Tamil Nadu: 2012 Year In Review: Top 10 News

1. As an NRI desi: Indian Foreigners vs Europe Locals

2. Crime and Punishment: People taking law in their own hands vs Turning blind eye to Law abusing Common Man

3. Influential Celebrity: Chinamyee, Karthi Chidambaram were in Social Media vs Karunanidhi enters Twitter and FB

4. Anti-Growth Lobbyists: Power cuts for citizens vs Koodankulam Nuclear Energy

5. Eternal Conservatives: Love Marriages vs Inter-caste Protection

6. Nature vs Man made: Cyclone Nilam and Thane vs Tamil Nadu Express Fire

7. Forces beyond us: God-men Nithyananda vs Foreign hand ISI in Tamil Nadu

8. Repeatability vs Consistency: Sivakasi Fire Accidents vs. Sri Lanka arresting TN Fishermen

9. Dengue Returns vs Former telecom Minister A Raja Returns

10. Ka series: Highly Expected and stayed in limelight but never came out – Kadal, Kochaidaiyaan, Kalaam, Kaveri

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2012

• Biological sciences
  • Shantanu Chowdhury of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
  • Suman Kumar Dhar of the Special Centre for Molecular Medicine at the Jawaharlal Nehru University

• Chemical sciences
  • Govindsamy Mugesh of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc)
  • Gangadhar J Sanjayan of the CSIR National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

• Engineering sciences
  • Ravishankar Narayanan of IISc
  • Y Shanthi Pavan of Indian Institute of Technology – Madras

• Mathematical sciences
  • Siva Ramachandran Athreya
  • Debashish Goswami of the Indian Statistical Institute

• Medical sciences
  • Sandip Basu of the Radiation Medicine Centre at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

• Physical sciences
  • Arindam Ghosh of IISc
  • Krishnendu Sengupta of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science