With the dumping of medical and other solid wastes into Tamil Nadu villages along the inter-state border creating a political furor, the Southern Bench of the NGT on Thursday directed the Kerala government to dispose them off within three days.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Monday alleged the BJP-led Union government despite lacking a majority to pass the One Nation One Poll legislation, is making a brazen attempt to push the same with an ulterior motive of conducting a presidential form of government.
In the Tamil literary sphere, Sahitya Akademi Award winner Imayam's work Koveru Kazhuthaigal landed as a tsunami, bringing him fame and criticism in equal measure.
Seven people, including a three-year-old boy, were burnt to death in a private hospital in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, on Thursday night.
Hours ahead of meeting Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin, key ally and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) president Thol Thirumavalavan on Monday suspended party deputy general secretary Aadhav Arjuna for six months his for continued offensive against the big brother
"Celebrities should act with restraint and with a sense of responsibility," the Aruna Jagadeesan Commission stated.
Earlier on Tuesday Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia urged West Bengal, Delhi and Punjab among eight states to reduce VAT on Air Turbine Fuel (ATF) for facilitating air connectivity to Tier-II, Tier-III cities.
Arumughaswamy Commission of Inquiry concluded that Sasikala, Jayalalithaa's personal Doctor K S Sivakumar, then Health Secretary Radhakrishnan, C.Vijayabaskar who was health Minister then are found to be at fault and an investigation is to be ordered.
Arumugasamy Commission report comes as a huge embarrassment for the AIADMK which was then in power. The Commission found lapses in the treatment of the former Tamil Nadu chief minister and hence sought probe against her aide Sasikala Natarajan and former health minister Vijayabhaskar.
Stalin had also warned the BJP-led Union government of DMK's continued opposition, and asked the government not to force another language war by imposing Hindi.
