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For Frontline : 02/05/2013. PUDUCHERRY : (Picture for TSS sir Story) Scenes from Kattayantheru in Marakkanam, where the riots took place on April 25 ( Angalaammam seen in the picture) Photo: T_Singaravelou

Stoking caste flames

Hostilities between Dalits and Vanniyars erupt again in Tamil Nadu after the Pattali Makkal Katchi’s attack on a Dalit village.
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Chennai: Union Ministers AK Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad and P Chidambaram meet DMK chief M Karunanidhi at his residance in Chennai on Monday. PTI Photo by R Senthil Kumar (PTI3_18_2013_000257B)

Tipping point

How the Sri Lankan Tamils issue progressively pushed the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam into breaking its alliance with the Congress.
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CHENNAI : 27/02/2013 : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister meeting S. Ranganathan (front row, extreme right), Secretary, Cauvery Delta Farmers' Association and leaders of other farmers' associations, at the Secretariat in Chennai on February 27, 2013. They met her to thank her for getting the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal's Final Order published in the Centre's gazette on February 19, 2013._Photo courtesy: Directorate of Information and Public Relations, Tamil Nadu.

Sigh of relief

The 30-year-long dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over the sharing of the Cauvery waters comes to a formal closure with the Centre gazetting
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Chennai: File picture of DMK Chief M Karunanidhi and his son MK Stalin at a function in Chennai. Karunanidhi hinted on Thursday that MK Stalin could be his political successor. PTI Photo (PTI1_3_2013_000214A)

Apparent heir

A SENSE of tremendous relief pervades the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in Tamil Nadu, with its president and former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi c
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An image on the computer at the Launch Control Centre on Wheeler Island showing (on the left) the electronically simulated attacker missile being killed by a 'digital' interceptor at an altitude of 120 km and, in the middle of the picture, a real target missile from Chandipur, Odisha, being neutralised by an actual interceptor missile at a height of 15 km.-DRDO

Shield in the sky

With the success of the DRDOs interceptor launch on November 23, India now has a defence shield capable of simultaneously destroying multiple long-ran
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Fuel of future

The Tummalapalle mine in Andhra Pradesh, commissioned in April, will help meet Indias demand for natural uranium, used in indigenous Pressurised Heavy
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Groping in the dark

Tamil Nadu saw little addition to its power generation capacity in the last 10 years. The political parties that have alternated in power during the p
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G. Kasturi acknowledges the grand ovation given by The Hindu employees as N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief, and N. Murali, Joint Managing Director, look on during The Hindu's 125th anniversary celebration in Chennai on September 13, 2003.-THE HINDU ARCHIVES

A complete Editor

G. Kasturi had an unparalleled record of leadership of The Hindu extending over four decades. As the Editor of the newspaper, he was committed setting
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Agni-V, the ballistic missile with a range of 5,000 km, being uploaded on to the road mobile launcher at Wheeler Island on April 12, a day before it was launched.-

Versatile, world class

The DRDO has achieved a high degree of self-reliance in its quest to develop new products. It is the technology hub for comprehensive national securit
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PSLV C-21 on its wayto put the French SPOT-6 and the Japanese PROITERES, both earth observation satellites, into orbit on September 9.-S.R. RAGHUNATHAN

Mission 100

With the experience of a century of missions, ISRO aims at sending a spacecraft to Mars.
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Excavations under way at Kodumanal. The Noyyal river is in the background, about 100 metres from the site. The excavations, which resumed after a gap of 13 years, indicate the presence of separate burial and industrial-cum-habitational areas.-K. RAJAN/V.P. YATHEES KUMAR

Unearthing an industrial past

Excavations this summer confirm earlier evidence that a multi-industrial culture existed in Kodumanal in Tamil Nadu.
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M. Narendra: Our present business has crossed Rs.3,30,000 crore.-BIJOY GHOSH

Enhancing visibility

Interview with M. Narendra, CMD, Indian Overseas Bank.
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