The Minister had earlier reiterated that the pending arrears of Rs 2152 crore to Tamil Nadu under the SSA programme would not be released until it accepted the NEP and implemented the three-language policy.
The Sri Lankan Navy has arrested ten fishermen, hailing from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, for allegedly trespassing into its territorial waters.
Keeping the heat on the Union Government over its rigid stand on the three-language formula and making it mandatory for the release of funds due for Tamil Nadu under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan(SSA) programme, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday warned that if imposition of Hindi is made compulsory, its destruction will become compulsory.
In a showdown with the Modi government for “intimidating” Tamil Nadu to accept the New Education Policy (NEP) and its three-language formula for release of Central funds for the state, Deputy Chief Minister and ruling DMK’s Youth Wing Secretary Udhayanidhi Stalin, on Tuesday, warned that the BJP-led Union government’s haughtiness would only lead to another uprising against Hindi imposition.
Seven students of a private college in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu have been booked under the POCSO Act for allegedly raping a minor girl who was befriended by one of the accused through a social media application, police said on Tuesday.
In a sensational development, a senior woman IPS officer has lodged a complaint with Director General of Police (DGP) Shankar Jiwal, alleging an attempt on her life through an office fire in July. She claims the incident occurred after she exposed gross irregularities in the recruitment of Sub-Inspectors (SIs) and other uniformed service positions.
Armed with recent research findings, Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday claimed iron age had commenced from the Tamil landscape, shattering the previously conceived notions as this region had possessed the technology to segregate iron from ore in 5300 BCE itself.
Sharpening Tamil Nadu’s opposition to the One Nation One Poll (ONOP) push of the Union Government, Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Saturday charged that it was designed to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the country’s dictator, which is not good even for the BJP.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu MG Ramachandran on his 108th birth anniversary on Friday.
Stopping short of accusing Chief Minister MK Stalin as anti-national, the Raj Bhavan on Sunday charged him of betraying the true intentions of the ‘coalition interests and ideologies’ which don't accept and respect Bharat as a nation.
