AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami and DMDK general secretary Premalatha Vijayakant on Saturday announced that the parties would boycott the Erode East bypoll, scheduled for Feb 5. NTK chief coordinator Seeman said the party would contest. The candidate would be made known on Jan 14, he said.Palaniswami’s…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin continued attacks Sunday on AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, saying the state’s leader of opposition “might merge his party with BJP” if there was another income tax search targeting his colleagues.Udhayanidhi recalled that three months ago, EPS had categorically ruled out an alliance with BJP for the…
CHENNAI: Twelve years after a trial court had allowed the closure of a corruption case against former Tamil Nadu chief minister and expelled AIADMK functionary O Panneerselvam, Madras high court reversed the order on Tuesday, thereby reviving the case.Justice N Anand Venkatesh, who had initiated suo motu revision proceedings against the closure, passed an order…
NEW DELHI: Observing that rigorous bail provisions in statutes like PMLA, anti-terror law UAPA and NDPS Act cannot become a ‘tool’ to keep an undertrial accused in jail for unreasonably long time, Supreme Court on Thursday held that the requirement of expeditious disposal of cases must be read into these statutes as inordinate delay in…
NEW DELHI: A day after the AIADMK insinuated that the ruling DMK is covertly working with BJP under a “secret pact”, the DMK supremo MK Stalin on Monday cleared the air. The Tamil Nadu chief minister outright rejected the rumors of any secret tie up with the saffron party, saying he would never compromise on…
NEW DELHI: Axis my India exit polls predicts the DMK- INDIA alliance in Tamil Nadu to get 33-37 seats, and the BJP-NDA is expected to open its account with around 2-4 seats. Thirty-nine Lok Sabha seats from Tamil Nadu went to polls on April 19 in the first phase of the general election. The EC…
