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Chennai, Apr 5 (UNI) The All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Sunday named P Viswanthan as its candidate for the Melur seat in Madurai for the April 23 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal announced the candidate for the Melur seat on the eve of the last date for filing of nominations. With this, the National party has announced candidates for all the 28 seats allotted to it as per the seat sharing pact by the ruling DMK, heading the multi-party Secular Progres ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Former Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai was not included in the party's list of 27 candidates released on Friday for the upcoming assembly elections.When asked about the move, state president Nainar Nagendra said the "decision was taken by the party high command."The development comes days after differences between Annamalai and the party surfaced, following his absence at Coimbatore airport during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit.However, just hours after the names of the candida ...Read More >
Chennai, , Apr 3 (UNI) After a much delay the AICC on Friday announced the list of Congress candidates for 27 of the 28 seats for the April 23 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, retaining 12 ositting MLAs and accommodating new faces, including new entrant GKM Tamilkumaran, who had quit the PMK just a week back and joined the National party. Despite initial objections from within the party, Tamilkumaran, who is the son of veteran PMK leader G K Mani, who had a served as the long time President of th ...Read More >
Chennai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday unveiled its list of candidates for the upcoming Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly elections, naming nominees for 27 constituencies as part of the AIADMK-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). The announcement, made by the party's national leadership, signals a calibrated strategy by the BJP to strengthen its presence in the state by fielding prominent leaders in electorally significant constituencies. Among the names, former Telangana Governo ...Read More >
Tamil Nadu election 2026 opinion poll Survey: A new survey by Poll Tracker indicates that the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led alliance is on course to retain power in Tamil Nadu with a commanding majority in the upcoming Assembly elections. The projections suggest the DMK front could secure between 172 and 178 seats in the 234-member Assembly, putting it comfortably ahead of its rivals. In contrast, the Opposition led by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is expected to trail with an est ...Read More >
Tamil Nadu Elections 2026: Who dominates which district? Check the full district-wise stronghold breakdown of DMK, AIADMK, BJP and other key players. With just weeks to go before the 2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election on April 23, the electoral map of Tamil Nadu is taking shape -- and political parties are zeroing in on traditional bastions, volatile swing districts and emerging battlegrounds that could decide the future of regional politics. The 2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly ...Read More >
Chennai, Apr 2 (UNI) After a two-day government holiday, filing of nominations for the April 23 high stakes Assembly elections resumed on Thursday, with a host of candidates including Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) Founder-President and actor-politician and Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin filing their papers from their respective constituencies. While Vijay, who has entered the foray from two seats in his maiden electoral plunge, filed his nomination papers from Tiruchi East ...Read More >
2026 Tamil Nadu elections: DMK-led SPA vs AIADMK-led NDA, the seat allocation in the two main alliances in the fray, their manifestos and other key players explained As Tamil Nadu gears up for the 2026 Assembly elections on April 23, the major political alliances have taken the poll position. Both the ruling DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) and the AIADMK-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) have finalised their seat-sharing formulae for the polls, results for which will be announce ...Read More >
Chennai, Mar 31 (UNI) The ruling DMK and the prinicpal Opposition AIADMK are bracing up for intense battle as the two major Dravidian parties are locked in a direct contest in 121 of the total 234 seats in the April 23 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu With the filing of nominatons commencing for the high stake four-cornered contest, the on field battle between the two ar rivals, which had been ruling the state alternatively for the last six decades, gained momentum as both the parties gear up f ...Read More >
Assembly Elections 2026: Why Tamil Nadu Polls Is Crucial For National Politics Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2026: A BJP breakthrough in Tamil Nadu could weaken the INDIA bloc, of which the ruling DMK is a part, ahead of the 2029 general election. Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2026: Tamil Nadu's 2026 Assembly election, scheduled for April 23, is seen as crucial for national politics. With 39 Lok Sabha seats and a large voter base, the state is a key battleground testing the BJP's push into the ...Read More >
Chennai, Nov 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Tamil Nadu trophy tour and the official mascot of the FIH Hockey Men's Junior World Cup 2025 were launched at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Hockey Stadium in Chennai on Monday. The tournament is set to be hosted in Chennai and Madurai from November 28 to December 10, 2025. The trophy tour was jointly flagged off by Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Thiru Udhayanidhi Stalin and FIH President Tayyab Ikram. The Trophy Tour will travel through 38 districts of Tamil ...Read More >
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], November 10 (ANI): The Tamil Nadu Trophy Tour and the official mascot of the FIH Hockey Men's Junior World Cup Tamil Nadu 2025 were launched at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Hockey Stadium in Chennai on Monday. The tournament is set to be hosted in Chennai and Madurai from November 28 to December 10 2025. The Trophy Tour was jointly flagged off by Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Udhayanidhi Stalin, and FIH President, Dato' Tayyab Ikram. The Trophy Tour will travel t ...Read More >
Coimbatore will soon get more train services, said Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan in the city on Tuesday. Speaking at a felicitation event organised by the Coimbatore Citizens Forum, Mr. Radhakrishnan said that when Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw met him, he had placed two demands - a Vande Bharat train from Ernakulam to Bengaluru with stops at Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Erode and Salem and a daily train between Coimbatore and Ranchi to cater to the rail needs of workers from Jharkh ...Read More >
Chennai, Aug 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 220th death anniversary of freedom fighter Dheeran Chinnamalai was observed across Tamil Nadu on Sunday, with leaders from various political parties paying rich tributes to the valiant hero of the Kongu region. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin led the state in honouring the revolutionary. At a ceremony held in Guindy, Chennai, Stalin garlanded a statue of Chinnamalai and paid floral tributes in the presence of Ministers Ma Subramanian, P.K. Sekar Babu, ...Read More >
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 3 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin paid tribute to freedom fighter Dheeran Chinnamalai on his 220th death anniversary at Guindy in Chennai on Sunday. The Chief Minister offered flowers to the portrait of the freedom fighter in Chennai. Dheeran Chinnamalai was born as Theerthagiri Sarkarai Manradiar on April 17, 1756. He was a Palayakkarar and chieftain who ruled the Kongu Nadu region. Chinnamalai fought against the Kingdom of Mysore, which collect ...Read More >
NAMAKKAL: Traffic was affected on the Tiruchengode-Kozhikkal Natham Road for three hours on Sunday night due to a protest by a group of villagers in Sengodampalayam area in Namakkal district who opposed the move to exclude them from a scheduled consecration ceremony at a temple. The protesters alleged that gounder caste members had barred them from taking part in the consecration of the Mariamman temple scheduled for the July 13. The protest ended after police gave them a written assurance that ...Read More >
MADURAI (TAMIL NADU): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday asserted that the NDA would form governments in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Addressing party office bearers, he hailed Madurai as a city of 'Parivartan' and said his party's Karyakarta Sammelan (workers meet) would lead to change as well, of dislodging the DMK from power. The DMK's corrupt rule has affected the poor, women and children in Tamil Nadu, Shah alleged, and urged his party members to resolve to dislodge the Stalin-led Dra ...Read More >
Madurai: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday asserted that the NDA would form governments in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Addressing party office bearers, he hailed Madurai as a city of 'Parivartan' and said his party's Karyakarta Sammelan (workers meet) would lead to change as well, of dislodging the DMK from power. The DMK's corrupt rule has affected the poor, women and children in Tamil Nadu, Shah alleged, and urged his party members to resolve to dislodge the Stalin-led Dravidian party ...Read More >
RAIPUR: The Vishnu Deo Sai cabinet embarked on a singular initiative -- Chintan Shivir 2.0 -- where all state ministers shared their experiences, lessons learnt, accounts from the field, as they got an opportunity for introspection on an attentive, thoughtful platform. Cited as no ordinary government meeting, the two-day extensive deliberations and exchange of better ideas held at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur campus is exclusively designed for the ministers to reflect on thei ...Read More >
Madurai: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that the NDA would form governments in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Addressing party office bearers, Shah said that the BJP-AIADMK alliance will secure power in the 2026 Assembly election and people will defeat DMK in 2026 polls and the party is 100 per cent failure government. "In 2026, in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, NDA will form governments," he said. The central minister also hailed Madurai as a city of 'Parivartan' and said his party's ...Read More >
The Goa branch of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) condemned the minister's action and urged the authorities to immediately rescind the suspension and reinstate the doctor while ensuring a fair trial. The opposition parties, including the Congress, Aam Aadmi Party and Revolutionary Goans Party, had condemned Rane's behaviour. Government sources told PTI that the chief minister invited Rane for a meeting on the issue in Panaji on Sunday, and after the meeting, a statement was issued that th ...Read More >
Madurai: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday, June 8, asserted that the NDA would form governments in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Addressing party office bearers, he hailed Madurai as a city of 'Parivartan' and said his party's Karyakarta Sammelan (workers meet) would lead to change as well, of dislodging DMK from power. In the 2026 Assembly election, the BJP-AIADMK will form the NDA government in Tamil Nadu, and the people will defeat DMK in the 2026 polls and the DMK is a 100 percent fai ...Read More >
Chennai: The overwhelming victory in the Erode East Assembly by-election and a series of storms in the AIADMK teacup have led to the DMK speculating on the AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami losing his grip over the party, whose cadre, as Law Minister S Regupathy claimed, had already started gravitating towards the DMK. While Regupathy told the media at Anna Arivalayam, the DMK headquarters, on Monday that the four years of good governance provided by the DMK had led to the people ...Read More >
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