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Sruti M.D.
TN This Week: Health, Sanitation, and Other Workers Protest, Demand Job Security, Safety, and Fair Working Hours
26 Sep 2021
On September 23, the nomination process for the rural local body elections for nine districts ended, and the districts are set to go to polls on October 6 and 9.
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63 Elephants in Custody of Temples, Private Individuals in Tamil Nadu
25 Sep 2021
The Madras High Court has directed the state to ensure that no private individual captures an elephant.
Lakshmi Kanth Bharathi
TN: Post-Lockdown, Narikuravar Tribes Living in Chennai Struggle for Two Meals a Day
24 Sep 2021
Narikuravars, a nomadic tribe, are starving, since they are unable to sell their products and are not getting any welfare measures from the government, as they are not officially categorised as…
Sruti MD
TN This Week: COVID-19 Cases Rise, Shortage of Doses Hits Vaccination Drive
18 Sep 2021
117 senior students have tested positive since schools reopened on September 1.
Sruti MD
TN: PMK Leaves NDA For Local Body Polls, AIADMK-BJP Front Weaker now
15 Sep 2021
The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) has split away from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the upcoming rural local body elections.
Sruti MD
Is TN Govt’s Martyr Memorial for 21 Police Firing Deaths Manipulating History?
14 Sep 2021
During the mid and late 1980s, Vanniyars had mobilised against the government seeking special reservation based on social and economic backwardness. Yet, the main targets of the Vanniyar Sangam, the…
The Leaflet
Tamil Nadu Becomes Second State After Kerala to Establish Right to Sit for Workers
12 Sep 2021
The recent Tamil Nadu amendment bill seeks to provide mandatory seating facilities for employees in shops and establishments. Dr Kingshuk Sarkar writes about the need for other states to follow suit.
Bama, K Srilata, Swarnalatha Rangarajan
“There is No Such Thing as Equality Anywhere, We Need to Bring About Resistance”
12 Sep 2021
Bama, a Dalit writer, was born in 1957, at Pudupatti in Tamil Nadu. Fighting against impossible odds she went through school and college and trained as a teacher, and as such, tries to impart values…
Sruti MD
TN This Week: State Assembly Asks Centre to Repeal CAA, Slight Spike in COVID-19 Cases
11 Sep 2021
The TN assembly has also decided to erect several statues and memorials for a wide-range of leaders, which appears to be an attempt by the ruling DMK to assert its politics.
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COVID-19: Domestic Workers Still Face Isolation
10 Sep 2021
Most of the domestic workers in India are women and they do this work while taking care of their own families.