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With Cyclone Nivar advancing towards Tamil Nadu and expected to make landfall between Mamallapuram and Karaikal on the night of November 25, residents of Chennai and surrounds are worried that there could be a repeat of the nightmarish 2015 floods. On Wednesday, authorities announced the release of 1000 cusecs of…
Kuppan points to pushcarts lined up along the Marina beach at Foreshore Estate. “These are small shops that can be pushed away. Not so with a sugarcane juice stall,” he says. The 76-year-old, who had taken to managing such a sugarcane juice stall his mother Ponnammal set up decades ago…
At around 10.30 pm on Sunday night, J Gnanaraj Jesudasan heard a voice call out to his son. Jesudasan, 54, a journalist with Tamil publication Maalai Tamizhagam, went out to see who it was. Manoj Selvam, a young man known to them, had arrived and Jesudasan heard Manoj asking his…
The CBI’s report on the probe into the Sathankulam custodial deaths of Jeyaraj and Beniks details what took place on the fateful days between June 19 (when the duo was beaten) and June 23 in Thoothukudi district, when Beniks died a day after Jeyaraj. The Lede had earlier reported on…
The New Education Policy (NEP) has been seen from different prisms by various sections of society. But, one of the most striking ones is that the policy has not looked at the special needs of certain communities like the Scheduled Tribes. The Scheduled Tribes (STs) have been bracketed along with…
