Anna Nagar’s upcoming election features a multi-cornered contest, moving beyond its Dravidian stronghold history. There’s only one more day to go for polling, and all anyone can talk about in Anna Nagar, during their morning walks around Tower Park or over tumblers of tea at Shenoy Nagar, are the constituency’s candidates and their chances.Once anchored…
Stalin concluded his campaign in Kolathur after three days of canvassing votes across the city Chief minister M K Stalin concluded his 20-day-long campaign for the Assembly election with a promise—that his first signature after becoming chief minister for the second term would be to launch the scheme to give ₹8,000 coupon to women.“My first…
KRISHNAGIRI: At least three men died and one was seriously injured after a car collided head-on with a private Omni bus near the Sanamavu forest area, close to Hosur, in the early hours of Wednesday.They were travelling home to cast their votes in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, scheduled for Thursday.The deceased have been identified…
Chennai is on high alert with 23,000 state police and 31 CAPF companies deployed to ensure peaceful elections. CHENNAI: At least 23,000 state police personnel besides 31 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) have been deployed at polling stations to maintain law and order and prevent poll-related offences in the city.Commissioner Abin Dinesh Modak…
AI ‘speech-o-meter’ ranks TN 2026 leaders on campaign effectiveness Amid the campaign noise, TOI used a large language model (LLM) with a fixed prompt to analyse speeches by three key leaders from April 14–20 in the TN 2026 election, processing a 50,000+ word corpus.The model broke the text into “tokens” (words) and detected repeated phrases.A…
Chennai: A Y-shaped electric pole may blur into two leaves, a whistle may look like a road-roller, and a farmer may just end up ploughing into another party’s votebank. Voters are likely to face a baffling array of similar-looking party symbols on electronic voting machines, especially in constituencies such as Karur with more than 70…
Chennai: City police personnel on poll duty and hence eligible for postal ballots have been given one more day to cast their votes. A total of 18,971 police personnel were eligible to vote through postal ballots. On April 18, at least 10,000 personnel cast their votes. Officials had scheduled 9,703 personnel to vote on April…
Chennai: NTK chief coordinator Seeman concluded his campaign on Tuesday with an appeal to voters to shun the corrupt politicians as well as actors who wish to become chief ministers.Winding up his final poll speech at Karaikudi constituency, where he is contesting, Seeman said a vote was a powerful weapon which should be used to…
Chennai: Former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday flayed BJP, saying that there were multiple examples of dynastic politics in BJP and they have no reason to criticise DMK.Kejriwal was in Chennai to campaign for DMK. He campaigned with chief minister M K Stalin and participated in a roadshow.Speaking to reporters in Chennai, Kejriwal said…
Chennai: After an extensive campaign for his party and alliance partners, VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan concluded his election trail with a series of video messages seeking votes for party candidates. He released individual videos for each of the eight candidates fielded by the VCK as part of the DMK-led alliance. In these messages, he issued…
