Tamil Nadu Assembly Polls 2011

Mamata Banerjee has an edge in Bengal and her Trinamool Congress could win 152 of the state's 294 seats with the BJP not far behind at 130 seats, says NDTV's poll of exit polls on state elections that were held alongside a steep rise in Covid cases a

Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu O Panneerselvam, who has been representing the Bodinayakkanur constituency since 2011, is attempting a hat-trick from here in the April 6 assembly election.

A record 77 per cent voting was recorded in Chennai's RK Nagar, the seat which had been left vacant by the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in December last year. Election officials the figure is the highest since 2011. During the 2016 assembly elections, around 67.6 per cent polling was recorded. The counting of votes will ...

DMK Treasurer and then candidate for Kolathur assembly constituency M K Stalin today appeared in Madras High Court in connection with a poll petition filed by AIADMK's Saidai Duraiswamy, who was his rival candidate in the 2011 polls, and denied all allegations raised against him.

The turn out of voters in assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry today is less than the 2011 polls, the Election Commission said. However, the percentage is likely to go up as the figures were not final.

Muthuvel Karunanidhi, who has scripted some of Tamil Nadu's biggest films, faced a disappointing climax today to the Tamil Nadu elections which saw him play a starring role at the age of 87.His political rival, Jayalalithaa, bolstered by her allies, has delivered near-record results in the election."The people of Tamil Nadu have given me rest," sai...

Election surveys by television channels on Tuesday gave a unanimous clean sweep for Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, predicting the end of the Communist rule, while they were divided on the outcome in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.Polls conducted during the polling in the states over the past month by Headlines Today-ORG, CNN-IBN-The We...

He can fly. He can run faster than a bullet shot from a gun. He can even stop an oncoming train with his bare hands. So what's stopping him from ruling the state of Tamil nadu? That's what Superstar Rajinikanth's fans want to know from him. These posters on the walls of Madurai have been put up by Rajni's fans, urging him to join politics.&nbs...

Coming down heavily against promise of freebies by DMK and AIADMK for the April 13 Tamil Nadu assembly polls, BJP today assured the people it would provide an "honest" and "transparent" government if voted to power.Releasing BJP manifesto, former party national President Bangaru Laxman said the ruling Dravidian parties through the years had failed ...

DMK President M Karunanidhi, who launched his party's poll campaign on March 23 from his home turf Thiruvarur, will start his next round of campaigning from March 30 and round it off at his constituency Thiruvarur on April 11.According to his campaign schedule released by DMK headquarters Anna Arivalayam, the 87 year-old leader will tour various ci...

District Collector U Sahayam today asked people not to accept money from political parties and cast their votes, saying it was not good for democracy."It is the duty of the voter to vote without taking money from any party," he said speaking at a function at Lady Doak College on "voting is a fundamental right", where he reminded students that the E...

A huge wave of applause and cheer ran across the crowds as their Chief Minister said, "All those in Tiruvarur are my relatives."As the DMK president M Karunanidhi launched the party's election campaign on Wednesday from his hometown Tiruvarur - a constituency the DMK has won five times including the last three times in a row - he expanded the list ...

From free grinders to 35 kg free rice every month for 1.6 million poor families, free bus passes for senior citizens to free laptops for Dalit engineering students, an increase in old age pension to new insurance scheme for fishermen, the DMK manifesto released here Saturday has offered sops to all.It also talked about an increase in loan assistanc...

Mamata Banerjee has an edge in Bengal and her Trinamool Congress could win 152 of the state's 294 seats with the BJP not far behind at 130 seats, says NDTV's poll of exit polls on state elections that were held alongside a steep rise in Covid cases a

Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu O Panneerselvam, who has been representing the Bodinayakkanur constituency since 2011, is attempting a hat-trick from here in the April 6 assembly election.

A record 77 per cent voting was recorded in Chennai's RK Nagar, the seat which had been left vacant by the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in December last year. Election officials the figure is the highest since 2011. During the 2016 assembly elections, around 67.6 per cent polling was recorded. The counting of votes will ...

DMK Treasurer and then candidate for Kolathur assembly constituency M K Stalin today appeared in Madras High Court in connection with a poll petition filed by AIADMK's Saidai Duraiswamy, who was his rival candidate in the 2011 polls, and denied all allegations raised against him.

The turn out of voters in assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry today is less than the 2011 polls, the Election Commission said. However, the percentage is likely to go up as the figures were not final.

Muthuvel Karunanidhi, who has scripted some of Tamil Nadu's biggest films, faced a disappointing climax today to the Tamil Nadu elections which saw him play a starring role at the age of 87.His political rival, Jayalalithaa, bolstered by her allies, has delivered near-record results in the election."The people of Tamil Nadu have given me rest," sai...

Election surveys by television channels on Tuesday gave a unanimous clean sweep for Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, predicting the end of the Communist rule, while they were divided on the outcome in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.Polls conducted during the polling in the states over the past month by Headlines Today-ORG, CNN-IBN-The We...

He can fly. He can run faster than a bullet shot from a gun. He can even stop an oncoming train with his bare hands. So what's stopping him from ruling the state of Tamil nadu? That's what Superstar Rajinikanth's fans want to know from him. These posters on the walls of Madurai have been put up by Rajni's fans, urging him to join politics.&nbs...

Coming down heavily against promise of freebies by DMK and AIADMK for the April 13 Tamil Nadu assembly polls, BJP today assured the people it would provide an "honest" and "transparent" government if voted to power.Releasing BJP manifesto, former party national President Bangaru Laxman said the ruling Dravidian parties through the years had failed ...

DMK President M Karunanidhi, who launched his party's poll campaign on March 23 from his home turf Thiruvarur, will start his next round of campaigning from March 30 and round it off at his constituency Thiruvarur on April 11.According to his campaign schedule released by DMK headquarters Anna Arivalayam, the 87 year-old leader will tour various ci...

District Collector U Sahayam today asked people not to accept money from political parties and cast their votes, saying it was not good for democracy."It is the duty of the voter to vote without taking money from any party," he said speaking at a function at Lady Doak College on "voting is a fundamental right", where he reminded students that the E...

A huge wave of applause and cheer ran across the crowds as their Chief Minister said, "All those in Tiruvarur are my relatives."As the DMK president M Karunanidhi launched the party's election campaign on Wednesday from his hometown Tiruvarur - a constituency the DMK has won five times including the last three times in a row - he expanded the list ...

From free grinders to 35 kg free rice every month for 1.6 million poor families, free bus passes for senior citizens to free laptops for Dalit engineering students, an increase in old age pension to new insurance scheme for fishermen, the DMK manifesto released here Saturday has offered sops to all.It also talked about an increase in loan assistanc...