NEW DELHI: Phase one of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls ended on Friday, with 62.37 per cent being the total voter turnout. The voters turned up to exercise their franchise in sweltering heat in 21 states and Union territories, including the big ones like Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar and Tamil Nadu.The election, which kicked…
NEW DELHI: All 39 seats of Tamil Nadu will be going to the polls on April 19 in the first phase of the mammoth seven-phase 2024 Lok Sabha elections that will conclude with the results being declared on June 4. The BJP is hoping to make major headway in a state that has never given…
Tamil Nadu will aggressively pitch itself as a manufacturing site for Tesla Inc. as speculation builds about the US company’s planned investments ahead of billionaire Elon Musk’s visit.“Tamil Nadu will be pitching for all opportunities of electric vehicle manufacturing from all global car majors,” T. R. B Rajaa, the state’s minister for industries said, when…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Modi’s relentless attack against the DMK government over alleged corruption charges has evoked a unique poster campaign in Tamil Nadu. Posters titled ‘Ji Pay,’ bearing the face of the Prime Minister, have appeared in several districts of the state.The posters have a barcode that encouraged people to ‘scan the code and…
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…
CHENNAI/PUDUCHERRY: Scores of centenarians in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, most of them having voted in all parliamentary and assembly elections since Independence, began casting postal votes from their homes in the presence of poll officials from Wednesday.100-year-old Anjalai Rayappan from Uppalam constituency in Puducherry town, who raised her 10 children by working as a house…
TIRUVANNAMALAI: Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin accused BJP-led NDA govt at the Centre of “using the RTI Act to spread lies among people”, in an apparent reference to BJP’s latest salvo blaming Congress and DMK for conceding Katchatheevu to Sri Lanka.Addressing a public meeting on Wednesday, Stalin said the govt was, till now, using ED,…
NEW DELHI: Raising the issue of Katchatheevu for the second straight day, PM Modi Monday targeted DMK over revelations that the party had consented to renunciation of the island in 1974.Taking to X, Modi mentioned official documents cited by TOI to say that notwithstanding DMK’s public protestations, party stalwart and then CM of Tamil Nadu…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday once again reacted to the Katchatheevu island issue and slammed DMK saying the new details emerging on the matter have “unmasked” the party’s double standards. Taking to X, PM Modi cited a TOI report, which claimed that then chief minister M Karunanidhi had given his concurrence to…
Representative image Chennai: Listed garment maker S.P. Apparels Ltd on Monday said it will acquire 51.33 per cent stake in the Rs 325.91 crore revenue Young Brand Apparels Private Ltd for Rs 95 crore. In a regulatory filing, S.P.Apparels said it has entered into an MoU to acquire Young Brand Apparels, a subsidiary of Bannari…
