| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Editor | S. Manimaran |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Language | Tamil |
| Headquarters | Madurai,Tamil Nadu |
| Website | thinaboomi |
Thinaboomi is aTamil dailynewspaper headquartered in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. The newspaper was established in the late 1990s by S. Manimaran. It is printed and published fromChennai,Coimbatore,Madurai,Salem,Tiruchirappalli,Tirunelveli,Vellore andPondicherry.
In 2010,Thinaboomi's editor S. Manimaran and his son Ramesh Kumar were arrested by the police. The pair subsequently alleged they were harassed due to political pressure as a result of covering theMadurai granite scandal.[1][2][3] In the following years, the Press Council of India and the newly elected Tamil Nadu government supported the editor in his case to get the case dropped.[4][5]