Prime Minister Narendra Modi filed his nomination papers from Varanasi Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency at collector's office. Among those accompanying him were senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, Sushma Swaraj, Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray, JD(U)’s Nitish Kumar and Lok Janshakti Party’s Ramvilas Paswan.

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The top court’s stay order came on a petition by the Chennai-based Apollo hospital where the AIADMK matriarch had died. read more

PM Modi filed nomination papers on Friday morning in presence of senior NDA leaders, including Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, AIADMK leaders, Shiromani Akali Dal leader Prakash Singh Badal, Lok Jan Shakti’s Ram Vilas... read more

PM Modi’s road show on Thursday will begin from the Banaras Hindu University gates, where Modi will pay tributes to BHU founder Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya. A senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said the road show would be a “never before, never... read more

Leading lights on Tamil Nadu including chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami have condemned Sunday’s serial bombings in Sri Lanka. read more

Rajinikanth has said he is ready to contest assembly polls in Tamil Nadu whenever the state goes to the elections. read more

Curtains came down on polling in 38 Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly constituencies, where by-elections were held on Thursday. read more

They lined up patiently to cast their votes in the blazing sun, 156 inmates of a mental health centre here, eager to participate in the electoral process as polling was held in 38 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu Thursday. read more

Lok Sabha Elections 2019, Polling Phase 2: Kamal Hassan, the actor-turned-politician, and others had to wait for nearly half an hour before the polling started at the booth in Alwarpet Corporation School in Chennai after the electronic voting machine... read more

This is Kanimozhi’s first Lok Sabha election, she is currently a member of the Rajya Sabha. read more

The AIADMK created history by retaining power in Tamil Nadu by winning the assembly elections twice in a row, 2011 and 2016, ending a two-decade old trend. Tamil Nadu has flipped between the AIADMK and the DMK since 1989. read more

The bipolar nature of TN politics has seen a shift after the emergence of TTV Dhinakaran’s Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK), following a rift in the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) after JJayalalithaa’s death in 2016. read more

In the 2014 elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 27 out of these 95 seats. Another six seats of these 95 went to its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners. The Congress won just 12 out of these 95 seats in the 2014 elections, while other... read more

The raids came a day after I-T and EC officials raided the office and residence of senior Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader Kanimozhi in Thoothukudi. Police detained five AMMK workers for stopping officials from going into the party office in Theni... read more

The AIADMK swept the polls on the back of J Jayalalithaa’s popularity and won 37 of the state’s 39 Lok Sabha seats as the DMK drew a blank in the last election in 2014. read more