Tamil Nadu's Teacher Eligibility Test has commenced with enhanced security measures, a strict dress code and a ban on electronic devices as more than 2.29 lakh candidates appear across the state.
When India’s Delimitation Commission next convenes, it will inherit a task that no commission has faced in fifty years: the freedom to actually change how many parliamentary seats each state sends to the Lok Sabha.
On paper, the salary is Rs 30,000. In hand, it is Rs 7,000. That is the gap private school teachers in Tenkasi say they have been living with for years. Most are too scared to say so officially.
A 24-year-old newly-married woman died after reportedly losing her balance while trying to escape a troop of monkeys at a hilltop temple in Tamil Nadu's Kazhugumalai. Police have launched an investigation into the fatal accident.
For years, June 22 meant teasers, trailers, and first looks. This year, Keerthy Suresh says the fans got something bigger. A leader, not a character.
Continuing his tirade against the BJP-led Union Government and the Sangh parivar on the issue of Hindi imposition, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Thursday made it clear that demanding linguistic equality is neither a crime nor anti-national bigotry, but Godse’s ideology is.
Alas, slowly will Tamil perish/As languages of the West flourish.” This was a Tamil poet's fear in the early 20th century.
The all-party meeting convened by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to discuss issues related to the delimitation of constituencies will take place on Wednesday at the secretariat here. The BJP, NTK and the Tamil Maanila Congress have decided to boycott the meet.
Tamil Nadu’s political landscape is once again dominated by a familiar debate ~ Hindi imposition. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has revived the decades-old resistance against the language, making it a central theme ah ead of next year’s assembly elections.
It is interesting to note that most non-BJP states are picking up the language issue and appropriating it as a counter to the BJP that appears to be pushing Hindi, which has sparked off a war between Centre and Tamil Nadu that has spilled over into the National Education Policy.
