Voters lined up outside polling booths across Tamil Nadu and Keral on  Wednesday as elections to choose a new 234-member assembly began.

Voting is under way across Kerala to elect a 140-member

Moderate to brisk polling was reported in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Union territory of Puducherry which went to polls this morning amid tight security.

As polling proceeded at a brisk pace Wednesday to elect 234 members to the 14th Tamil Nadu assembly, the rival DMK and AIADMK kept up the sparring and each claimed it was on the victory path.

Around

Millions in the politically crucial southern states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territory of Puducherry on Wednesday queued up at polling booths to bring in new assemblies amid spar

Voicing confidence that his party will win the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls, DMK president M Karunanidhi on Wednesday hinted at a possible coalition government, a key issue said to have been raised by long-time ally Congress as a post-poll arrangement.

More than 78 per cent of voters exercised their franchise by 4 00 p.m. on Wednesday in the Puducherry Assembly polls, officials here said. “At 4 00 p.M. 78.86 per cent votes were cast with Yanam region touching a figure of 92 per cent,” an election official told IANS.

Tamil Nadu and Kerala Chief Ministers - M. Karunanidhi and V.S. Achuthanandan - today oozed confidence about a victory for their alliances and their rival fronts led by AIADMK and Congress were equa

Over 65 per cent of the electorate in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday cast their votes as polling ended peacefully in all 234-assembly constituencies Wendesday evening.

Though polling had closed at 1700 hou

Chennai: Tamil Nadu government on Thursday announced that admissions to medical courses would be on merit and not through the Common Entrance Test (CET) as directed by the Supreme Court in view of the

Chennai: Battle lines are being drawn for the Assembly polls due in April-May in Tamil Nadu with major political parties firming up or in the process of striking alliances.

While the ruling DMK had