AUGUST 8, 2018
Looks like it is the design of RSS to deny our great leader @kalaignar89 a place in Marina, tweeted DMK's Saravanan Annadurai.
CHENNAI - DMK spokesperson Saravanan Annadurai, who also argued on behalf of the party at Madras High Court bench for burial of M Karunanidhi at Marina beach, blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the...
AUGUST 7, 2018
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner ordered the removal of stories in the New York Observer about his friends and peers when he owned the paper,
Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, in 2012 had editors at the newspaper delete "a handful of articles," according to Buzzfeed, citing emails obtained during its reporting.
The Buzzfeed report lists three articles that Kushner...
AUGUST 7, 2018
M. Karunanidhi in 1969, the year he became Tamil Nadu Chief Minister. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives
M. Karunanidhi (1924-2018) - A strong advocate of the rights of the State governments, State autonomy and federalism, he secured the right for Chief Ministers to hoist the national flag on Independence Day.
CHENNAI - M. Karunanidhi, five-time Tamil Nadu...
AUGUST 7, 2018
NEW YORK, NY - JULY 3: New U.S. citizens recite the Oath of Allegiance during naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library, July 3, 2018 in New York City. 200 immigrants from 50 countries became citizens during the ceremony, one day before America's Independence Day. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is...
AUGUST 7, 2018
A tweet shows a jet near the CN Tower in Toronto. (Screengrab/Twitter - Provided by Al Jazeera)
A group in Saudi Arabia apologized and deleted a Twitter post showing an image of an Air Canada passenger plane veering towards Toronto's tallest skyscraper with a warning against meddling in others' affairs.
Some on social media noted the image was reminiscent...
August 7, 2018
M. Karunanidhi. | Photo Credit: K.V. Srinivasan
CHENNAI - Muthuvel Karunanidhi, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, passed away at a private hospital in Chennai on August 7 after prolonged illness. He was 94.
The end came at 6.10 p.m., hours after the Kauvery Hospital announced that he was "extremely critical"...
AUGUST 7, 2018
Ghosh said the Tata Trusts Cancer Care Initiative is one of the largest health care programmes in the world
Former IndiGo Airlines CEO Aditya Ghosh has joined as a senior advisor of Tata Trusts and will advise the core team of its cancer care initiative. The Tata Trusts has identified cancer as a key area of focus and...
AUGUST 6, 2018
A seventh-generation Wisconsin kidney bean processor and supplier recently became an unexpected victim of the Trump administration's trade spat with Europe, a major trading partner.
The 28-nation European Union imposed tariffs on about 2.8 billion euros (over $3 billion) worth of U.S. products, effective June 20. Kidney beans, along with bourbon, peanut butter, cranberries and orange juice are...
AUGUST 6, 2018
Chennai's Kauvery Hospital, where the 94-year-old leader is admitted, said that maintaining his vital organ functions remain a challenge
Chennai: The health of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, who is admitted in Chennai's Kauvery hospital for more than a week, has taken a turn for the worse. The hospital said maintaining his vital organ functions remains a challenge in...
AUGUST 6, 2018
Istanbul, Turkey - January 16, 2016: Paper cubes with Popular social media services icons, including Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter and a Macbook Pro laptop computer on a wooden desk.
Facebook, WhatsApp on the list
The Centre has asked telecom service providers to explore possible ways to block mobile applications such as Facebook and WhatsApp “as per the provisions of...
