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Disgraced Tamil Leader Heads To Jail Over Graft

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Disgraced Indian politician VK Sasikala prepared Wednesday to hand herself over to begin a four-year jail term for corruption, days before she had been due to become chief minister of Tamil Nadu. Sasikala set off by car from her base in the southern state’s capital Chennai to Bangalore where she will serve her sentence, a … Read more

Indian State Tamil Nadu Gets Another Female Chief Minister

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India’s southern Tamil Nadu state is to have another female chief minister, two months after the death of influential politician J Jayalalitha. The ruling AIADMK party said Sasikala Natarajan would become the next chief minister following the resignation of the acting chief minister. A close confidante of Jayalalitha, Sasikala was made the general secretary of … Read more