Amid speculation about him campaigning in favour of Narendra Modi after he endorsed the Bharatiya Janata Party's PM candidate, rebel Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader MK Alagiri is soon set to launch a state-wide tour to hold consultations with loyalists across Tamil Nadu as he looks to galvanise them ahead of Lok Sabha polls.
'Everybody knows Baalu and all the trouble he caused in UPA-I. The AIADMK thinks it can win with the distribution of money. It may work in some parts, but not everywhere.' Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar visits Tamil Nadu's rice bowl where a former Cabinet minister is fighting for political survival.
Tamil Nadu Election Candidates, TN 2016, Deepika Election Live, Thanjavur Election are some of the apps keeping people hooked to their handsets.
'The DMK may get a little more than 50% of the minority vote.' 'The AIADMK always gets over 10% of the minority vote.'
The going is not going to be easy for the DMK and its allies in Elections 2024. Despite the seats sweepstake in the 2021 assembly polls, the vote-share difference of 5.6% (DMK's 45.38% versus AIADMK-BJP's 39.72%) is not insurmountable on a bad day, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Tamil Nadu State Disaster Management Authority, in a tweet, said as per the latest updates #GajaCyclone is likely to have landfall between 8 pm and 11 pm on Thursday in all probability in Nagapattinam district.
Counting of votes is underway for four Lok Sabha and eight assembly Constituencies, spread across six states and one Union Territory where by-elections were held on Saturday.
All India Congress Committee General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, who is on a three-day visit to Tamil Nadu, visited Thanjavur on Wednesday and held meetings with Youth Congress activists and farmers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his government has always taken care of the welfare of Sri Lankan Tamils and 'consistently' flagged the issue of their rights with the leaders in the island nation.
Subsequently, Nivar weakened into a cyclonic storm and further into a deep depression, centered about 50 km west-southwest of Tirupati at 1430 hrs, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said. According to IMD, it is to weaken into a depression during the next six hours.
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The creation of a CDS has got the head right. Issues that were not talked about for years are now being discussed, points out Ajai Shukla.
The storage of water in the six major reservoirs in the state was just 6.2 per cent of capacity as of April 27, 2017, reports T E Narasimhan and Gireesh Babu.
The historic town of Thanjavur is getting ready for festivities as its world-famous Big Temple, an edifice of the great Chola kingdom, turns 1000.
Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated as "martyrs".
Excerpts from Jayanth Gurijala's book Exotic Engineer Entrepreneur that describes the journey of a software engineer and his love story.
'Never look at monetary gains when you are going to learn an art. Think of what you can create, money will follow later.'
Though he grew up in the green belt of Tamil Nadu, he chose to work in the driest areas of the state.
The policy aims to create around 5,000 startups, including 10 global high-growth startups, and to create a minimum of 100,000 high skilled job creation, direct and indirect, in the startup ecosystem by 2023.
Stalin's sister and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi will for the first time try her luck in the Lok Sabha.
It is collective positive action that will enable the warring cousins to carry forward the Thackeray mantle in 2010 and beyond. Fighting over a limited votebank could see their downfall just like what befell Shivaji Maharaj's successors till the Peshwas came on the scene decades later.
Chief Minister Stalin seems to have drawn a line between his personal beliefs and those of others in the family, beginning with wife Durga Stalin, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Flight services were disrupted in Karnataka while in Tamil Nadu, heavy rains battered Karur, Ariyalur, Perambalur, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and coastal Pudukkottai and Nagapattinam districts.
Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam led the strike against the Centre.
Incessant rains that lashed several parts of Tamil Nadu under the influence of a low pressure over the last two days claimed 12 lives so far, besides inundating standing crops in thousands of hectares in several districts. Reports received at the police headquarters in Chennai said the deceased included eight men, three women and a girl child.
Santhi Soundarajan, who failed a gender test after winning a silver medal at the Doha Asian Games, allegedly attempted suicide by consuming "some veterinary medicines".
Sharp showers continued to lash many parts of Tamil Nadu, including capital Chennai, resulting in water-logging in many areas and forcing closure of schools in the city even as the weather office forecast more rains.
'They suck talent and dump elsewhere,' says ZohO founder Sridhar Vembu.
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The deaths were reported from various districts after the onset of monsoon on October 22, he said, and announced that the solatium for the families of the victims has been raised from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh.
Baalu took copies of the Valmiki Ramayan, Tulasi Ramayan, Adhyathma Ramayan, Kamba Ramayan and many other books, as also copies of maps on Ramar Sethu.
Thursday's Opposition-sponsored bandh did not bring Tamil Nadu to a standstill.
Tata Consultancy Services would this year recruit over 30,000 engineering graduates worldwide, a senior company official has said.
Tiruchirapalli Mayor Charubala Thondaiman said the corporation had sought Rs 22.39 crore to repair the damage to roads, culverts, retaining walls etc, against the earlier demand for Rs 6.50 crore.
The cyclone lay about 720 km east northeast of Chennai over the Bay on Monday and it is very likely to move west southwestwards and intensify further into a severe cyclonic storm by Tuesday.
The Met office also warned of strong winds with speeds reaching 80 and 90 kmph along the north Tamil Nadu coast.\n
Unofficial sources put the toll in the twin tragedies at 100.
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Officials evacuated people from coastal belts and asked them not to go anywhere near the sea.
With the December 26 tsunami casting its dark shadow, the Pongal celebrations in many parts of Tamil Nadu were subdued on Friday, the second day of the four-day festival.
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