At the same time VK Sasikala, confidante of late party matriarch J Jayalalithaa is staking claim to the late leader's legacy.
Additionally, the Lower House will have 442 candidates, who have assets running into the crores. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
"She is completely aware of what is happening. Asks and demands what she wants and I believe and everybody, even she, is looking forward when she will go home and take back the reigns," said Apollo Hospitals Chairman Pratap C Reddy.
The decision toremit the sentence of life imprisonment of all the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case rocked Lok Sabha.
A Ganesh Nadar meets M Radha, the first transgender candidate in the fray for Lok Sabha elections from Tamil Nadu.
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.
The Congress secured the maximum of 48 seats.
SC keeps in abeyance a Delhi high court order on allotment of symbol.
Usually, the chair in the Upper House reads out obituary references before members rise as a mark of respect to the memory of the departed.
An inquiry commission, set up by the Tamil Nadu government to probe former chief minister J Jayalalithaa's death, will look into the circumstances leading to her hospitalisation last year and subsequent treatment, the government has said.
The man who threw the petrol bomb was immediately overpowered, they said
The Saffron party alleged that the accused was a DMK office-bearer, which was denied by the ruling party.
The Supreme Court today stayed a ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-sponsored bandh in Tamil Nadu on the Setusamudram project issue slated for tomorrow. A bench headed by Justice B N Aggarwal stayed the bandh called tomorrow or on any other day
As a transgender woman, Reddy has been involved in social activism and also has taken up cases of child rape.
The speaker had suspended 45 members last week for unruly behaviour.
For the first time since 1985, Tamil Nadu has voted in favour of an incumbent party which has been a shock to those in Anna Arivalayam -- the office of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Chennai.
Dinakaran said the value of his movable and immovable assets stood at Rs 74,17,807 -- immovable assets worth Rs 57.44 lakh and movable assets worth were Rs 16.73 lakh.
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