Tag: Tamil Nadu

PM Modi and his government help release a a Catholic priest and another Catholic aid-worker from the clutches of death in Afghanistan. This gov't also help release Alexis Prem Kumar, a Jesuit priest abducted by Islamists in Afghanistan. More recently, this gov't also helped release Judith D’Souza, an aid worker… Read More

Dalits are Hindus too - they have equal right as any Hindu to visit any temple, to perform any ritual or take part in any religious festival. There were recent reports that during the five-day annual temple festival, the Dalits were denied entry into the temple. If we treat them… Read More

Five state assembly results just came out - Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. In general, Congress did very badly recording the lowest vote share. As the elections are behind us now both Congress members and the rest of the country that might still be paying attention is… Read More

For 15 long years, 600 workers and their families had been waging a battle with Hindustan Unilever over the mercury poisoning from the thermometer factory (now closed) in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu. Unilever finally agreed to an undisclosed settlement. Workers had said, the company had kept them in the dark about… Read More

Greenpeace India, a local NGO extension of Greenpeace international is staring at shutdown of its India operation as they have received a cancellation notice from the central and now Tamil Nadu government. It should be noted that such notices are not lightly issues and usually are backed by facts and… Read More