthil Kumar on Wednesday inaugurated the 'Tamil Dream - Tamil Heritage and Culture' promotion programme at Annamalai University, Chidambaram. "Among the world's flourishing cultures, Tamil culture stands foremost in its richness and heritage. To convey its greatness and the challenges to students, the Tamil Virtual Academy, in collaboration with the Higher Education Department, has been conducting the Great Tamil Dream Heritage and Culture Promotion ...Read More >

Srinagar: The Counter-Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) unit of Jammu and Kashmir Police is conducting searches at ten locations across four districts in the Valley. An official told news agency -- Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the raids are part of an ongoing investigation into a terror-crime case linked to a terrorist sleeper cell and recruitment module handled by Jaish commander Abdullah Ghazi from across the border. The searches are underway at one location in Pulwama, six in Ganderbal, one in ...Read More >

Medak: Telangana State BJP President N. Ramchander Rao on Friday appealed to the people to give the committed party an opportunity to meet the aspirations of the poor and downtrodden. Addressing a large gathering of party workers in Medak, the BJP chief remarked that citizens have experienced the rule of the BRS and the Congress party and have had bitter experiences with the deceitful practices of both. He urged people to support the BJP wholeheartedly in the upcoming local body elections as a ...Read More >

CHENNAI: In the upcoming parliamentary session, DMK MPs will voice concerns about the alleged use of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the special intensive electoral roll revision in Bihar for "snatching away" the voting rights of crores of people, thereby attacking the roots of democracy. This was resolved at a party MPs' meeting presided over by Chief Minister M K Stalin at the DMK headquarters on Friday, ahead of the monsoon session of the Parliament. The party MPs will also speak ...Read More >

Mumbai (Maharshtra) [India], July 19 (ANI): Union Culture and Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has said that the proposal to rename Islampur in Sangli district as Ishwarpur in Maharashtra reflects India ongoing cultural renaissance. He said that it marks an effort to restore historical identities that were once deliberately erased. Speaking to the media on Friday, Shekhawat said, There were many of our subjects, places, history books, and incidents, which were intentionally erased, or ...Read More >
Chennai: Chief minister M K Stalin instructed DMK MPs to step up attack on the Union govt in the upcoming parliamentary session, to uphold the rights of Tamil Nadu.Stalin who held a meeting with Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs of DMK in Chennai on Friday said in a social media post that the 11 years of NDA rule was 'National Dictatorship Arrangement'."The BJP rule was only about crippling people's rights, snatching away states' rights, imposing Hindi and Sanskrit everywhere, nurturing communalism ...Read More >

CHENNAI: In 2012, a 89-year-old Dr Kalaignar Karunanidhi chose to join Twitter (renamed X later). For someone who mesmerised lakhs with a unique voice, astounding command over the Tamil language for 75 years, Twitter was simply the next stage, a tool to stay connected with the people he loved and lived for. That impulse to listen, to learn and stay ahead of the curve is the lifeblood of the DMK. Ours is a movement that survived censorship, imprisonment, political vendettas and cultural attacks, ...Read More >
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