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  1. Jaya hikes NREGA wages in Tamilnadu

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    / June 23, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Tamilnadu will now receive 13 rupees more per  day as wages. The Jayalalithaa government has hiked employment daily wages from Rs 119 a day to Rs 132. The hike is expected to benefit more then 25 lakh workers under...

  2. Race for President to change PM?

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    / June 14, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Sometime in May, when this important ally of the Congress in the UPA was called by Sonia Gandhi for discussions on the Presidential election, he decided to be candid. “Ma’m, we will support whoever you decide to nominate for the President. But I have a request to make. Please change...

  3. Democracy and the delusions of grandeur

    Posted by Deepak Shravan
    / June 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Democracy, in India, is more of an illusion, a hologram of our minds. More than being a mere illusion, it is a cover for crime, a safe alias. Like Bin Laden walking unscathed because he’s wearing a Mahatma Gandhi tee shirt. Right from colleges; where they think they can decide...

  4. Chess to be introduced in 32000 TN clubs

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    / June 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    32000 clubs in Tamilnadu will now play chess on a regular basis. This was one of the announcements made after a meeting between World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand and Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa in Chennai today. The CM had earlier announced an award of 2 crore rupees for Anand....

  5. The day belonged to Jaya and Jaya

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    / May 16, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Jayalalithaa’s photograph is what readers of most national dailies, irrespective of which city they lived in, woke up to this morning. The Tamilnadu department of Information and Public Relations had booked six pages in all newspapers, estimated to have cost  25 crores to the exchequer. The ads spoke of the...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. `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...

  9. Tamilnadu wants entire Kudankulam power

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    / March 31, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Tamilnadu chief minister Jayalalithaa wants the entire 2000 MW of power from Kudankulam for the state. In a letter to the PM, she points out that only 925 MW was given to Tamilnadu even though the state is facing an acute power shortage. She has asked for 1000 MW power...

  10. Jaya revokes Sasikala’s expulsion

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    / March 31, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Like a typical Tamil potboiler, all is well that ends well in Tamilnadu politics. Just days after she snapped ties with all her family members, Sasikala is back in the AIADMK. She was expelled from the party and Poes Garden in December. Today Jayalalithaa revoked Sasikala’s suspension, accepting the explanation...

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