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DMK deputy general secretary M K Stalin demanded that the government submit a white paper on the number of new industries set up in its tenure and the status of several memorandums of understanding signed with various agencies.

Cara Delevingne shares a super sweet moment with her co-star Nat Wolff while attending the special Q&A and live concert for their latest film Paper Towns at YouTube Space LA on Friday (July 17) in Los Angeles. The 22-year-old entertainer and Nat, 20, were joined on the red carpet by Halston Sage, Jaz Sinclair, writer [...]

The shooting happened near a meeting about the Site ‘C’ dam.

What We Do In the Shadows

Fiona Sturges; Radio critic of The Independent

Jeremy Corbyn is not going to win the Labour leadership election. The Labour Party may be losing its mind, but it is not so far gone that, having lost two elections, it would vote to make sure it loses a third.

There is a wonderful moment in Born in Exile (1892), George Gissing’s great late-Victorian novel of religious doubt and social advancement, when the hero, Godwin Peak, comes across a man with whom, some years before, he went to college in a Midlands town. Naturally, in the interval their paths have diverged – Peak is an embittered, class-conscious free-thinker; the Rev Bruno Chilvers, as he is now styled, a fashionable and ambitious clergyman. Even more of a distinction, though, is offered by... Читать дальше...

The future can still be orange

As someone who commissions, edits and writes book reviews, I am often asked when I am going to write my own first novel. The answer is, probably, never. Editing someone else’s writing is one thing. Reviewing it is another skill entirely. (And those critics who only like to pounce on the work of an inferior writer, and lay into it with great verbal dexterity are concealing an awkward secret: it is much harder to review great writing than bad.) However, I’ve read enough books both magnificent and... Читать дальше...

“Prepare your daughter for working life. Give her less pocket money than your son.” This slogan appeared on an Equal Opportunities Commission campaign poster 15 years ago. I keep it on my fridge to remind my son of his gender-induced entitlement.

Did anyone say “lame duck”? This was supposed to be when Barack Obama hit rock bottom, in the final stages of his second term, with the Republicans in complete control of Congress, attention switching to the next battle for the White House in 2016, and a President reduced to virtual irrelevancy. The perfect season, in short, for limping waterfowl.

It was starting to look like my dream summer. The sun was out … for a while. I’d been a guest on Test Match Special and I was going to introduce the lead singer of Supertramp on stage at the Cornbury Festival….

I spent last week in Karbala and Najaf, the Shia holy cities south-west of Baghdad, which I have always found to be among the wonders of the world. There is something entrancing and even magical about the sight of their golden domes and minarets rising above the roofs of the houses around them. I first saw the Shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf from the outside in 1977, but I was with a Baathist official who did not dare open the great wooden doors leading to the outer courtyard.

Softness is our strength

The footage of the Queen as a child in 1933 giving a Nazi salute should have stayed unseen. This newspaper would not have published it. Naturally there is huge interest in the footage, but public interest is not the same as being in the public interest, and The Sun’s attempt to defend publication fails to meet that test.

The real medical emergencies on Sunday's premiere episode of 'Save My Life: Boston Trauma,' from executive producer Terence Wrong, include a bullet to the brain and a hockey puck to the throat, and both of them are serious, potentially deadly, injuries.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday a landmark nuclear deal won't change his country's policy toward the "arrogant" U.S., making his first public speech since the Islamic Republic's historic pact with world powers.

Airport delays forced the postponement of Saturday night's WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and Connecticut Sun.

Airport delays forced the postponement of Saturday night's WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and Connecticut Sun.

Airport delays forced the postponement of Saturday night's WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and Connecticut Sun.

Airport delays forced the postponement of Saturday night's WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and Connecticut Sun.

China must learn lessons from its stock-market rout, the country’s vice finance minister said Saturday, signaling his intent to focus on supervision and the development of new frameworks to make it possible to weather any future market turbulence. The nation’s stock market plunged by nearly one-third at one stage this month from a mid-June peak, wiping about $4 trillion from share values as investors were spooked by speculation that China’s central bank was about to end its easing of monetary policy.

A misunderstanding about a documentary members of a tour to China watched in their hotel led to their detention, says a spokesman for two of the group.