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CHENNAI: Congress and DMK started their seat-sharing talks at DMK headquarters on Saturday, with Congress asking for 41 assembly seats and two Rajya Sabha seats. DMK offered 25 assembly seats, the same as in 2021, and one Rajya Sabha seat. Power sharing, DMK told Congress, is off the table.DMK initially considered giving two additional assembly…
TIRUNELVELI: Two, including a guest worker, were hacked to death and five others sustained injuries in Perumpathu village, located on the Kalakkadu-Ervadi road near Nanguneri in Tirunelveli district, during the late hours of Monday.According to police sources, a gang entered Perumpathu village and hacked seven people who were standing outside a tea shop. As a…
File photo: PM Modi (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, accusing its leaders of competing in scams and failing to protect the state’s interests, while asserting that the NDA would form the next government.Addressing a massive rally in Madurai…
CHENNAI: Three-time chief minister and expelled AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam, 75, joined DMK on Friday morning. DMK is likely to give him a seat — possibly Bodinayakkanur in Theni, which he won in 2021 — to contest in the upcoming assembly election.OPS joined the DMK in the presence of chief minister M K Stalin at…
NEW DELHI: Expelled AIADMK leader VK Sasikala on Tuesday announced that she is launching a new political party in Tamil Nadu. She made the announcement at a public meeting in Ramanathapuram held to mark the birth anniversary of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa.“We are about to witness a new political chapter. We are going to…
VK Sasikala (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: Former AIADMK leader and close aide of late chief minister J Jayalalithaa, VK Sasikala, on Tuesday hinted at floating a new political party.Speaking at an event organised to mark Jayalalithaa’s birth anniversary, Sasikala said, “Today there is an event for Amma’s birthday. We are conducting an event for…
Girish Chodankar (File Photo) CHENNAI: Congress has demanded 35 seats in the upcoming election, while alliance leader DMK is willing to give only “two or three seats” more that its 2021 allocation of 25 seats, multiple sources told TOI.A day after AICC general secretary K C Venugopal met chief minister M K Stalin, AICC in-charge…
MK Stalin and Rahul Gandhi (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Congress has sought 45 seats from the DMK for the upcoming Tamil Nadu assembly elections, but the MK Stalin-led party is hesitant to allocate more than 25, leading to a deadlock, according to sources.The ruling DMK and the Congress kicked off their long-awaited seat-sharing talks…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has a total of 5,67,07,380 electors — 28,960,838 women and 27,738,925 men, according to the final electoral roll of the Special Intensive Revision 2026 released on Monday.Chief Electoral Officer of Tamil Nadu, Archana Patnaik, released the final electoral roll.Post the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the state saw 97.37 lakh voter deletions, with…
Delhi Police Special Cell arrests 8 accused involved in planning a terror plot linked with Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI, and Bangladeshi terrorist organisations. (ANI) NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police Special Cell has busted a terror module allegedly linked to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) handlers operating from Bangladesh, arresting eight suspects and preventing what officials described as…
