NAMAKKAL: Chief minister M K Stalin unveiled Tamil scholar and writer 'Silampoli' Su Chellappan's statue at Siviyampalayam in Namakkal district on Saturday. He unveiled the statue through video conferencing from Chennai. Recalling Chellappan's passion for Tamil, Stalin said he was the first student who raised voice against the Hindi language when the then central government attempted to make it the...
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin has written to Amit Shah, opposing the non-inclusion of Tamil in the computer test for recruitment to the CRPF, saying the notification mandating only the use of English and Hindi was ‘discriminatory’ and ‘unilateral’. According to a state government release on Sunday, of the 9,212 vacancies in the CRPF, 579 had to be filled from Tamil Nadu, the exam for which...
It's never easy to bid goodbye to Bollywood, because years of blood, sweat and perseverance goes into making it big in the world of movies. Yet, prominent names like Priyanka Chopra and AR Rahman left B-Town for Hollywood. Others like Preity Zinta and Sahil Khan moved into other careers and business opportunities. While some like Imran Khan, Twinkle Khanna, Zayed Khan and Fardeen Khan just hung up their...
CHENNAI: On a day when Aavin said a categorical 'no' to Food Safety and Standards Commission of India's (FSSAI) proposal to print 'Dahi' in Hindi on curd packets, chief minister M K Stalin called FSSAI's directive a "brazen disregard to our mother tongue."Stalin tweeted: "The unabashed insistences of Hindi Imposition have come to the extent of directing us to label even a curd packet in Hindi,...
Priyanka Chopra has stirred the hornet’s nest with her recent statements and the internet is yet to come to terms with the unsettling revelations and confessions. ETimes delves deep into Priyanka’s allegations of politics in Bollywood. What’s the Karan Johar connection here? What’s the story behind Kangana Ranaut’s claims? Who are the people involved in ending Priyanka’s Bollywood career? Is...
The extensive travel and the ongoing excitement in the USA leading up to the Oscars, seem to have taken their collective toll on maverick music maker MM Keeravani. He is now down with Covid.“All the travel and excitement have caught up with me. I am down with COVID and under medication and complete bedrest,” Keeravani tells us.He looks back at all the excitement leading up to the Oscars with...
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