When West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee left the SSKM Hospital in Kolkata on a wheel chair on March 12, her left leg heavily bandaged, it seemed to give a twist to the party’s Khela Hobe (The Game is On) slogan. A bruising electoral match will now be played in injury … Read more
The BJP campaigns in Tamil Nadu for the last few months indicated that the party has big plans for the state. However, within the alliance with AIADMK, BJP is contesting 20 seats and has got one Lok Sabha seat of Kanyakumari. The party leaders told ET that at this juncture, it is important for the … Read more
Actor-turned politician Kamal Haasan would make his electoral debut, contesting from Coimbatore South constituency in the April 6 Tamil Nadu assembly elections. The Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) president made the announcement here on Friday, releasing the second list of his party’s candidates. Remembering his late father Sreenivasan, Haasan expressed confidence that the people of his … Read more
Tamil Nadu assembly elections will be held in a single phase on April 6 and the counting of votes will be done on May 2, the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Friday. With this announcement, the model code of conduct comes into force. The assembly elections in the southern state are important for … Read more
CPI veteran and the party’s former state secretary D Pandian died here on Friday following illness, the party said. The 88-year old former MP was not keeping well and had been admitted to a government hospital where he breathed his last Friday. Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit, Chief Minister K Palaniswami, DMK President M K … Read more
The government has approved eight toy manufacturing clusters at a cost of Rs 2,300 crore to boost India’s traditional toys industry. These clusters will manufacture toys made of wood, lac, palm leaves, bamboo and fabric. The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) … Read more
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami urged the Centre to declare the Godavari-Cauvery river link initiative as a national project and said if it was done, it would benefit people in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Speaking during the virtual meeting of the NITI Aayog being chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Palaniswami noted … Read more
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday held an informal meeting with top industrialists of Tamil Nadu to elicit their views on the budget she presented on February 1. Chairman Venu Srinivasan, MRF Ltd Chairman M Mammen, India Cements Ltd Vice Chairman N Srinivasan, former Chairman R Seshasayee and Apollo Hospitals MD Sunita Reddy were … Read more
Amaravati: Union Minister Amit Shah will chair the 29th Southern Zonal Council meet scheduled to be held in the temple town of Tirupati on March 4. “Chief Ministers, Lieutenant Governors of 8 States/UTs in the Southern Zone will participate along with their respective Chief Secretaries, Advisers and other senior officers in keeping with important agenda … Read more
NEW DELHI: From Rs 1.03 lakh crore highway projects for Tamil Nadu to Rs 65,000 crore works for Kerala – four poll-bound states found special mention in the Budget speech of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday. Tabling the Budget 2021-22 in Parliament, Sithraman in her speech specifically announced Rs 2.27 lakh highway projects for … Read more