Chennai: Former AIADMK minister K C Veeramani and Arcot MLA S M Sukumar skipped the party’s review meeting chaired by general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday. The event was part of series of district wise functionaries’ meetings convened to analyse the party’s poor electoral show.Veeramani’s associates said that the former minister left for USA…
MDMK general secretary Vaiko Chennai: MDMK is likely to make a formal announcement of its exit from the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance after its general council meeting on Saturday. Senior MDMK functionaries told TOI that members of the committee unanimously backed the proposal to quit the alliance. Meanwhile, one of the two MDMK MLAs who…
Chennai: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday appointed Natham R Viswanathan and S P Velumani as party deputy general secretaries, and Varasur A Arunachalam as party headquarters secretary. The appointments have signalled an improvement in ties with the leaders who had patched up with EPS after rebelling against him. Senior leaders P Thangamani,…
“In Ghaziabad, we already have one permanent helipad in police lines premises,” says PWD chief engineer Ramraja. Ghaziabad: In about 10 months, the state will go for assembly elections. Against this backdrop, the district will soon have two permanent helipads.With the poll preparations under way, UP govt has directed the state PWD to expeditiously come…
AS THE Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the Election Commission’s SIR of electoral rolls was constitutional, the Opposition parties, led by the Congress, said the verdict raised many questions. The petitioners who had challenged the exercise in court said the judgment had put a stamp of approval on the disenfranchisement of millions of electors…
Senior IAS officer Neelam Meena was on Monday appointed as the new chief electoral officer of West Bengal after Manoj Kumar Agarwal was elevated as the state’s chief secretary recently. In a letter to the state chief secretary, the poll authority said Meena, a 1998 batch IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre, is being…
Tamil Nadu CM Vijay poses for a group photo at the ministers’ swearing-in ceremony in Chennai on Thursday. (@CMOTamilnadu X/ANI Photo) Chennai: Sixteen MLAs inducted into the state cabinet — N Anand, Venkatramanan P, T K Prabhu, R Vinoth, B Rajkumar, V Gandhiraj, K Jegadeshwari, M Vijay Balaji, Vijay Tamilan Parthiban, S Ramesh, K Thennarasu,…
The Uttar Pradesh government has accelerated preparations for its ambitious plan to distribute free electric scooters to meritorious girl students in higher educational institutions ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections. The ₹400-crore budget allocation is sufficient to procure nearly 72,700 scooters, according to official estimates (Sourced) Under the Rani Lakshmibai Scooter Scheme, one of the…
