TN bids adieu to board exams
Class X students belonging to Matriculation, Anglo-Indian and Oriental streams of education in Tamil Nadu, who wrote their last board examination on Monday, would remember this day forever as they wer
4.6 cr to vote for TN rulers in 24 hrs
The high-pitched campaign doused in vitriolic abuse and weird promises of more and more freebies came to a close Monday evening, leaving the gladiators gasping in the rival DMK and AIADMK camps as the
Dravidian giants all set to battle for power
Amid charges of big-time corruption, Tamil Nadu is set for assembly elections Wednesday, its result bound to cast a shadow on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's ruling coalition.The main battle is as usual between the two Dravidian giants — the ruling DMK and the main opposition AIADMK, each heading carefully crafted umbrella groupings of their own.
D-day tomorrow for DMK, AIADMK
After an acrimonious fourteen-day election campaign, arch rivals ruling DMK and opposition AIADMK have held their breaths as the over 4.6 crore-strong electorate in Tamil Nadu will on Wednesday decide
Spin to win may be kings’ mantra
If the opening match between Knight Riders and Super Kings is any indication then IPL-4 at the MAC might not be a turbo charged T20 event spectators have grown used to.
The pitch that used to ensure
DMK creating a mirage to dupe voters: Jaya
AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa on Sunday equated the DMK’s attempt to create an illusion of sweeping the assembly polls by distributing money to voters with a story from the Ramayana in which Ravana creates a mirage of killing the abducted Sita to break Ram’s will.
In a poll first, Jaya slams Cong, rules out coalition
Launching her first salvo against the Congress in her poll campaign, AIADMK supremo Ms Jayalalithaa on Saturday said the UPA government at the Centre “deserved to be thrown out” as it was “inept, inef
Pranab defends PM, says he is not weak-kneed
Dismissing the Opposition charge that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was “weak”, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday asserted he was “very much alert and proactive” to all issues includ
Poll heat finally picks up in Dravidian heartland
Albeit the “like-never-before” Election Commission crackdown on several fronts, the poll heat has finally picked up in the Dravidian heartland with leaders of various political parties making pit stop
EC issues notices to Jaya, Vijayakanth
The Election Commission has issued notices to AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa and her ally DMDK chief actor Vijayakanth for their alleged personal attacks against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and his family members in their campaign speeches, officials said today.