Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin with defence minister Rajnath Singh CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Monday rubbished claims of opposition parties that DMK would tie up with BJP. Stalin, however, was all praise for Union defence minister Rajnath Singh, who released a commemorative coin to mark late DMK leader M Karunanidhi’s…
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…
Rajakannappan and Udhayanidhi Stalin.” CHENNAI: Was it a Freudian slip or a deliberate slip up? While addressing a gathering at an event to launch the ‘Tamil Puthalvan‘ scheme in Ramanathapuram on Friday, Tamil Nadu backward classes minister R S Rajakannappan referred to Udhayanidhi Stalin as “deputy chief minister”. He corrected himself and said Udhayanidhi was…
NEW DELHI: The third day of the Budget session is set for a massive showdown as the opposition INDIA bloc MPs have decided to protest in Parliament in the backdrop of the Union Budget, which they have called “discriminatory”.Union Budget presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharam for the seventh consecutive time on Tuesday drew opposition’s…
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…
Congress opted for a cautious approach on Sunday, refraining from making any remarks on AAP national convenor and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s 10 guarantees of INDIA bloc, which received endorsements from allies like Shiv Sena, DMK, TMC, and JMM.Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav said AAP’s guarantees are akin to the latter’s manifesto, much like Congress’s…
NEW DELHI: C Velayutham, a former BJP MLA in the Tamil Nadu state assembly and dedicated social worker, died on Wednesday. Velayutham made history by becoming the first BJP member to be elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Padmanabhapuram Assembly constituency in the 1996 elections.He emerged victorious against DMK‘s Bala Janathipathy.However, he…
CHENNAI: DMK has moved the Madras HC challenging the validity of ECI rules mandating it to approach only the SC for appeals against the commission’s order regarding pre-certification of poll advertisements.Admitting the plea, the bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Vijaykumar Gangapurwala and Justice Sathya Narayana Prasad directed the poll body to respond by April 17.The…
COIMBATORE/VELLORE/NAGPUR: DMK is “synonymous with corruption and scams”, PM Narendra Modi said on Wednesday while targeting Tamil Nadu’s governing party during two Lok Sabha election rallies for NDA candidates in Vellore and Nilgiris constituencies. Later in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region, Modi questioned Congress‘s commitment to implementing “Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Constitution” nationwide, referencing Article 370 in J&K that…
season isn’t just about rival politicians getting to call each other names. In Tamil Nadu, there is a longstanding tradition that if mom and dad can’t agree on a proper name for their newborn, the baton usually passes to a politician.DMK minister Udhayanidhi Stalin sidestepped one such request during a rally in Dharmapuri recently, but…
