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The Hindu Political heat continues in Telangana with Graduate MLC election coming up

May 27 bypoll necessitated after BRS MLA Palla Rajeshwar Reddy resigned as MLC; to be a test for the ruling Congress party to prove its following among the educated section

The Hindu Trade imbalance: on India’s merchandise exports

A sharp spike in the import bill blights April’s mild uptick in exports

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The popularity of concise social media content has the potential to impact political outcomes

The Hindu The storming of Siruganur police station by militants, led by a railway employee

They attacked the police station in the village in Tiruchi district in the middle of the night on February 15, 1962, and looted arms and ammunition. Investigation revealed that the attackers, belonging to ‘Viduthalai Padai’, turned out to be self-styled revolutionaries who wanted to take on the system, which they believed betrayed them

The Hindu F. W. Ellis who died in his prime by accidental consumption of poison

The Collector of Madras had also penned commentaries on Purananooru, Naladiyar, Seevaka Sinthamani, Bharatham, and Prabulingaleelai. He was a pioneer in propounding that the Dravidian languages were interrelated and not derived from Sanskrit

The Hindu When the historic Civil Disobedience Movement rolled out on the east coast

A week after the Dandi March, Gandhi’s associate C. Rajagopalachari assumed the responsibility of leading the protest in the Tamil land. He marched about 150 miles with Satyagrahis from Trichinopoly to Vedaranyam. At the dawn of April 30, 1930, Rajaji and a few others picked up a fistful of salt near Agasthiyampalli and were arrested

The Hindu Yet another bomb threat reported on Delhi-Vadodara Air India flight at Delhi airport

A crew member found a tissue paper with the word “bomb” written on it in the aircraft’s washroom, police said