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  Is it a crime to be cordial with the Centre: TN CM Palaniswami hits back at DMK

  Politics | October 01, 2017 10:56 IST

  Taking aim at the DMK, Palaniswami said people knew those who had cordial ties with the Centre "for the sake of office" and criticised it when they failed to get benefits

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  Tamil Nadu crisis: Boost to EPS-OPS as Madras HC says no floor test till further orders

  Politics | September 20, 2017 16:02 IST

  The judge, while extending the stay on a floor test, also ordered that no by-elections will be held to the seats rendered vacant by the disqualification of MLAs

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  Tamil Nadu crisis: Speaker disqualifies 18 AIADMK MLAs backing Dhinakaran

  Politics | September 18, 2017 11:43 IST

  Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal disqualified 18 dissident MLAs of the AIADMK who were supporting sidelined party deputy general secretary TTV Dhinakaran

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  Palaniswami has no moral right to sit in power, will send this govt home: Dhinakaran

  Politics | September 12, 2017 15:58 IST

  Sidelined AIADMK leader T.T.V. Dinakaran, who is leading 21 party legislators, on Tuesday said he would work towards bringing down the K. Palaniswami government

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  Legal hurdles cleared for today's AIADMK General Council meeting

  Politics | September 11, 2017 23:45 IST

  The Madras High Court on Monday night upheld an order of a single judge dismissing a plea to stay tomorrow's AIADMK general council and executive committee meeting convened by Chief Minister K Palaniswami-led faction

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  DMK-led Opposition asks TN Governor to convene Assembly, conduct floor test

  Politics | September 10, 2017 19:17 IST

  The DMK-led Opposition on Sunday met Tamil Nadu Governor Vidyasagar Rao and demanded immediate convening of the Assembly and to direct the Chief Minister to prove his majority

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  ‘We are in majority’, claims unified AIADMK as 111 MLAs attend meet convened by EPS

  Politics | September 05, 2017 19:43 IST

  Amid the ongoing political crisis and demand for a floor test in the Tamil Nadu Assembly by the Opposition parties, 111 MLAs of the ruling AIADMK attended a legislator’s meet convened by Chief Minister E Palaniswami

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  Tamil Nadu crisis: AIADMK general council to be convened, Sasikala likely to be expelled

  Politics | August 28, 2017 13:56 IST

  The AIADMK will hold a crucial meeting on Monday to decide on the modalities of formal expulsion of jailed interim General Secretary V K Sasikala and to declare the actions taken by her nephew T.T.V. Dhinakaran against party office bearers

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  Tamil Nadu crisis: Dhinakaran removes CM Palaniswami from district secretary post

  Politics | August 27, 2017 12:37 IST

  Upping the ante in his fight against the ruling establishment, sidelined AIADMK deputy general secretary TTV Dhinakaran today removed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami from the post of party's Salem District Secretary

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  DMK moves Madras HC against ‘controversial’ trust vote in favour of Palaniswami

  Politics | February 20, 2017 12:27 IST

  The opposition DMK in Tamil Nadu today moved the Madras High Court against Saturday’s ‘controversial’ trust vote won by AIADMK supremo VK Sasikala loyalist EK Palaniswami. The court will take up the plea for hearing on Tuesday.

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  DMK to complain to Governor on assembly happenings: MK Stalin

  Politics | February 18, 2017 15:43 IST

  DMK working president MK Stalin today said that the party will meet Tamil Nadu Governor C Vidyasagar Rao to apprise him about the happenings in the state assembly.

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  ‘Don't smile at me’: Stalin’s advice to CM Palaniswami ahead of trust vote

  Politics | February 17, 2017 15:49 IST

  With newly-sown-in Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palamisamy scheduled to seek a vote of confidence in the state Assembly tomorrow at 11am, DMK's working president MK Stalin today offered him a ‘strange advice’.

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  ‘Dharma yuddh’ to continue, says OPS as his camp moves to EC

  Politics | February 16, 2017 16:24 IST

  Vowing to continue his fight to resist one family’s control over the AIADMK, Tamil Nadu’s outgoing Chief Minister O Panneerselvam today said that ‘his ‘dharma yuddh’ will continue until Amma’s (Jayalalithaa) rule is re-established in the state’.

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  Edappadi K Palaniswami sworn-in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister

  Politics | February 16, 2017 18:27 IST

  The political crisis in Tamil Nadu is most likely to come to an end today with reports suggesting that Governor Vidyasagar Rao will probably be inviting jailed AIADMK supremo Sasikala’s loyalist Edapadi K Palanisamy to form the government in the stat

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  Sasikala booked for alleged detention of AIADMK MLAs at resort

  Politics | February 15, 2017 15:57 IST

  AIADMK supremo VK Sasikala and legislative party leader Edappadi K Palaniswamy have been booked for alleged detention of party MLAs at a private resort near here.

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  Sasikala back in Bengaluru jail a day after conviction in DA case

  Politics | February 15, 2017 19:28 IST

  AIADMK supremo today visited the memorial of J Jayalalithaa at Marina beach and the Ramapuram residence of party founder MG Ramachandran before leaving for Bengaluru to surrender before a court.

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  Panneerselvam camp likely to visit AIADMK MLAs at resort

  Politics | February 14, 2017 14:49 IST

  In an apparent big to garner support for carertaker CM O Pannerselvam, to leaders from the OPS camp are likely to visit the private resort where party MLAs loyal to VK Sasikala are put up.

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  No force can separate me from AIADMK, says Sasikala in first appearance after conviction

  Politics | February 14, 2017 23:59 IST

  The fate of AIADMK general secretary Sasikala Natarajan, fighting a bitter power battle with Tamil Nadu caretaker CM O Panneerselvam after the demise of Jayalithaa, will be decided today as the Supreme Court is all set to deliver the much-awaited ver

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  Tamil Nadu crisis: Majority of MLAs with CM-designate Sasikala, says AIADMK spokesperson

  Politics | February 13, 2017 13:58 IST

  The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu has claimed that majority of MLAs are behind party general secretary and CM-designate VK Sasikala.

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  ‘No one can destroy our party’: Jayalalithaa’s last words in hospital, says Sasikala

  Politics | February 13, 2017 11:56 IST

  With the warring factions of ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu indulging in war of wards amid the political unrest for the ninth consecutive day, interim general secretary VK Sasikala’s emotional address to the party MLAs at a private resort in Chennai cam