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K Annamalai, the chief of BJP's Tamil Nadu unit, today asked party workers to strengthen its hold in the state to take on the ruling DMK after losing AIADMK, an important ally, from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), sources said.

The BJP faces a challenging time ahead and the party should gear up to oppose many people, its Tamil Nadu unit chief K Annamalai said and expressed his resolve to overcome all hurdles to usher in a 'political change.'

"AIADMK only will lead the alliance in the upcoming general election. You will see soon who will lead the AIADMK on that. Cadres have total belief in me that I will unite the AIADMK," Sasikala said.

Expelled AIADMK leader VK Sasikala has tested positive for the coronavirus and shifted to the COVID-19 intensive care unit, doctors treating the 63-year-old jailed aide of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said on Thursday.

A 30-year-old woman who was riding a scooter was hit by a truck on Monday morning after she tried to avoid a falling flagpole of the AIADMK on a highway in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore. Anuradha Rajeswari, who was riding the scooter, suffered serious fractures on both her legs after the heavy vehicle's front right wheel ran over them, the police said. S...

Parliament today passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019. The upper house earlier rejected the motion to send the contentious triple talaq bill - that makes instant triple talaq a criminal offence - to select committee for further scrutiny. The passage of the bill was supported by a non-aligned Biju Janata Dal, while N...

The contentious bill to ban Triple Talaq - the practice of Muslim men instantly divorcing their wives by uttering "talaq" thrice - which failed the the Rajya Sabha test last time, is expected to have a smooth passage today as the opposition to it suddenly crumbled. While Naveen Patnaik's Biju Janata Dal supported the bill, the AIADMK and Nitish Kum...

In a veiled attack on the BJP, days after its thumping Lok Sabha poll win, DMK president MK Stalin Saturday said a situation has now emerged that warranted his party's secularism plank to be pitched in other Indian states.

The month-long protest demanding closure of Vedanta's Sterlite Copper unit in Tuticorin took a violent turn on Tuesday. 11 people were killed as police opened fire on protesters who went on demanding closure of a copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu's port city of Tuticorin, prompting the ruling AIADMK government to issue appeals for calm and a prom...

A meeting of Tamil Nadu's united AIADMK -- which is expected to sack its jailed leader VK Sasikala -- will he held on Tuesday as scheduled, the Madras High Court has ruled.

A week after the two warring camps of E Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam put aside their differences and merged, the United AIADMK has set its eyes on the party's two mouthpieces - Jaya TV and the daily publication Namadhu MGR - which are currently under the control of sidelined and jailed party chief VK Sasikala's family, who they plan to expel soo...

AIADMK Deputy General Secretary TTV Dinakaran today said he will resume party work on August 4 after a two-month hiatus and embark on a state-wide tour to seek merger of factions

Sidelined AIADMK leader TTV Dinakaran, who was released on bail last week in a corruption case, stressed today that he remains number two in Tamil Nadu's ruling party and it is his "duty" to unite the party. To that end, Mr Dinakaran said, he would meet his aunt VK Sasikala at a jail in Bengaluru today, "not as a nephew but as her deputy" and start...

TTV Dinakaran, who is the centrifugal force for the political crisis in Tamil Nadu, "welcomes" the prospect of a merger of the two estranged teams of Tamil Nadu's ruling party, said ministers who met him this morning. Mr Dinakran appears to have little choice but to go along with the plan, given that his removal as the party's Deputy Chief is bein...

After 25 ministers and lawmakers held an emergency meeting in capital Chennai on Monday night, the VK Sasikala-led AIADMK faction that rules Tamil Nadu has "welcomed" what it said was an offer from the rival O Panneerselvam camp to discuss re-uniting the party. There is pressure reportedly on party chief Ms Sasikala and her nephew and deputy TTV Di...

K Annamalai, the chief of BJP's Tamil Nadu unit, today asked party workers to strengthen its hold in the state to take on the ruling DMK after losing AIADMK, an important ally, from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), sources said.

The BJP faces a challenging time ahead and the party should gear up to oppose many people, its Tamil Nadu unit chief K Annamalai said and expressed his resolve to overcome all hurdles to usher in a 'political change.'

"AIADMK only will lead the alliance in the upcoming general election. You will see soon who will lead the AIADMK on that. Cadres have total belief in me that I will unite the AIADMK," Sasikala said.

Expelled AIADMK leader VK Sasikala has tested positive for the coronavirus and shifted to the COVID-19 intensive care unit, doctors treating the 63-year-old jailed aide of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said on Thursday.

A 30-year-old woman who was riding a scooter was hit by a truck on Monday morning after she tried to avoid a falling flagpole of the AIADMK on a highway in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore. Anuradha Rajeswari, who was riding the scooter, suffered serious fractures on both her legs after the heavy vehicle's front right wheel ran over them, the police said. S...

Parliament today passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019. The upper house earlier rejected the motion to send the contentious triple talaq bill - that makes instant triple talaq a criminal offence - to select committee for further scrutiny. The passage of the bill was supported by a non-aligned Biju Janata Dal, while N...

The contentious bill to ban Triple Talaq - the practice of Muslim men instantly divorcing their wives by uttering "talaq" thrice - which failed the the Rajya Sabha test last time, is expected to have a smooth passage today as the opposition to it suddenly crumbled. While Naveen Patnaik's Biju Janata Dal supported the bill, the AIADMK and Nitish Kum...

In a veiled attack on the BJP, days after its thumping Lok Sabha poll win, DMK president MK Stalin Saturday said a situation has now emerged that warranted his party's secularism plank to be pitched in other Indian states.

The month-long protest demanding closure of Vedanta's Sterlite Copper unit in Tuticorin took a violent turn on Tuesday. 11 people were killed as police opened fire on protesters who went on demanding closure of a copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu's port city of Tuticorin, prompting the ruling AIADMK government to issue appeals for calm and a prom...

A meeting of Tamil Nadu's united AIADMK -- which is expected to sack its jailed leader VK Sasikala -- will he held on Tuesday as scheduled, the Madras High Court has ruled.

A week after the two warring camps of E Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam put aside their differences and merged, the United AIADMK has set its eyes on the party's two mouthpieces - Jaya TV and the daily publication Namadhu MGR - which are currently under the control of sidelined and jailed party chief VK Sasikala's family, who they plan to expel soo...

AIADMK Deputy General Secretary TTV Dinakaran today said he will resume party work on August 4 after a two-month hiatus and embark on a state-wide tour to seek merger of factions

Sidelined AIADMK leader TTV Dinakaran, who was released on bail last week in a corruption case, stressed today that he remains number two in Tamil Nadu's ruling party and it is his "duty" to unite the party. To that end, Mr Dinakaran said, he would meet his aunt VK Sasikala at a jail in Bengaluru today, "not as a nephew but as her deputy" and start...

TTV Dinakaran, who is the centrifugal force for the political crisis in Tamil Nadu, "welcomes" the prospect of a merger of the two estranged teams of Tamil Nadu's ruling party, said ministers who met him this morning. Mr Dinakran appears to have little choice but to go along with the plan, given that his removal as the party's Deputy Chief is bein...

After 25 ministers and lawmakers held an emergency meeting in capital Chennai on Monday night, the VK Sasikala-led AIADMK faction that rules Tamil Nadu has "welcomed" what it said was an offer from the rival O Panneerselvam camp to discuss re-uniting the party. There is pressure reportedly on party chief Ms Sasikala and her nephew and deputy TTV Di...