Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) Vice President R Mahendran and General Secretary A Arunachalam have sought legal action against Tamil Nadu Minister for Milk and Rural Development, Rajenthra Bhalaji, for instigating violence against party chief Kamal Haasan.
Even as the exit polls predicted a good show for his party, DMK President MK Stalin on Monday said he does not take the projections seriously and would wait for three days to know people's mandate.
Exit polls that have predicted a huge win for the BJP in the national election and a second term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi have been described as "a lie" by a key BJP ally in the south. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami said, "It's a lie by exit polls".
A Singapore-bound flight of a private carrier, which took off from Tiruchirapalli, made an emergency landing at the Chennai airport today following a "spark" in the engine, officials said.
Edited by Swati Bhasin | Sunday May 19, 2019, Sulur, Tamil Nadu
A 103-year-old woman was among the early voters this morning as polling began at around 7 am in Tamil Nadu's Sulur, one of the four assembly seats in the state where by-elections are being held today.
Facing severe backlash over his recent Hindu extremist remarks, Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan Friday claimed that the very term ''Hindu'' was not a native description, but only a foreign coinage.
Revenue officials in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district have rescued 50 labourers from three brick kilns after it was found that they had been engaged in forced or bonded labour for the past 12 years.
Slippers were thrown at actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasanon Wednesday evening when he was campaigning in Tirupparankundram assembly constituency in Madurai.
Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan's party Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) has demanded that State Minister for Milk and Dairy Development KT Rajenthra Balaji, who wanted Mr Haasan's tongue chopped for his comments on Nathuram Godse
Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan, whose party made its debut in the national election, said on Sunday that the first extremist in Independent India was a Hindu. Mr Haasan was referring to Nathuram Godse who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.
The court declined to stay a Madras High Court order restricting Puducherry Lieutanant Governor Kiran Bedi's authority to act independently of an elected government in the Union Territory
