Stalin Explains To Shanmugam Reason For Cut In No. Of Seats Chennai: Signs of an end to the deadlock between DMK and CPM emerged on Sunday after chief minister M K Stalin invited CPM state secretary P Shanmugam for talks and explained the rationale behind reducing the number of seats. During the talks, Stalin offered…
CHENNAI: After days of wrangling over additional seats, Tamilaga Vazhvurimai Katchi led by T Velmurugan walked out of the DMK alliance on Sunday. Velmurugan, however, ruled out joining NDA. “We will not be part of the BJP alliance, which divides people on the lines of religion,” Velmurugan told reporters in Chennai. Watch Tamil Nadu Polls…
Chennai: A man was electrocuted while attempting to close a window, when a portion of the window frame came in contact with a nearby transformer, at Maraimalai Nagar on Thursday night. The deceased, R Rajkumar, 26, from Arasur in Villupuram district, was staying on the first floor of a house on Silappathikaram Street in Maraimalai…
Section 17 lands in O’Valley in Gudalur region in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu govt’s delay in implementing Section 17 of the Gudalur Janmam Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1969, which has lasted about six decades, has led to widespread encroachments, including along elephant corridors in O’Valley within the Gudalur taluk…
CHENNAI: Nomination for the upcoming election can be filed only for five days as three days between March 30 and April 6 are government holidays, Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer Archana Patnaik said on Monday.Addressing journalists a day after the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) came into force, Patnaik said March 31, April 3 and…
BJP attacks CM Stalin over women safety in Tamil Nadu CHENNAI: BJP National Spokesperson CR Kesavan on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the DMK-led Tamil Nadu government, accusing chief minister MK Stalin of failing to address the growing incidents of violence against women in the state.Speaking to news agency ANI, Kesavan drew a striking…
The federation demanded that the govt formulate a scientific veterinary manpower policy COIMBATORE: Students of all the seven govt veterinary colleges and research institutes in Tamil Nadu staged a three-hour protest from 9am to noon on Friday demanding that the state govt reconsider its decision to privatise veterinary education. They demanded that the govt create…
Chennai: The state highways department has begun major widening works at the Padi rail overbridge (ROB) on Jawaharlal Nehru Salai (Inner Ring Road).The ongoing work, worth 139 crores, will expand the existing three-lane bridge into a dual five-lane structure and widen the narrow approach stretch towards Padi, a long-standing traffic bottleneck on the corridor.Highways chief…
To educate children to respect the law is not to deny them the tools of critique. It is to sequence those tools responsibly. Srimathi Venkatachari Recently, a Class VIII National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) social science textbook with a section describing “corruption in the judiciary” made headlines.Supreme Court took suo motu cognisance…
The decision to contest on an independent symbol in a constituency was taken at the high-level committee meeting held at their party headquarters in Chennai on Tuesday . CHENNAI: MDMK on Wednesday signed an agreement with DMK to contest in four constituencies in the upcoming assembly election in Tamil Nadu. According to the agreement, MDMK…
