Divya Chandrababu is an award-winning political and human rights journalist based in Chennai, India. Divya is presently Assistant Editor of the Hindustan Times where she covers Tamil Nadu & Puducherry. She started her career as a broadcast journalist at NDTV-Hindu where she anchored and wrote prime time news bulletins. Later, she covered politics, development, mental health, child and disability rights for The Times of India. Divya has been a journalism fellow for several programs including the Asia Journalism Fellowship at Singapore and the KAS Media Asia- The Caravan for narrative journalism. Divya has a master's in politics and international studies from the University of Warwick, UK. As an independent journalist Divya has written for Indian and foreign publications on domestic and international affairs.
Articles by Divya Chandrababu
Centre grants clearance to Parandur Airport
The Union government has granted clearance for the greenfield airport in Tamil Nadu’s Parandur, which has faced stiff opposition from locals who are to be displaced due to the project.
Updated on Jul 23, 2024 08:18 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
‘Mining no crime under PMLA’: HC restrains ED action
The ED had filed its Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) last September against contractors and other suppliers of machineries, including excavators allegedly over illegal sand mining case.
Updated on Jul 18, 2024 08:28 AM IST
TN Home Secretary among several IAS officers transferred amidst criticism over law & order
Tamil Nadu government transfers Home Secretary P Amudha among 60 officials. Dheeraj Kumar replaces her. Chief Minister MK Stalin initiates reshuffle amid criticism over law and order.
Updated on Jul 17, 2024 06:40 AM IST
NTK functionary, 50, out on morning walk hacked to death in Madurai
C Balasubramanian, 50, was on a morning walk near his house when he was attacked in Madurai district 500km from state capital Chennai.
Published on Jul 16, 2024 04:37 PM IST
Accused in BSP leader’s murder shot dead: Police
The Chennai police on Sunday gunned down a key accused in the murder of BSP Tamil Nadu unit chief K Armstrong after he allegedly attacked a policeman and attempted to flee custody, police said.
Updated on Jul 15, 2024 06:08 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Madras HC asks why BJP minister Shobha Karandlaje linked Tamil Nadu with Rameshwaram Cafe blast
The Madras High Court on Wednesday questioned Union Minister of State (Mos) Shobha Karandlaje on her public claim that the bombers involved in Bengaluru’s Rameshwararm Cafe blast had been trained in Tamil Nadu even before the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches in Chennai.
Updated on Jul 12, 2024 08:46 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Madras HC asks Karandlaje basis for linking TN with Rameshwaram cafe blast
An IED explosion rocked the Rameshwaram cafe on ITPL Road, Brookefield, Bengaluru, on March 1, injuring about 10 people
Published on Jul 11, 2024 04:50 PM IST
Annamalai files defamation case against DMK leader
Annamalai has demanded ₹1 crore as compensation and legal action on Bharathi. He said the compensation received from this case will be used to construct and operate an alcohol-deaddiction centre in Kallakurichi
Updated on Jul 11, 2024 08:04 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Hooch tragedy, BSP leader’s death makes today’s Vikravandi bypolls a tough challenge for DMK
Bypoll in Vikravandi, Tamil Nadu on July 9 sees DMK and PMK as main contenders amid hooch tragedy and political challenges. AIADMK boycotts, NDA hopes to gain momentum.
Updated on Jul 10, 2024 07:46 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Stalin meets slain BSP leader’s wife, assures justice
11 suspects have been arrested in connection with Armstrong’s murder, with the Chennai police suspecting the involvement of associates of gangster Arcot Suresh, who was murdered in August last year
Updated on Jul 10, 2024 07:44 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai/new Delhi
Tamil Nadu CM forms panel to suggest amendments in new criminal laws
Retired Madra high court judge M Sathyanarayanan will submit his report to the state government within in a month, the government said in a statement.
Updated on Jul 09, 2024 03:56 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Chennai top cop replaced in major rejig days after BSP leader’s killing
Chennai police commissioner transferred after BSP leader's murder. New commissioner A Arun vows to address rowdyism and corruption within the police.
Updated on Jul 09, 2024 03:50 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
3 more suspects arrested in BSP leader Armstrong’s murder case
52-year-old BSP Tamil Nadu president K Armstrong was murdered on the night of June 5 near his residence in Chennai, eight people surrendered to the police
Updated on Jul 08, 2024 06:48 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Madras HC allows BSP leader’s burial in Tiruvallur
Armstrong’s wife had petitioned the court seeking to bury her husband in a vacant land in the city’s BSP party office and for a memorial to be built to perpetuate his Dalit ideals
Updated on Jul 08, 2024 06:44 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
BSP Tamil Nadu chief hacked to death in Chennai: Police
According to the police, the BSP leader was attacked by a group of six people who came on three bikes, attacked him with knives and fled the scene
Updated on Jul 06, 2024 11:14 AM IST
Tamil Nadu BSP chief K Armstrong killed near his residence: Police
Tamil Nadu BSP president K Armstrong was allegedly murdered in Chennai. Police have formed a special team to track suspects.
Updated on Jul 06, 2024 05:53 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Discontent grows in Puducherry BJP unit after Lok Sabha loss
A rebellion is brewing in the Puducherry unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as MLAs raised their angst against party member and home minister A Namassivayam and the N Rangasamy-led All India N R Congress (AINRC) government.
Updated on Jul 05, 2024 07:00 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Actor Vijay calls for NEET ban, flags bias
Vijay supported a resolution passed by the ruling DMK government in the assembly on June 28, demanding that the Union Government scrap NEET by amending the National Medical Commission
Updated on Jul 04, 2024 09:16 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Plea challenges Hindi names for 3 criminal laws, HC seeks govt reply
The plea challenged the names saying Hindi is not the mother tongue of 56.37% of Indians and only nine states and two union territories have hindi as official language
Updated on Jul 04, 2024 09:10 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Gold smuggling bust sparks political row
The DMK accused a Chennai-based BJP functionary allegedly associated with Vidvedaa and close to the party’s state and national leaders of playing a role in the smuggling
Updated on Jul 03, 2024 08:34 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Tamil Nadu panel submits draft education policy to CM
After forming the government in 2021, chief minister MK Stalin had announced during their first budget that they will come up with an education policy exclusively for Tamil Nadu
Updated on Jul 02, 2024 07:30 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Tamil Nadu passes resolution urging Union government to abolish NEET
The Tamil Nadu assembly on Friday adopted a resolution urging the Union government to abolish the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), amend the National Medical Commission Act and revert to the previous system of state-based medical admissions using Class 12 marks, amid protests across the country over allegations of irregularities and paper leaks in this year’s medical entrance examination.
Updated on Jun 29, 2024 09:14 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Tamil Nadu CM: Will amend prohibition act to curb manufacture, sale of arrack
Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin announced on Friday that the ruling DMK will amend the Tamil Nadu Prohibition Act, 1937, to ensure stringent punishment for manufacturing and selling illicit liquor, even as the toll in the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy rose to 65 within a week.
Updated on Jun 29, 2024 08:52 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Tamil Nadu government to move Centre seeking caste census: CM
Stalin also announced the government’s plans to upgrade 10,000km of rural roads at an outlay of ₹4,000 crore under the Chief Minister’s Rural Road Development Scheme, which was extended by two years
Updated on Jun 25, 2024 08:12 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Opposition targets DMK over hooch tragedy, demands CBI inquiry
EPS announced that along with the other AIADMK MLAs, he would submit a petition to governor RN Ravi, demanding a CBI inquiry into the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy
Updated on Jun 25, 2024 08:06 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Stalin steps up attack on Centre over NEET-PG, NET cancellation
A report by the retired justice A K Rajan-led committee showed that the average of government school students enrolled in MBBS courses went from 14.44% in the pre-NEET period to a negligible 1.7% in 2020- 21 post-NEET
Updated on Jun 24, 2024 08:06 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Families of Kallakurichi victims shattered, question availability of hooch
Almost every street held a funeral while several bodies were lined up for cremation in Karunapuram, which is at the center of the hooch tragedy in Kallakurichi district of Tamil Nadu.
Updated on Jun 21, 2024 08:44 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Families of Kallakurichi victims shattered, question availability of hooch
The death toll in the hooch tragedy in Kallakurichi district of Tamil Nadu increased to 38 on Thursday while over 100 people remained hospitalised, officials said, as the incident triggered a political row with the opposition AIADMK attacking the DMK government and demanding the resignation of chief minister MK Stalin over the tragedy.
Updated on Jun 21, 2024 08:32 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
Kallakurichi hooch tragedy: Death toll rises to 33; CM Stalin suspends SP, orders CID probe
The CM has ordered an investigation by the Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Department into the incident which has caused a major uproar in Tamil Nadu
Updated on Jun 20, 2024 10:12 AM IST
YSRCP MP’s daughter gets bail after running over man in Chennai
A 22-year-old man, who was sleeping on a pavement in Chennai, was killed after the daughter of YSR Congress Party Rajya Sabha MP Beeda Masthan Rao allegedly ran her luxury car over him, police said.
Updated on Jun 20, 2024 09:04 AM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
