Across the state, different parties are also facing the same problem as candidates with identical names slug it out in the high-stakes 23 April assembly election.
Chennai: The Dravidian leaders prefer to call them as ‘social investments’, or ‘personalised gifts’. But a familiar sight is back in poll: Dravida Munnetra...
Annamalai was replaced as BJP state president last year. However, Home Minister Amit Shah had indicated the party would continue to utilise his organizational skills.
Vijay entered politics after leaving his film career with the clear aim of serving the people as the chief minister, asserts TVK administrative committee's chief coordinator.
Nearly a decade after Jayalalithaa’s death, her aide Sasikala’s AIPTMMK enters the fray, with analysts predicting it could fragment AIADMK’s traditional support.
AIADMK plans to contest more than 170 of the 234 Assembly seats & views the BJP’s ask for more than 35 seats as excessive, as it does not want to let go of its Dravidian base.
This comes after several hours of uncertainty that saw Congress high command deploy P. Chidambaram to break the impasse ahead of the Tamil Nadu assembly polls.
DMK campaign song targets BJP, and says Stalin’s return as CM is necessary for Tamil Nadu to win. Stalin, meanwhile, credited Rs 5000 each to women beneficiaries of a govt scheme.
In his first public address since Karur incident, Vijay launched sharp attack on DMK govt, saying 'those who are in power should show responsibility, not arrogance'.
Congress steps up demand for greater power-sharing within INDIA bloc ahead of 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, but DMK remains silent, triggering fresh political chatter in the alliance dynamics.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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