2020 may have been a dampener for movie releases in theatres. But 2021 is expected to be better.
Left high and dry, the BJP has had no option but to go for the overkill with 800 rallies, including 20 by the prime minister. In the process, it may be overplaying its card, observes Amulya Ganguli.
The amount has been sanctioned from the chief minister's relief fund.
Aishwarya and upcoming star Dhanush tied the knot on November 18.
Days after securing a thumping victory in the R K Nagar by-poll in Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa took oath on Saturday as member of the Legislative Assembly.
'They have been imposing Hindi on Tamil Nadu,' says DMK spokesperson Saravanan Annadurai.
Senior Congress leader to support AIADMK
With this, the Maran family's cable TV network comes under government control.
As she read out from a prepared text, Jayalalithaa bowled over the audiences and the leaders with her Hindi.
The farmer said he was impressed and had benefitted by welfare schemes like the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi.
A document filed by her AK Bose, the Thirupparankundram candidate, showed the Tamil Nadu chief minister's thumb impressions in the designated space for signature.
PM has assured more help to flood-hit TN: Jayalalithaa
Public Works Department Minister O Pannerselvam cut a 57-feet-long cake at the party headquarters.
Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Thursday said he will move the Supreme Court against the acquittal of AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa in a grafts case.
Jayalalithaa has written to the PM complaining about FM's unilateral move on tsunami relief.
The CBI has asked the Speaker for permission.
In the final award, Tamil Nadu will get 217 tmc ft of water -- 192 tmc ft from Biligundulu and 25 tmc ft for envrionmental purposes between Biligundulu and Mettur.
This follows serious allegations of malpractices in the relief work levelled by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M Karunanidhi and other opposition leaders.
Shivraj Patil reviewed the situation with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
Ace Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is now in a wave of a storm for what appeared to be criticising the government of Tamil Nadu.
The apex court also allowed the plea of the Karnataka high court registry.
After an aerial survey of the flood-hit areas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced an immediate release of Rs 1,000 crore for relief and rehabilitation works in Tamil Nadu.
SC said that it will go into the issue of framing of charges only after hearing a petition filed by Jayalalithaa and others seeking discharge in the case.
Holding that it was All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo J Jayalalithaa, who had paid for the arrangements for the lavish marriage of her now estranged foster son VN Sudhakaran, the special court in the disproportionate assets case against her pegged the expenses incurred by her at Rs 3 crore.
There is nothing to suggest that the DMK stands to gain from the AIADMK split nor is there anything indicative of an extraordinary advantage for the BJP, independently or in the company of the AIADMK, explains N Sathiya Moorthy.
Dismissing the opposition Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham's charge of partiality in the take over of "select cable TV networks" in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa Sunday said her government had acted in an impartial manner by taking over MSOs.
While the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam contested it under the seven-party Democratic Progressive Alliance banner, her party contested the polls on its own, the CM said.
Moved by the plight of a young destitute woman who was sexually assaulted, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday extended a cash assistance of Rs 5 lakh and provided a government job to her.
The elephants received Jaya and then went canvassing door-to-door.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has threatened to invoke provisions of POTA against the Union minister for his speech allegedly supporting the LTTE.
In his order, the poll authority said required number of proposers had not validly proposed the candidature of Vishal Krishna and that the actor had been proposed only by eight valid proposers.
Such a centre would psychologically reassure the coastal population, she said in her letter to the PM.
This has been done to meet the constitutional obligation that the ministry's size should not exceed 10 per cent of the assembly's strength. The Tamil Nadu assembly has 234 members.
The minister's special aircraft narrowly missed a collision with an Indian Airlines flight.
In a bid to appease the public following the AIADMK's rout in the polls, she also restored free power to farmers.
