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Its Time We Start Valuing Women’s Household Work by Paying Homemakers Paying salaries to women for housework can give women respect, recognition, dignity and empowerment. The question then is, who will pay for it? Chhaya Kharade, 36, an unemployed farm labourer makes tea inside her house in Chincholi, India, March 12, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui – Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework (1975) Shashi Tharoor tweeted on January 5, 2021, “I welcome @ikamalhaasanâ€�...

Updated: The major news headlines of the day, and more. Share Article AAA A health worker checks the temperature of a woman at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai on March 17, 2021.   | Photo Credit: VIVEK BENDRE The major news headlines of the day, and more. Maharashtra alone accounts for 61.8% of the daily new cases with 17,864 cases. It is followed by Kerala with 1,970 while Punjab reported 1,463 new cases, the Health Ministry said. Kerala is reporting a consistently declin...

DMK practices dynastic politics, AIADMK does not, says Palaniswami ANI | Updated: Mar 17, 2021 19:51 IST Thiruvarur (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 17 (ANI): Ahead of Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami slammed opposition parties and said that DMK is a family party and AIADMK is not like that. "Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is a family party. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) is not like that. If ...

Sugata Srinivasaraju Small Large Of all the states going to polls this election season, the BJP seems least invested in Tamil Nadu, where new and old regional parties, with new leaders like Kamal Hasan in the fray, are going to take centre-stage Currently, the mood is one of elections in India. That is a movement away from being under a sombre Covid-19 cloud for a full year. As the vaccination programme progresses, the knob of anxiety has slowly started moving in the anti-clockwise direction. E...

Updated: March 18, 2021 00:27 IST The DMK president highlighted the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the State, and reiterated that every life was important Share Article AAA DMK president M.K. Stalin addressing an election campaign meeting in Vadamadurai near Dindigul on Wednesday.   | Photo Credit: Karthikeyan G The DMK president highlighted the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the State, and reiterated that every life was important DMK president, M.K. Stalin, on Wednesday appealed t...

Transport Minister Vijayabhaskar is taking on his long-time rival Senthil Balaji The Karur constituency is poised for a high-octane battle of heavyweights, with Transport Minister M.R. Vijayabhaskar of the AIADMK and former Transport Minister V. Senthil Balaji of the DMK crossing swords. Amid mutual accusations over the use of money power, the constituency is witnessing fierce and hectic electioneering. Mr. Balaji returned to his home turf with the aim of taking Mr. Vijayabhaskar, his long-time...

by Aravindan Neelakandan - Mar 17, 2021 11:40 AM D Kuppuramu and the Ram Setu. Snapshot Today, Ramanathapuram is also notorious as a hotbed of Islamist radicalisation in Tamil Nadu. It is from such a seat that the BJP has fielded D Kuppuramu, an RSS leader and advocate. One does not have to know the historicity of the Sri Ram Setu to save it. For all one knows, it may even be a natural formation. But the puranic sacredness of Sri Ram Setu is more real than any historicity. It is a part of ...

Synopsis The AIADMK and DMK have both bet on phased re- introduction of prohibition and closure of liquor outlets in a staggered manner in their manifestos. ANI Its election time and prohibition is back in focus in Tamil Nadu where the dry law was lifted about five decades ago. Political parties, including the ruling AIADMK, opposition DMK and Congress, have pitched for a complete ban on liquor, albeit in a phased manner, making the promise in their respective manifestos for the April 6 assembl...

Updated: March 18, 2021 00:25 IST The DMK president said the CM has pledged the rights of the State to the Centre: “We are losing one right after the other,” he said Share Article AAA DMK president M.K. Stalin addresses an election campaign in Madurai on Wednesday   | Photo Credit: R. Ashok The DMK president said the CM has pledged the rights of the State to the Centre: “We are losing one right after the other,” he said Any victory for the BJP in the Assembly elections will be harmful ...

BJP looks for toehold as Dravidian parties sweat it out in Tamil Nadu SECTIONS Share Synopsis Arithmetically while the DMK looks like it is ahead of the AIADMK, analysts warn not to underestimate the goodwill that the current chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) has earned, especially over the past two years with his industry-friendly image and handling of Covid-19. Agencies The battle for Tamil Nadus 234 assembly seats is turning into the kind of soap opera that is expected of politics ...