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CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday announced the third list of the party's election promises, accusing the DMK government of presiding over a sharp rise in the prices of essential commodities and increasing multiple taxes over the past five years, which, he said, has worsened household finances. Unveiling the proposals, Palaniswami said an AIADMK government would provide a one-time assistance of Rs 10,000 to every family as a compassion grant to ease the burden ...Read More >
Theni (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 24 (ANI): Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and expelled AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam on Tuesday announced that he is prepared to quit politics if the allegations against him are proven. Responding to a reporter's question on his stand on enduring betrayals, Panneerselvam said he has continued to function with resilience despite facing several political setbacks. Speaking to reporters in Theni, OPS said, "I have never committed even the slightest betrayal o ...Read More >
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday (December 17, 2025) came down heavily on the Opposition AIADMK's "silence" over the Centre altering and renaming the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) as the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission-Gramin (VBGRAMG). In a social media post, Mr. Stalin questioned: "What is the AIADMK's stand on VBGRAMG, which directly affects the rural poor?" He accused AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palanis ...Read More >
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Wednesday claimed the "100 days work scheme" was facing a threat of being halted and dared the opposition AIADMK to explain its stand on the proposed new rural employment bill. Stalin sought to know the official stance of AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on the Centre's move to repeal the employment guarantee scheme, MGNREGA, named after Mahatma Gandhi.The DMK has been opposing the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mi ...Read More >
Former AIADMK strongman K.A. Sengottaiyan, now in TVK, has strongly backed actor Vijay for CM in 2026, claiming no power can stop him. He predicted a clean sweep for TVK, winning all 234 seats in the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly polls. Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) Chief Coordinator and veteran politician K.A. Sengottaiyan on Monday made a strong pitch for actor-turned-politician Vijay's chief ministerial bid, asserting that no force could stop Vijay from assuming power in the 2026 Tamil Nadu ...Read More >
RAMESWARAM: She turned down his romantic proposals multiple times. But 21-year-old Muniyaraj wouldn't take no for an answer. When her father warned him against harassing his daughter, Muniyaraj chose revenge. He stabbed her to death when she was on her way to school, on a public road in broad daylight. According to police, the incident happened on Wednesday in Rameswaram. The girl lived with her family in Cherankottai near the island town. The accused Muniyaraj, a resident of the same area, had ...Read More >
Rameswaram (Tamil Nadu), Nov 18 (PTI) A 21-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing a Class 12 girl to death in broad daylight while she was on her way to school here on Wednesday, police said. The girl had reportedly rejected the man's love proposal, they said. The victim lived with her family in Cherankottai near the island town. Police said the accused, identified as Muniyaraj, a resident of the same area, had been allegedly stalking the schoolgirl for days and pressuring her to acc ...Read More >
Chennai: Leader of opposition Edappadi K Palaniswami on Saturday said the DMK govt turned Tamil Nadu into a land of missed chances. His remark came in the wake of South Korea's Hwaseung firm, which initially planned to invest in TN, opting for Andhra Pradesh instead. Referring to media reports about the Korean footwear firm shifting its base to Andhra Pradesh, in chief minister Chandrababu Naidu's Kuppam constituency, Palaniswami in an X post alleged that the company's decision "reflected a tren ...Read More >
Chennai: The expulsion of K A Sengottaiyan from AIADMK on Friday was something both he and AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) had seen coming, as a culmination of months of simmering tension. For close to nine months, Sengottaiyan had been treading a path of defiance - first by boycotting an event to felicitate EPS in February and later questioning his reluctance to re-induct expelled leaders O Panneerselvam and V K Sasikala. Party insiders say both Sengottaiyan and EPS were p ...Read More >
Chief Minister Stalin also took to 'X' after paying respects to the statue of the Muthuramalinga Thevar at the Pasumpon Memorial.Source : X/@mkstalin Ramanathapuram (Tamil Nadu), Oct 30 (PTI) Vice President C P Radhakrishnan and Chief Minister M K Stalin paid homage to freedom fighter Muthuramalinga Thevar at his memorial in Pasumpon in this district on his 63rd guru pooja and 118th jayanthi on Thursday. Taking to X, the Vice President hailed the celebrated freedom fighter as a "great warrior" ...Read More >
Ramanathapuram (Tamil Nadu), Oct 30 (PTI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday said he is "waiting to back AIADMK's recommendation" to confer Bharat Ratna on freedom fighter Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar. CM Stalin was responding to a question at a press conference held after he paid tributes to Thevar's memorial in Pasumpon on the 63rd guru pooja and 118th jayanthi, being observed on Thursday. Leader of Opposition in the state assembly and AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Pala ...Read More >
Chennai: A day after the ruling DMK vowed to oppose Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Tamil Nadu, the principal opposition, AIADMK and the state unit of its ally BJP said they welcomed the exercise.AIADMK organizational secretary D Jayakumar said on Monday the SIR was intended to 'cleanse' the state's electoral rolls. In a statement, he said AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami has been urging for a complete scrutiny of the electoral rolls and release of a fresh one after removing d ...Read More >
The Madras High Court on Monday directed the Tamil Nadu government to frame a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) within 10 days for the conduct of political meetings and rallies in the state. The bench, comprising Chief Justice M M Shrivastava and Justice G Arul Murugan, gave the directive while hearing a batch of petitions in the wake of a stampede in Karur district in which 41 people were killed and over 50 others were injured during a political rally held by TVK Chief and actor Vijay in Karu ...Read More >
Chennai, Oct 27 (UNI) A month after the killer stampede at Karur, which claimed 41 lives during the rally of actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) President Vijay, the film star today met each and every family of the deceased separately at a hotel near the heritage town Mamallapuram near Chennai on the East Coast Road. Recovering from the aftermath of the tragedy, Vijay had initially planned to visit the families in and around Karur. But, decided to bring them near Chennai due to logistic is ...Read More >
Chennai, Oct 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Madras High Court will on Monday take up a crucial batch of cases linked to actor-politician C. Joseph Vijay's TVK, the Karur rally stampede that claimed 41 lives on September 27, and the need for a uniform Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to govern all future political events in Tamil Nadu. The first Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan is scheduled to hear the matters, beginning with the second anticipato ...Read More >
Guwahati: Senior IAS officer Talo Potom surrendered to the police at 7:30 am on October 27, concluding a two-day manhunt after authorities issued a Look Out Notice. Potom, who currently serves as Special Under Secretary (PWD) in New Delhi, is now in police custody. Superintendent of Police, Naharlagun, confirmed the surrender, providing temporary relief in a case that has caused widespread public outrage across Arunachal Pradesh. Potom had been on the run since October 25, following the issua ...Read More >
AIADMK general secretary and Leader of the Opposition Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) assured farmers from the delta region that he would take up issues related to paddy procurement with the State government. Interacting with farmers at a direct purchase centre in Kattur near Thanjavur, Mr. Palaniswami said he was aware of the problems faced by delta farmers as he himself was a farmer. Assuring them he would take up the matter with the government, Mr. Palaniswami claime ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 22 (PTI) A section of ASHA workers in Kerala who have been protesting for the past 256 days demanding a hike in their honorarium and post-retirement benefits, on Wednesday intensified their agitation by marching to Cliff House -- the official residence of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Till date, the protesting Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers had been carrying out a sit-in agitation on the footpath outside the state secretariat here. The protestors, l ...Read More >
Actor-politician Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam party has credited Rs 20 lakh each to 39 families who lost loved ones in the Karur stampede. The total disbursed amount is Rs 7.8 crore. The party also announced Rs 2 lakh for the injured. Vijay's party will adopt victim families for long-term support in education and employment. Actor-politician Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam party on Saturday said Rs 20 lakh each has been credited to the families of those who lost their lives in the Karur st ...Read More >
AIADMK general secretary and Leader of the Opposition Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Wednesday accused the Tamil Nadu government of failing to take preventive measures to avert the tragic incident in Karur on September 27 during a rally addressed by Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president Vijay, in which 41 people died in a crowd crush. Speaking on a special calling attention motion in the Assembly, Mr. Palaniswami said, "The TVK leader had addressed campaign meetings in four districts prior to Ka ...Read More >
Chennai, March 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin's decision to remove the rupee symbol (₹) from the logo of the state's 2025-26 Budget, which will be presented in the Assembly on Friday, has sparked widespread criticism. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is among the latest to condemn the move. Taking to social media platform X, she criticised the DMK government, calling it "a completely avoidable example of language and regional chauvinism". She also said that the decis ...Read More >
CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami said the loss of lives during TVK president Vijay's rally in Karur could have been avoided had the government taken precautionary measures, considering the crowds that gathered in four other districts earlier. But the government failed, he said, adding that the government's negligence led to the loss of 41 lives. Addressing the Assembly on Wednesday, Palaniswami added now the people are doubting whether there is any "ulterior motive" behi ...Read More >
Chennai: AIADMK MLAs led by general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami walked out of the assembly on Wednesday after the debate over Karur stampede veered towards Tuticorin police firing. When EPS alleged that state govt's lapses were responsible for Karur stampede, state transport minister S S Sivasankar intervened asking whether, by the same logic, EPS should be held responsible for the Thoothukudi police firing, since he was the CM at that time. EPS and AIADMK MLAs raised slogans and staged a s ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday raised eyebrows on the two seemingly conflicting orders passed by the Madras High Court over the Karur stampede in Tamil Nadu, one declining a plea for a CBI probe (passed by Madurai bench) and another directing a probe by a Special Investigation Team (passed by principal bench) of the high court. Verbally observing that "there has to be some propriety in the system", a division bench comprising Justices JK Maheshwari and NV Anjaria reserved its orders on ...Read More >
Tamil Nadu Minister Duraimurugan criticized TVK chief Vijay for not personally visiting families affected by the Karur stampede, suggesting he is "afraid to come out." This follows TVK members connecting Vijay to victims via video call. Tamil Nadu Minister Duraimurugan questioned Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay for not visiting the houses of families affected in the Karur stampede, saying that the actor-turned politician is "afraid to come out". Duraimurugan's statement follows the ...Read More >
Chennai, Oct 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief and actor Vijay has formally sought police clearance to travel to Karur to meet the families of those who lost their lives in the tragic stampede during his first major political roadshow on September 27. On that day, a massive crowd estimated at nearly 30,000 had gathered at Veluchamipuram in Karur to witness Vijay's rally. The venue, designed for a fraction of that number, turned chaotic after long delays and an unexpected ...Read More >
KARUR: Nearly ten days after the deadly stampede in Karur that claimed 41 lives, TVK chief Vijay has finally reached out to the families of the victims through video calls. It also marks the first time in ten days that a second-rung leader from the party has personally visited the affected families.TVK party sources said a team from Chennai, headed by the party's general secretary of propaganda and policy, K G Arun Raj, began reaching out to the families on Monday afternoon. The outreach was kep ...Read More >
TRICHY/CHENNAI: Even as the state govt formed special teams to nab senior TVK functionaries, the govt faced flak from its own allies for 'sparing' TVK president Vijay from legal action in the Karur stampede case.VCK chief Thol Thirumavalavan on Thursday questioned the state govt for not booking Vijay, while only second rung leaders of TVK have been named in the FIR related to the stampede that claimed 41 lives. Stating that the police action to leave out Vijay's name was shocking, Thirumavalavan ...Read More >
AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami declared that DMK's dream of winning 200 seats in the next Assembly election will be shattered, predicting 210 seats for the AIADMK combine. He criticized the DMK government for failing to fulfill 2021 poll promises and alleged corruption. Palaniswami also vowed to complete the Harur Kumaran Dam if his party returns to power. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin's dream of his DMK winning 200 seats in next year's Assembly election will be shattered, said AIAD ...Read More >
Chennai, Oct 3 (PTI) AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday claimed that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin was "attempting to seek political gains" over the Karur stampede incident and sought to know if he visited Kallakurichi, where a hooch tragedy occurred, or Vengaivayal village, where drinking water was contaminated with human faeces. Seeking to turn the tables against Stalin, who earlier in the day accused the BJP of attempting to seek electoral gain over the stampede ...Read More >
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