Aap In Tamil Nadu

INDIA bloc candidate and Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur today won the Dehra assembly bypoll in Himachal Pradesh while the alliance's AAP secured the Jalandhar West seat and Trinamool Congress took two in West Bengal.

The grand consecration ceremony at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya is set to begin in a few hours. Religious leaders, film stars, sportspersons, musicians and other noted personalities have flown in from across the country for the event.

Raghav Chadha on Monday took a break from wedding preps - the AAP MP is expected to marry actor Kiara Advani in Rajasthan this month - to take a dig at the BJP after it was dumped by Tamil Nadu ally AIADMK.

CBI has secured a conviction in an 'abetment to suicide' case after a court in Puducherry sentenced a man, Pradeep to five years' rigorous imprisonment over the 2012 death by suicide of Priyadarshini, a MBBS student.

Arvind Kejriwal, who leads the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), is scheduled to meet Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on June 2 as part of this ongoing effort.

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan undertook a 170-km political tour from Rameswaram to Madurai today, holding public meetings at Ramanathapuram, Paramakudi and Manamadurai before announcing the name of his party - Makkal Needhi Maiam - which means "People's Justice Centre" and hoisting the party flag. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP lawmak...

As superstar Kamal Haasan took the plunge into politicson Wednesday, announcing his party "Makkal Needhi Maiam" the special guest for the event was Arvind Kejriwal, seen as an expert in start-up political parties. The Delhi Chief Minister, whose Aam Aadmi Party swept to power in Delhi in 2015, just three years after its inception, flew down to Madu...

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Somnath Bharti, along with 27 party workers, was taken into custody today for allegedly trying to take out a rally without permission while demanding setting up of a Lokayukta in Tamil Nadu.

MDMK founder Vaiko today met Aam Aadmi Party's Tamil Nadu leadership in Chennai, setting off speculation about a pact ahead of the May 16 Tamil Nadu Assembly polls.

Aam Aadmi Party is likely to contest the upcoming Assembly election in Tamil Nadu as part of the People's Welfare Front that includes V Gopalsamy-led MDMK and Left parties.

A thirty-year-old cotton farmer from Tamil Nadu's Tiruvarur district, killed himself yesterday by consuming pesticide, after heavy, unseasonal rains on Friday night destroyed half his crop.

Aam Aadmi Party workers today stormed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam's residence in Chennai today, protesting for around half-an-hour and demanding a CBI probe into the death of Agricultural Engineer S Muthukumarasamy.

Under attack from BJP for allegedly adopting a partisan approach against it, election authorities and local administration today asserted that the Lok Sabha polls would be held in a "free and fair" manner in Varanasi tomorrow.

Apart from the high-stakes battle, the Varanasi constituency has achieved the distinction of having the highest number of candidates (42) in fray for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. It, however, has to share the honour with Chennai South which has an equal number of contestants.

The Aam Admi Party seeks to catch the people's attention in its electoral debut in Tamil Nadu during the Lok Sabha polls banking on the "good" background of some of its candidates and capitalising on the social-media savy educated and employed volunteers.

INDIA bloc candidate and Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur today won the Dehra assembly bypoll in Himachal Pradesh while the alliance's AAP secured the Jalandhar West seat and Trinamool Congress took two in West Bengal.

The grand consecration ceremony at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya is set to begin in a few hours. Religious leaders, film stars, sportspersons, musicians and other noted personalities have flown in from across the country for the event.

Raghav Chadha on Monday took a break from wedding preps - the AAP MP is expected to marry actor Kiara Advani in Rajasthan this month - to take a dig at the BJP after it was dumped by Tamil Nadu ally AIADMK.

CBI has secured a conviction in an 'abetment to suicide' case after a court in Puducherry sentenced a man, Pradeep to five years' rigorous imprisonment over the 2012 death by suicide of Priyadarshini, a MBBS student.

Arvind Kejriwal, who leads the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), is scheduled to meet Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on June 2 as part of this ongoing effort.

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan undertook a 170-km political tour from Rameswaram to Madurai today, holding public meetings at Ramanathapuram, Paramakudi and Manamadurai before announcing the name of his party - Makkal Needhi Maiam - which means "People's Justice Centre" and hoisting the party flag. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP lawmak...

As superstar Kamal Haasan took the plunge into politicson Wednesday, announcing his party "Makkal Needhi Maiam" the special guest for the event was Arvind Kejriwal, seen as an expert in start-up political parties. The Delhi Chief Minister, whose Aam Aadmi Party swept to power in Delhi in 2015, just three years after its inception, flew down to Madu...

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Somnath Bharti, along with 27 party workers, was taken into custody today for allegedly trying to take out a rally without permission while demanding setting up of a Lokayukta in Tamil Nadu.

MDMK founder Vaiko today met Aam Aadmi Party's Tamil Nadu leadership in Chennai, setting off speculation about a pact ahead of the May 16 Tamil Nadu Assembly polls.

Aam Aadmi Party is likely to contest the upcoming Assembly election in Tamil Nadu as part of the People's Welfare Front that includes V Gopalsamy-led MDMK and Left parties.

A thirty-year-old cotton farmer from Tamil Nadu's Tiruvarur district, killed himself yesterday by consuming pesticide, after heavy, unseasonal rains on Friday night destroyed half his crop.

Aam Aadmi Party workers today stormed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam's residence in Chennai today, protesting for around half-an-hour and demanding a CBI probe into the death of Agricultural Engineer S Muthukumarasamy.

Under attack from BJP for allegedly adopting a partisan approach against it, election authorities and local administration today asserted that the Lok Sabha polls would be held in a "free and fair" manner in Varanasi tomorrow.

Apart from the high-stakes battle, the Varanasi constituency has achieved the distinction of having the highest number of candidates (42) in fray for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. It, however, has to share the honour with Chennai South which has an equal number of contestants.

The Aam Admi Party seeks to catch the people's attention in its electoral debut in Tamil Nadu during the Lok Sabha polls banking on the "good" background of some of its candidates and capitalising on the social-media savy educated and employed volunteers.