Samsung workers’ strike entered its 25th day on October 3, in Kancheepuram. | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ The principal demand of the striking workers of Samsung Electronics India Pvt. Ltd in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, was that their newly formed Samsung India Workers Union (SIWU) should be registered under the Trade Unions Act, 1926. The […]
Tamil actor Vijay addressed a mega rally of his Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) party in Vikravandi on Sunday, marking his formal launch into politics of the state, which has been ruled either by the DMK or the AIADMK for decades. The 50-year-old actor, popular as Thalapathy among his fans, launched TVK in February and is […]
A miss of mention of the “Dravidian nation” from the official state song of Tamil Nadu ‘Tamizh Thaai Valthu’ lead to a heated war of words between Chief Minister MK Stalin and the Governor RN Ravi. So much so, that the miss soon became the center for row over allegations of “Hindi imposition” over the […]
“The [DMK] party is not Sankara Mutt,” former Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M. Karunanidhi had famously responded, on multiple occasions, to questions if his son M.K. Stalin would succeed him as party chief. He went on to explain that the party would decide on his successor and not a pontiff (or the […]
