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Tamil Nadu Polls: Piyush Goyal to seal NDA seat-sharing pact today
Chennai: Union Minister and BJP’s Tamil Nadu election in-charge Piyush Goyal is set to arrive in Chennai on Monday, March 23, for a crucial round of discussions aimed at finalising the long-pending…
- India
Deadline Politics: DMK pressures allies over seat-sharing dispute
Chennai: Mounting pressure within the DMK-led alliance has prompted the party leadership to draw a hard line, asking its partners to accept the proposed seat-sharing formula by Monday, March 23, or risk…
- India
Tamil Nadu: No alliance with NDA, TVK to go alone says Vijay
Dismissing speculation about the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) aligning with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, party president Vijay on Wednesday asserted that there would be…
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Bengal elections in two phases, Assam, Kerala, TN, Puducherry in one: ECI
The Election Commission of India on Sunday, March 15, announced that the Assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry will be held in one phase, while…
- India
EC to announce assembly poll dates on Sunday evening
New Delhi: The Election Commission will announce the dates for the Assembly polls on the evening of Sunday, March 15. Polls are due in West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry.…
- India
TN: Over 20 students injured as goods train hits college bus near Karur
Karur: Over 20 students of a private engineering college were injured after the bus they were travelling in was hit by a goods train in Karur on Saturday, March 14, police said.…
- India
Section of TN hotels declare holiday citing shortage of LPG cylinders
Chennai: A section of hotels and restaurants operating in Chennai and parts of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday, March 11, declared a holiday following the lack of commercial LPG supply to the establishments,…
- India
Newly appointed Bengal Governor R N Ravi to be sworn in on Thursday
Kolkata: Newly appointed West Bengal Governor R N Ravi is likely to arrive here on Wednesday, March 11, evening, a day before the scheduled swearing-in ceremony at Lok Bhavan, an official said.…
- Hyderabad
New Amrit Bharat Express trains to link Hyderabad’s Cherlapalli with Nagercoil, Kamakhya
Hyderabad: Indian Railways on Tuesday announced the introduction of two Amrit Bharat Express trains from Cherlapalli near Hyderabad — one connecting Cherlapalli with Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu and another linking Cherlapalli with…
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TN: Dalit youth dies in judicial custody, family claims police brutality
Madurai: High tension prevailed at the Madurai Government Rajaji Hospital in Tamil Nadu on Sunday, March 8, after a 26-year-old Dalit youth, arrested in connection with an assault case, died in judicial…
- India
DMK chief M K Stalin to kick-start poll campaign in Tiruchirappalli
Tiruchirappalli: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin will launch DMK’s poll campaign at the party’s 12th state conference from Siruganur on the Trichy-Chennai national highway here on Monday, March 9. The…
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Disabled Dalit, migrant worker hacked to death in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli
Tirunelveli: A disabled Dalit man and a migrant worker from Odisha were allegedly hacked to death by a nine-member gang in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district in a targeted caste attack on Monday, March…
- Chennai
Tirupparankundram Deepam issue given a mischievous political spin: Madras HC
Madurai: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday, March 3, remarked that Minerals and Mines Minister S Regupathy had “given a mischievous political spin” to the Tirupparankundram issue when…
- India
Indian Coast Guard escorts 3,741 pilgrims from Katchatheevu to Rameswaram
Chennai: The Indian Coast Guard provided security and surface-to-air escort to 3,741 pilgrims, who travelled from Tamil Nadu and other states to Katchatheevu Island for the annual two-day festival at St Antony’s…
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3-month heatwave in TN; Moderate rain for Western Ghats Today, says IMD
Chennai: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast moderate rainfall in the Western Ghats districts over the next two days, even as it issued a warning of an impending heatwave likely to…