November 11, 2022 2:24 pm
Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed by an LTTE suicide bomber at an election meeting in Tamil Nadu’s Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991.
May 23, 2022 8:41 am
Others like him — who have fallen through the cracks of our criminal justice system, which fails to learn from its mistakes — might not be so lucky
May 22, 2022 9:59 am
S Prabu Rama Subramanian writes: It gave me a perspective on human rights, lives of prisoners, and the politics of power. It also made me empathise with the failed attempts of Arpudham Ammal to bring her son Perarivalan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, out of prison.
May 23, 2022 1:38 am
The Congress’s silence over Stalin’s warm welcome to Perarivalan is telling. The DMK and Stalin are now closer to the Congress than ever before.
May 20, 2022 12:20 pm
Perarivalan release SC order: The Congress party said its stand against AG Perarivalan's release and key ally DMK supporting it would not affect ties between the 2 partners.
May 21, 2022 7:59 am
From the row over Varanasi and Mathura mosques to the latest from the Cannes Film Festival, here are the top reads from today’s edition.
May 20, 2022 12:21 pm
The verdict reaffirms a cardinal principle of the country's polity: “The Governor occupies the position of the head of the executive in the State but it is virtually the Council of Ministers in each State that carries on the executive Government.”
May 20, 2022 9:20 am
K Chandru writes: Successive governments subverted the constitutional scheme to deny relief to convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
May 21, 2022 7:34 am
The Supreme Court order came 24 years after Perarivalan was sentenced to death in the case by a lower court, and two months after he was granted bail by the apex court.
May 19, 2022 7:54 am
A jolt for Congress ahead of the Gujarat polls, the row over Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque and Rajiv Gandhi murder convict A G Perarivalan’s long road to freedom – here are the top reads from today’s edition




