Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2016
Congress announces 9 candidates for Tamil Nadu pollsCongress on Friday night announced the names of 9 candidates for the May 16 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu which it is fighting in alliance with DMK. The candidates are Nasey R Rajesh, Karate R - Soothsayer, soothe me! Will I win? At least reclaim election deposit?
- Rs 4.8cr, 12 currency counting machines seized near Karur
As part of the crackdown on the use of unaccounted money in electioneering, police and IT officials on Friday conducted raids on the premises of a businessman at Ayyampalayam near Karur and seized Rs This is one family that flaunts its ideology.A Mohan, a committed CPI member and party candidate for Veerapandi in Salem, has named his sons Communism, Leninism and Socialism. - Top cop trades khakhi for white in Mylapore
The man had come to buy medicines at a pharmacy on R K Mutt Road, Mylapore.Seeing a familiar face walking by, he stepped out of the shop and shook hands with him. - Tamil Nadu's neighbour Pondy too French for prohibition plank
Tamil Nadu's political parties may be raising their glass to prohibition but in neighbouring Puducherry, known for its cheap yet good quality liquor, there's not a murmur about going dry. - Protest in DMK over candidate choice: Chappals hurled at A Raja's car
Police said around 400 DMK workers reportedly owing allegiance to former state minister D Ramachandran gathered in front of a hall in Kothagiri where Raja, former Lok Sabha member from Udhagamandalam, - ‘People don’t realize dangers of living on a river bank’
One of the most ardent fans of her party leader J Jayalalithaa, social welfare minister and AIADMK’s Thousand Lights candidate B Valarmathi, 59, grabbed eyeballs several years ago when she rolled on - Light shines on RK Nagar, but throats stay parched
Since the constituency voted her in with a margin of 1.5 lakh votes, Jayalalithaa, 68, has been showering it with infrastructure such as LED lights and facilities for pedestrians. Water supply, - Being out of power is enriching for DMK, gets donations worth Rs109 crore
Being out of power seems to be better for the DMK, which receives more in donations when it’s sitting in the opposition benches. The party received Rs11.5 crore in donations between 2008-09 and - Rajini's said a 100 no's, but hope lives on
"If I say something once, it's like I've said it a hundred times." That's Rajinikanth's most famous punchline from the 1995 hit Baasha. The dialogue might have charmed audiences no end, but it doesn't - 3rd gender gets a new champion in Tamil Nadu poll ring
While transgenders have contested polls before, Shankar is probably the first intersex candidate to do so in the state, or even the country. - Light shines on RK Nagar, but throats stay parched
Just a few kilometres from Fort St George, from where chief minister J Jayalalithaa steers affairs of the state, lies her constituency of Dr Radhakrishnan Nagar. - A touch of Modi in BJP poll manifesto
- Being out of power is enriching for DMK, gets donations worth Rs 109cr
Being out of power seems to be better for the DMK, which receives more in donations when it's sitting in the opposition benches. This election, social activist Gopi Shankar Madurai has decided to join the fray. The 25-year-old, an openly intersex and genderqueer person, feels that the election is the best platform to raise - Private lenders not under EC scanner for illegal cash
The exchange came at a time when concerns were being voiced about money flow that has become a feature of TN elections, and over whether 2016 will be any different. - In Kolathur, Stalin’s been the go-to man
Stalin’s template of nurturing a constituency is a model worth emulating. "If only other MLAs copy it, they need not bother about elections. Despite getting very little help from the government, he - BJP manifesto out on Thursday, plans to return temples to private trusts
Handing temples in Tamil Nadu back to private bodies and removing government control over them is one of the BJP’s main promises for the coming election. - AIADMK swaps Vellore seat with minor ally
In a statement, AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa said the party is withdrawing its candidate named for Vellore and instead announced K Kittusamy as its nominee from Oddanchathiram. Jayalalithaa had earlier - Vijayakanth's DMDK moves NHRC over deaths at Jayalalithaa's election meeting venues
Vijayakanth’s DMDK on Thursday moved the National Human Rights Commission seeking action against Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa after deaths were reported at her - Brahmin Association to support AIADMK
- In Velachery, Baasha actor in fray to fight graft
In January 2011, actor, HR consultant and motivational speaker Raja Krishnamoorthy, better known as Kitty, saw some shops were coming up illegally at a major intersection in Valmiki Nagar. “I felt - Bigwigs slug it out in Athoor
Periyasamy, who kicked off his poll campaign in Athoor on Wednesday, is considered more approachable and is known for the work he’d done in the constituency in the last five years. It’s his track - BJP manifesto out today, plans to return temples to pvt trusts
Handing temples in Tamil Nadu back to private bodies and removing government control over them is one of the BJP’s main promises for the coming election. Its manifesto, to be released on Thursday,
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