Dinakaran

Daily Tamil Newspaper from Tamil Nadu

Dinakaran is a Tamil daily newspaper distributed in India. It was founded by K. P. Kandasamy in 1977. It is currently owned by the Sun Network group.[1] Dinakaran is the second largest distributed Tamil daily in India after Dina Thanthi.[2][3][4]It is printed in 12 cities across India. These cities are Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Nagercoil, Pondicherry, Salem, Tiruchirappalli, Tirunelveli and Vellore.

Attack case

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Dinakaran published the result of a opinion polls. The poll was about people's wish of who will become the next leader of DMK. The results said that 70% of the people support Stalin while only 2% support Alagiri. Dinakaran daily's office were bombed by Alagiri supporters. In this attack case, 3 were dead .[5][6] This led to the resignation of Central Minister Dayanidhi Maran, brother of Kalanidhi Maran from the Union Cabinet.[7]

Reference

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  1. "Sun acquires Dinakaran newspaper". rediff.com. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
  2. "Details of most circulated publications for the audit period Jul-Dec 2014" (PDF). Audit Bureau of Circulations. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  3. Judy Franko (13 March 2010). "Tamil daily Dinakaran takes over the lead". exchange4media.com. Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
  4. "India's 15 most-read newspapers". rediff.com. 5 May 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
  5. "Sun Network accuses Alagiri as being main culprit in Dinakaran attack". DNA India. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  6. "TN: 2 killed as Dinakaran office set afire". Rediff. 9 May 2007.
  7. "DMK kicks out Dayanidhi, brings in Raja as Minister". CNN-IBN. 15 May 2007. Archived from the original on 9 February 2008. Retrieved 30 April 2018.