Ajay. U. K Deputy CM O Paneerselvam was reportedly lobbying for his son P Raveendranath Kumar, who won the lone seat for the party from Theni. Reports from The News Minute suggest that the Deputy CM is keen to secure his son a place in the Union Council of Ministers. Sources in the BJP say…

-Ajay.U.K Despite losing all its deposits in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections in Tamil Nadu, Kamal Haasan’s newly formed party Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) is upbeat about the vote share their candidates have secured in urban and semi-urban areas. The party leadership has now asked all their candidates to kick off work of their 2021…

Varsha Sriram In the early hours of Monday, a man on a bike dumped three bags containing cash worth Rs 1.56 crores after escaping a high-speed police chase in Kotturpuram. The burglar fled the scene after the patrol police personnel chased him over suspicion.  According to Times of India, the patrol police personnel were on…

Dhruvi Modi After his embarrassing loss from the Theni constituency in Tamil Nadu against O Raveendranath Kumar, E.V.K.S Elangovan, the lone defeated candidate from Tamil Nadu Congress, is now blaming the Election Commission and the electronic voting machines (EVMs). The candidate contesting from the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance was defeated by a margin of more…

Varsha Sriram After looking through the preliminary report and conducting an internal review, TTV said that the party candidates did not secure a single vote in over 300 polling booths. After facing a massive defeat in both the Lok Sabha general elections as well as the by-elections in 22 constituencies of Tamil Nadu, AMMK General…

Varsha Sriram Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, which emerged as the third largest party in the country winning 23 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, on Saturday, elected former Union Minister and DMK Principal Secretary T.R Baalu as the party’s leader in the Lok Sabha.  Two days after the DMK-Congress alliance swept the Lok Sabha elections winning…

Dhruvi Modi With Chennai reeling under acute water shortage, as it does every summer, the government of Tamil Nadu is facing heat from the people of city as they are struggling to go about their day-to-day activities With Chennai reeling under acute water shortage, as it does every summer, the government of Tamil Nadu is…

Varsha Sriram While restaurants, hotels, grocery stores have switched to alternatives like jute bags, aluminum foil sheets, paper-based products, small hotel and street vendors are struggling to find cost-effect. Chennai: Four months after Tamil Nadu went plastic-free, at least on paper, single-use plastics have staged a comeback. Though the Greater Chennai Corporation claims to have conducted…

Ajay. U.K After the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments department directed temples across the state to perform poojas for rain, priests performed special prayers to please the rain gods. “Veyil thaanga mudiyala paa” (Cannot tolerate this heat) would be the first thing you hear if anyone from Chennai is asked about the life in the city…

Varsha Sriram Cutting across party lines, leaders have been caught making offensive, sexist remarks against their female counterparts, which is not only insulting to women in general but also violates the MCC. From attacking Priyanka Gandhi based on her looks and attire by calling her ‘skirt-waali bai’ to claiming that Smriti Irani “changes her husband…