The opposition AIADMK's discomfiture is likely to work in favour of the ruling DMK-backed Congress candidate.
Congress on Monday warned its leaders in Tamil Nadu that action would be taken against them if they make statements in public against the alliance with the state's ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
Stalin still enjoys a lot of sympathy and empathy as someone wishing well for the state, but not full-throated support as in 2019 and 2021, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Minister of State for Textiles, E V K S Elangovan said the government expects an increase in employment of 45.19 million persons in the textile industry by the terminal year of the Eleventh Plan. Consequently, the total employment in the textile sector including allied industries is projected to increase to 105.39 million persons in 2011-12 from the present level of 88.02 million persons, resulting in a net addition of 17.37 million persons.
The Centre will set up 25 integrated textile parks in the country, creating five lakh jobs by the end of next year, Union Minister of State for Textiles E V K S Elangovan said on Friday.
Show cause notices have been issued to the publishers of The Hindu, 'Star Dust', 'Overdrive' and cigarette manufacturers -- ITC, Gold Flake and Phillip Morris - for violation of the Tobacco Products Act, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
The government will announce a new foreign trade policy next month aimed at boosting exports especially from agriculture sector.
The government on Wednesday said that the South Asia Free Trade Area Agreement that envisages phased tariff liberalisation will come into force from January 1, 2006.
'We trust Congress President Sonia Gandhi's assurance that her party will not give up the coalition dharma,' the DMK said.
India on Wednesday ruled out withdrawing the Most Favoured Nation status given to Pakistan despite Islamabad's refusal to grant the same to New Delhi.
Buoyed by the momentum created in the last fiscal, India's export target for 2005-06 has been revised upwards to $92 billion from $88 billion, Union Minister of State for Commerce E V K S Elangovan said on Monday.
More than two lakh workers have been affected with the closure of 379 sick textile mills during the past decade, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
Aiming to take India-Turkey trade to the $2 billion mark by 2009, the two countries on Tuesday set up a joint CEOs' forum which would accelerate mutual investment and address issues hindering the bilateral trade.
The export growth target had been pegged at 16 per cent for 2004-05, the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday.
Starting a business in India takes 152 days compared to just 5 days in the United States, 41 in China and 24 in Pakistan, according to World Bank.
India received Rs 14232.42 crore (Rs 142.32 billion) worth of foreign direct investment in the first nine months of the current fiscal as opposed to Rs 12117.36 crore (Rs 121.17 billion) FDI received in the whole of 2003-04 fiscal.
DMK had in early 2013 snapped ties with Congress over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue.
The government has not expressed its willingness to enter into a Free Trade Agreement in services with United States, Lok Sabha was informed on Friday.
Sources within the party claimed the main charge against Elangovan was the unsatisfactory performance of the party in the recent assembly polls.
Though another 75 candidates are in the fray, the Elangovan-Thennaruasu fight has become a prestige battle for the DMK and AIADMK, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Vellore is one of the two seats that the DMK alliance won by the narrowest of margins in 2019. For the DMK's vote-score to be so low in a constituency with a substantial Muslim population has not missed the BJP strategists' eyes, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
For now, the DMK can be expected to sound the bugle for Opposition unity at the national level, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
Neither the ruling DMK nor the fractured AIADMK Opposition anticipated that an assembly by-election would put them both to test, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Chief M Karunanidhi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to rein in Hindutva outfits who are making a "mockery of communal harmony" and joined other parties in voicing apprehension that observing Good Governance Day on December 25 could hamper Christmas festivities.
The case of the two Shiv Sena factions for legitimacy and the party symbol, 'Bow and Arrow', is now before the Election Commission. Whichever way the EC findings go, the other can be expected to move the Supreme Court. They would need a final verdict before the parliamentary polls, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
From being the third largest party in the outgoing Lok Sabha with 37 seats, the AIADMK has to now contend with single digit tally, pushed to the third spot behind arch rival DMK and Congress despite fighting the polls as part of a "mega alliance" with parties, including the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The Indian authorities have to reconfirm that Prabhakaran is dead. It may require seeking assistance from Interpol and also involve the re-opening of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, and more so, the investigations, formally or otherwise, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu on Monday welcomed Karnataka government's decision to appeal against Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's acquittal in a wealth case, with DMK terming it as the "right" step by the ruling Congress party.
Schools and colleges are set to reopen on Monday in three adjoining districts of Chennai, Kancheepuram and Thiruvallur after remaining closed for nearly ten days in view of the monsoon fury.
The state government's move comes following stiff opposition.
Tamil superstar Rajinikanth may have been wooed by the Bharatiya Janata Party and G K Vasan, who broke away from the Congress, but newly appointed Congress chief in Tamil Nadu E V K S Elangovan feels he should not enter politics.
Supporters of the bull taming sport Jalikattu on Tuesday staged protests in Tamil Nadu after SC stayed the Centre's notification lifting the ban on it.
'The people of Tamil Nadu are fed up of these people, whether it is Panneerselvam or Palaniswami.'
'Let me stick my neck out and say that Tamil Nadu will keep alive its reputation for landslide election verdicts, with the DMK front winning at least 30 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats going to the polls in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
At 70, going by hospital records made public, most age and health-related arguments put out against super-star Rajinikanth's entry into politics, before he withdrew citing a 2016 kidney-transplant, hold good for Sasikala, too, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The dispossessed of Delhi cropped up repeatedly in the rhetoric
'We cannot capture the mind space of today's youth by evoking past sacrifices. Politics is about hope; hope for the future. The Congress hankers about the past too much.'
Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK may choose to capitalise on the confusion within opposition ranks and hope to ride to power on Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's popularity, writes N Sathiya Moorthy.
'The AIADMK has no Number Two, frankly it does not even have a Number Hundred and Two. There is the Numero Uno, and there is everybody else -- a point that was made very clear when Jayalalithaa made her ministers take the oath of office in unison on May 23. What, after all, was the point of having them do so individually when they lack individuality?'
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