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Tamil Nadu Assembly adopts resolution against Karnataka’s Mekedatu dam plan
The House urged the Union government not to grant clearances for the project, which it says will impede the free flow of water from the Cauvery river.
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Tamil Nadu: DMK MLA arrested for making allegedly derogatory remarks about CM Vijay
“Being a member of the legislative assembly, what kind of speech you have spoken?” Live Law quoted the bench as asking. … You are a member of the Assembly.”Radhakrishnan had argued that his speech should not attract the sections he has been charged under.
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The lost fragment of a Netaji memorial and the search that crossed borders
Determined that this last remnant of a monument associated with the leader they called Netaji should not be lost, they secretly carried the relic back to India, risking punishment at … Credit: Facebook.com/GeneralShahNawazKhan.Following up on the legislative prompt, the Pakistan-Afghanistan section of the Ministry of External Affairs contacted the Indian Embassy in
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Start the week with a film: In Tokyo Sonata, the unequal music of an emotionally distant family
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s acclaimed drama is available on MUBI.
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Suresh Triveni on the ‘beautiful mess’ that is ‘Maa Behen’ and whether a sequel is on the way
‘In the previews, there were chuckles where we thought we would get the maximum laughter, and laughs in places where we didn’t expect it.’
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Why does India’s Constitution include preventive detention? TM Krishna’s book examines the reasons
to argue that the makers of the Constitution did not know what they were doing when they introduced preventive detention into the Fundamental Rights clause. … the Constituent Assembly debates.Dr BR Ambedkar, head of the Drafting Committee, in his final speech in the Constituent Assembly on November 25, 1949, averred that the nature of the
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Why does India’s Constitution include preventive detention? TM Krishna’s book examines the reasons
BR Ambedkar was a votary of preventive detention. However, he did warn that ‘if hereafter things go wrong, we will have nobody to blame except ourselves.’
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VD Savarkar was released due to political pressure, not mercy pleas, grandnephew tells Pune court
He was freed from jail owing to the ‘efforts made in National Assembly in 1937’, claimed Satyaki Savarkar.
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West Bengal elections: In half the seats BJP won, SIR deletions outnumber victory margin
The bulk of these seats are ones that the Hindutva party has never won before.
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Tamil Nadu: DMK MLA arrested for making allegedly derogatory remarks about CM Vijay
The action came hours after the Madras High Court denied anticipatory bail to the Tiruchendur legislator.
2026-07-03