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Chennai's electoral battleground is set, with DMK leaders M K Stalin and Udhayanidhi Stalin contesting key seats. The party relies on its governance and a blend of experienced and new candidates. TVK's presence could impact close contests, while AIADMK veterans face the challenge of reconnecting with younger voters.

Soon after V-C V G Talawar and zoology professor Shivabasavaiah were booked by city police, research scholar M Saritha's husband D R Vijayakumar on Tuesday claimed he was receiving threat calls.

Chief minister and AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalitha on Wednesday announced the names of four candidates for the Rajya Sabha election on June 11

The post of the city commissioner of police has remained a hot seat in the last eight years, with two successive governments indulging in frequent juggling of officers.

There is a top level rejig in broadcaster Sun TV Network with Kaviya Kalanithi Maran, daughter of the company’s chairman Kalanithi Maran, joining the board as additional director. She will remain on the board for five years starting April 1.

The Madras high court has reversed a clean chit given by a company court to actor R Vijayakumar in a forgery-cum-land deal case. By the time the company court absolved Vijayakumar of all criminal charges on January 6, 2011, a magistrate court in the city had examined 44 witnesses and 85 documents, and the trial was nearing completion.

Six Rajya Sabha nominees from Tamil Nadu - four from AIADMK and two from DMK, are all set to be elected unopposed.Nominations of seven independents were rejected on Wednesday.

AIADMK’s two-time Lok Sabha member from Tiruvallur, P Venugopal, will continue as its parliamentary party leader, party chief and Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa said in a party release on Wednesday. Venugopal is the party's floor leader in the Lok Sabha.

A gang led by the brother of slain Pon Vilaintha Kalathur village panchayat president R D Vijayakumar hacked to death a 35-year-old man in an apparent revenge attack in his house near Chengalpet on Sunday afternoon.