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The gift box challenge in Election 2019 in Tamil Nadu

A new political party, Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK), has a problem: the pressure cooker symbol, on which its founder T.T.V. Dinakaran won hand

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NaMo TV: Country is watching the Election Commission

Leaders of most countries, including North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, do not have a television channel dedicated to themselves, but not so Prime Minister Na

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Propaganda on Facebook: AI defeats the “war machines”

Social media erupted late on April Fool’s Day after Facebook removed pages from its site over what it called “coordinated inauthentic behavior and spa

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Police officials who investigated Tamil Nadu sex scandal transferred

Finally, the police officials who presided over the investigation into the sex scandal in Pollachi near Coimbatore have been transferred. The transfer

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Public sector and the Model Code of Conduct

After I checked in for flight AI 9552 from Madurai to Chennai on March 29, I casually looked at the backside of the boarding pass to see what public m

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'Chowkidar' in my cup!

In Election 2019 it appears that a complaint made on social media about a model code violation elicits a better response than one that is actually fil

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In Sivaganga, a keenness to spread fake news

The spread of misinformation is increasing exponentially with each passing day in this Lok Sabha election. While much of this is the handiwork of the

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Politicians’ children, some acceptable and some not so, in the fray

Just over two decades ago, Pattali Makkal Katchi founder S. Ramadoss used to go around the northern districts of Tamil Nadu, where Vanniyars are a sig

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‘It began in Gujarat’

Interview with the Carnatic vocalist T.M. Krishna.

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Congress draws flak for candidates’ list

Even before campaigning for the first phase and second phases of the Lok Sabha election, on April 11 and 18, reaches its crescendo, the Congress has d

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Abhinandan Varthaman.

Return of a hero

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Union Minister and BJP leader Piyush Goyal with the AIADMK’s top leaders, Edappadi K. Palaniswami (left) and O. Panneerselvam, after the seat-sharing agreement, in Chennai on February 19.

Marriage of convenience

With much at stake for both parties, rivals All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam form practical alliances ahead of t

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