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TIRUCHI, TAMILNADU: 07/05/2017: Students coming out after finishing their National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) Exam at the Mahatma Gandhi Centenary Vidhyalaya school , in Tiruchi on Sunday. Photo: M. Srinath

Testing times

NEET revives the debate in Tamil Nadu on the efficacy of a centralised examination for admission to medical and dental courses which may nullify the s

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PUDUKOTTAI, TAMILNADU, 01/03/2017:FOR DAILY:- Residents and Public staging 14th day protest against hydrocarbon project at Neduvasal Village in Pudukotai district on Wednesday. Photo. M. Moorthy

Anxiety over land

The Central government’s decision to commence work on the hydrocarbon project in the Neduvasal field in Pudukottai district of Tamil Nadu under its ne

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa's residence at Poes Garden, Chennai is witnessing a beehive of activity on March 05, 2006, due to forthcoming Assembly elections.
Photo: R. Ragu

The last word

It took two decades for the judiciary to bring the disproportionate assets case against Jayalalithaa to closure, but, in the end, the Supreme Court hi

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BANGALORE, KARNATAKA, 27/09/2014: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa arriving at the Special Court near the Central Jail in Bangalore on September 27, 2014, in connection with the disproportionate assets case.
Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

A trial of two decades

The timeline of the “disproportionate assets” case against Jayalalithaa reveals the evasive tactics she employed to delay the trial and the verdict.

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TOPSHOT - Indian onlookers watch the launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C37) at Sriharikota on Febuary 15, 2017.
India successfully put a record 104 satellites from a single rocket into orbit on February 15 in the latest triumph for its famously frugal space agency. Scientists who were at the launch in the southern spaceport of Sriharikota burst into applause as the head of India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced all the satellites had been ejected. / AFP PHOTO / ARUN SANKAR

Stellar feat

ISRO puts 104 satellites into orbit in a single launch, in itself an achievement, but the real challenge was to release them in a predetermined sequen

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TIRUCHI A view the Dry Kalyana odai canal in Thanjavur District.

Falling water table and a dry river

The Cauvery is dry and the groundwater table is fast receding in the delta districts. Farmers’ leaders call for long-term measures to restore the grou

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TIRUCHI : TAMILNADU : 07/01/2017: K.Gandhi,with his withered maize crop at Tirupattur in Tiruchi District,due to drought..Photo: B.Velankanni Raj

Withering lives

Tamil Nadu is in the grip of the worst drought in living memory after both the monsoons failed, and scores of farmers have killed themselves or died o

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Vijayawada: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam in a meeting with his Andhra Pradesh Counterpart Chandrababu Naidu in Vijayawada on Thursday. PTI Photo/DIPR(PTI1_12_2017_000264A)

Crucial steps

The Chief Minister declares all the 32 districts of Tamil Nadu drought-affected and announces a relief package. Opposition parties welcome the announc

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TIRUNELVELI, TAMIL NADU, 12/10/2016: The extreme dry condition of the major reservoir Papanasam Dam in Tirunelveli District, now it have 14 feet water out of 143 feet.
Photo: A. Shaikmohideen

Dry and dreary

With dams, reservoirs and other waterbodies almost dry, all the 32 districts of Tamil Nadu and Chennai city face the prospect of a water famine.

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Keezhadi treasures caught in a swirl

The Archaeological Survey of India’s decision to shift Sangam-age artefacts excavated at Keezhadi to its office in Bengaluru faces stiff opposition in

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CHENNAI; TAMILNADU 29/12/2016; Banner of AIADMK general council meeting the party paying tributes to Jayalalithaa and V.K. Sasikala appointed as AIADMK general secretary of the party at Vanagaram, on Thursday Photo: M_PRABHU
சென்னை: தமிழ்நாடு: 29-12-2016: அதிமுக பொதுக்குழுக் கூட்டம் நடைபெற்ற மண்டபத்துக்கு வெளியே கையில் பூங்கொத்துடன் முன்னாள் முதல்வர் ஜெயலலிதா காட்சியளித்த பிரம்மாண்ட ஃப்ளெக்ஸ் பேனர் வைக்கப்பட்டிருந்தது. பொதுச்செயலாளராக சசிகலா தேந்தெடுக்கப்படுவதாக பொதுக்குழுவில் அறிவிக்கப்பட்டவுடன், அந்த பேனர் மீது ஏற்கெனவே தயார் செய்து வைக்கப்பட்டிருந்த பேனை பொருத்தப்பட்டது. அதில் கையில் பூங்கொத்துடன் சசிகலா இருக்க அருகில் புன்னகைத்தபடி காட்சியளிக்கிறார் ஜெயலலிதா. படம்.ம.பிரபு.

Sasikala’s party

Jayalalithaa’s confidante V.K. Sasikala takes the reins of the AIADMK with the support of leaders. Will the cadre endorse it?

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Uncertain outcome

Jayalalithaa’s demise renders uncertain the verdict in the case of disproportionate wealth against her, on which the Supreme Court reserved its verdic

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