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  1. DMK to boycott Pudukkottai bypoll

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    / May 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Jayalalithaa has formed a committee that virtually consists of her entire cabinet for the Pudukkottai assembly bypoll. She need not have bothered for the DMK and PMK have decided to boycott the June 12 election. Karunanidhi has alleged that the poll date was announced after consultation between AIADMK and some...

  3. Alagiri vs Stalin

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    / April 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Out of power, the fight between Karunanidhi’s son is out in the open. After the DMK High command issues show cause notices to 17 of his supporters in Madurai for skipping a public meeting addressed by M K Stalin (who is also DMK treasurer), Alagiri questioned the legitimacy of the...

  4. Rajinikanth will not do a `Baba’ with `3′

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    / April 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Rajinikanth is not doing a `Baba’ with `3′. The Superstar has denied reports that he was going to compensate for the losses incurred by distributors who had released the Dhanush-starrer ‘3’, which was directed by his daughter Aishwarya (who is Dhanush’s wife). Rajini clarified that he was not involved in...

  5. `IPL Opening ceremony obscene’

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    / April 19, 2012 / Leave a comment
    All this while, the consensus was it was terribly boring and a drag. But an advocate in Madurai found the opening ceremony of the IPL’s 5th edition, `indecent and obscene’ and has filed a petition in the Madras High court. The Court has asked Tamilnadu’s police officers to respond to...

  6. Jaya selects school uniform

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    / April 18, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Deccan Chronicle reports that students in government and aided schools will look smarter coming academic year, thanks to a personal interest shown by CM Jayalalithaa in choosing free uniforms. “CM first decided uniforms would henceforth be maroon, not blue. She is also deciding dress designs. She is keen children look...

  7. Filmy report card

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    / April 18, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The report card for the Indian film industry is out. According to the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), Bollywood has come first in 2011 with 206 Hindi films. In second spot is Tollywood with 192 Telugu films, followed by Kollywood with 185 Tamil films. The interesting part about the...

  8. No AIADMK, no DMK in Indian delegation to Lanka

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    / April 15, 2012 / Leave a comment
    DMK chief M Karunanidhi has pulled out his party representative out of the Parliamentary delegation scheduled to visit Sri Lanka from 16-22 April to assess the resettlement and political process in the island nation. There was no use of such visits and therefore DMK would not be part of the...

  9. `Tamil New Year’ back in April

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    / April 13, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The Tamil New Year is back in April, the first month of the Tamil solar calender called `Chithirai’. This follows Tamilnadu chief minister J Jayalalaithaa reversing the decision by her predecessor M Karunanidhi who had changed the Tamil New Year to mid-January, coinciding with Pongal, the harvest festival during the...

  10. Tsunami alert at Kudankulam N-plant

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    / April 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    One of the places where an alert was sounded post the earthquake in Indonesia and fears of a tsunami hitting the Indian coast was the nuclear power plant at Kudankulam. According to reports from local sources, there was a sense of panic, given that people in Tamilnadu have faced the...

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