E-passport: Paternalism packaged in a chip
India is finally joining the digital identity race with its nationwide rollout of chip-enabled e-passports. Over 20,000 have already been issued in Tamil Nadu, and 13 cities are set to go live.
India is finally joining the digital identity race with its nationwide rollout of chip-enabled e-passports. Over 20,000 have already been issued in Tamil Nadu, and 13 cities are set to go live.
Making a concerted push in southern Tamil Nadu, Union Home Minister and BJP strategist Amit Shah on Sunday directed party functionaries to focus on 50 constituencies with the potential to win in the 2026 assembly election and work in tandem with allies.
Banners waved, cheers filled the air, and impromptu dance celebrations broke out, all in honor of the legendary actor and his newest cinematic venture.
In his first public appearance after the controversy over his ‘Kannada evolved from Tamil’ statement and a day after the Karnataka High Court took him to task, versatile actor Kamal Hassan on Wednesday thanked Tamil Nadu for understanding what he had said.
Effusive in his praise of his half-sister Kanimozhi for her declaration in Spain that ‘unity in diversity’ is the national language of India, which has gone viral, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and ruling DMK president MK Stalin on Wednesday said he is proud of her.
The Bharatiya Janata Party Tamil Nadu chief K Annamalai recently released audio tapes purportedly of Palanivel Thiaga Rajan accusing Chief Minister MK Stalin's family of "corruption".
AIADMK General Secretary and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Edappadi K. Palaniswami (EPS) will be meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Periyar was initially an enthusiastic supporter of Gandhi from the very inception of the Non-Cooperation Movement as he was aware of the narrow social base of the Congress and the dominance of lawyers within it before Gandhi took charge. The advent of Gandhi was significantly transformative as his political and social activities were such that everyone could participate and his principles could ‘be understood by all‘. The atavistic orientation of Gandhian principles like khadi, prohibition and abolition of untouchability were refreshingly new and novel
This comes days after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah seeking his intervention on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) recruitment examination.
Tamil Nadu Police have beefed up security across the state as the RSS will be conducting route marches at 45 places of the state. The route marches will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and there will be speeches at each concluding point.
