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.
Fed up with the treatment at the Nagpur central jail, his advocate has decided he will no longer deliver anything for Professor Saibaba, leaving it to the jail authorities to fulfill their legal responsibility to look after the professor.
Tamil Nadu registered an eight-wicket win in their last Super League match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 tournament
The Indians in Beijing celebrated the Independence Day on Friday with Ambassador Nirupama Rao hoisting the tri-colour at a function at the embassy. Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi and other key Indian Olympic Association members also attended the ceremony.
Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore have won only three games out of 10 in IPL-12 so far.
Murugan was the first to vote in Panickanadarkudieruppu. "I wanted to vote before the heat gets unbearable."
This year's IPL was action-packed and Redifff.com reloads some of the memorable moments, in pictures, from this year's competition.
The home team's bowlers will be wary of Chris Gayle's power-hitting.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be eager to break the sequence of reverses and get Rising Pune Supergiants' campaign back on track when they lock horns with in-form Kolkata Knight Riders.
Images from Monday's IPL match between Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals, in Mumbai.
It is a treat to watch them bowl in tandem. Ironically, they also share the same last name. Rising Pune Supergiants spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Murugan Ashwin. While off-spinner R Ashwin has emerged to be India's lead spinner in the last couple of years, his partner M Ashwin is the talk of season 9 of Indian Premier League with the amount of turn he generates with his leg-spinners as well as googly. Catch the Chennai-based spinners in conversation with IPLT20.com
While Kings XI's biggest star Chris Gayle scored a 47-ball 79 in the Jaipur match, his Jamaican compatriot Andre Russell also looked in blistering touch for KKR in the match against Sunriserrs Hyderabad. Their rivalry will be one of the sub plots of Wednesday's clash in Kolkata.
With a debate raging over the run out, it remains to be seen how Ashwin and Co. start afresh in what will be their first away match of the season.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
It does not stop here, though. According to field information, state ministers, AIADMK candidates and campaigners are asking BJP cadres accompanying them not to carry party flags at common rallies and also avoid their saffron shawl on those occasions. BJP cadres are also asked to stay out of the common campaign when it enters a minority-dominated areas, especially of Muslims, and re-join later, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The latest updates from the Malayalam film industry.
The delicious handmade panchamirtham, the prasadam made out of five fruits and pure sugar and sugar candy, at the famous Lord Muruga temple in the Palani hills in Tamil Nadu might give way to the mechanised fruit mix as the temple administration plans to set up a high-tech automated plant to make it.
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'It's a natural alliance and this alliance has been has been formed without compromising the core ideology of the AIADMK.'
"It's completely personal, I don't want to say anything about it," she told CNN-IBN. But "I did visit Vellore to meet my father's assassins."
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Ten members of the Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam, including a ward secretary, were arrested by the police on Monday in connection with Sunday's attack on the offices of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindu Munnani office.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he was sad that 7 people convicted of killing his father, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, were being released by the Tamil Nadu government.
Necessary amendments have been made in party rules to facilitate the 63-year-old Stalin's elevation to the post at the DMK general council meeting where Karunanidhi was not present.
Starring Khushboo, Bharath, Kajal Aggarwal, Aishwarya and a motley crowd of villains and cops, Pazhani is a combination of filial love (read as sister sentiments in the new filmi language) reinforced by fisticuffs.
Chennai Super Kings will aim to maintain their pole position with a victory over a struggling Kings XI Punjab
The two teams are languishing at the bottom half of the table and need a win to keep alive their remote Play-off chances.
Asked whether Tamil Nadu wanted early notification of the final award, he said that after the stipulated 90 days time, the state would insist on the Tribunal for the speedy implementation of the final award.
Seeking home comforts after multiple reverses at the Ferozshah Kotla, Delhi Capitals will be desperate to buck the trend when they take on a rejuvenated Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League, in Delhi, on Saturday.
590 cricketers -- including 370 Indian players and 220 overseas players -- will go under the hammer during the two-day mega auction in Bengaluru on February 12 and 13.
'These are people who are anxious to die.' 'We have not seen such type of committed people anywhere.'
'Your strike rate is very important when it comes to seat-sharing.'
The film is a highly melodramatic tale of friendship between a righteous temple priest and a hardcore killer.
The actresses have been summoned for posing for 'obscene' pictures.
Deogarh District Deputy Commissioner Amit Kumar, Superintendent of Police P Murugan and two other Health department officials were placed under suspension, hours after 10 devotees were killed in a stampede in the temple town of Baidyanath Dham.
Focus will now be on how Rabada would fare against the likes of Chris Gayle, Lokesh Rahul, Mayank Agarwal and David Miller.
Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa followers are waiting with bated breath as the Supreme Court will hear the bail petition of the former Tamil Nadu chief minister, who has been in a Bangalore jail for almost two weeks after she was convicted in a corruption case and sentenced to four years in jail.
The actresses posed in an 'indecent' manner in a Tamil newspaper.
