Ms Sasikala

D Roopa, the senior Karnataka police officer who won accolades for exposing special treatment to jailed AIADMK leader VK Sasikala in Bengaluru jail, has landed in a fresh controversy. This one, over an award she reportedly turned down.

D Roopa, the Indian Police Service (IPS) officer who uncovered the alleged special privileges enjoyed by VK Sasikala in a Bengaluru jail, has refused to accept the "Namma Bengaluru Award" because it comes with a high cash reward.

More than a year after her death, the last days of iconic Tamil Nadu leader J Jayalalithaa remains the subject of intense debate between political leaders who lay claim to her legacy. Days after VK Sasikala -- the longtime companion of the former Chief Minister -- told an inquiry commission about Ms Jayalalithaa's being videographed during her fina...

Stoking a fresh row when a high level investigation is under way into former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's death, her close aide VK Sasikala's brother - V Divakaran - now claims that Ms Jayalalithaa died a day before the official announcement was made. The allegation has been denied by Apollo Hospitals that had said Jayalalithaa died o...

The result of the by-election for Chennai's RK Nagar assembly constituency, which fell vacant after the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa last December, were declared today. Independent candidate TTV Dhinakaran, who was sidelined from the AIADMK by the EPS and OPS faction, won the prestigious and much-sought-after RK Nagar as...

The by-election for Chennai's RK Nagar assembly seat, which fell vacant after the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa last December, is being held today. It is vital for the AIADMK, seemingly rudderless since Ms Jayalalithaa died, to establish that Chief Minister E Palaniswami and his team are in control.

VK Sasikala, recently removed as the chief of Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK, has requested parole for 15 days to attend to her husband M Natarajan, who is critically ill. Ms Sasikala has been in a Bengaluru prison since February this year in a corruption case.

Representatives of ousted AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran today approached the Election Commission (EC) and urged it to declare as invalid the party's general council meeting in which his aunt Ms VK Sasikala was removed as general secretary.

J Jayalalithaa will be the AIADMK's "eternal general secretary," Tamil Nadu's ruling party said today, scrapping the post and sacking VK Sasikala, who is in jail. The party will be run by Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam as Chief Coordinator and Chief Minister E Palaniswami as his assistant at the head of an 11-member panel. Today's meeting ma...

A meeting of Tamil Nadu's united AIADMK -- which is expected to sack its jailed leader VK Sasikala -- will he held on Tuesday as scheduled, the Madras High Court has ruled.

After months of hard negotiations and several false starts, as two rival factions of Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK announced a merger, dissent rose from 18 party lawmakers who are opposed to the decision to expel VK Sasikala. The lawmakers say they will meet the Governor tomorrow to decide on their next course of action - a comment that is seen as a p...

Wearing a brown outfit, politician VK Sasikala enters the jail in Bengaluru where she is serving four years for corruption on the orders of the Supreme Court. The video is proof that Ms Sasikala gets special treatment as a prisoner according to a police officer who has alleged that nearly 2 crores of bribes paid by the politician allow her illegiti...

Despite elaborate flower arrangements and expectant party members waiting at the shoreside memorial of J Jayalalithaa in Chennai, the merger of the two rival factions that were formed in her party after her death ran into last-minute glitches: Chief Minister E Palaniswami and his predecessor, O Panneerselvam, or "EPS" and "OPS" in popular parlance,...

Tamil Nadu ministers meeting AIADMK chief VK Sasikala in jail is a breach of their oath of secrecy, says the Madras High Court. Four ministers and Chief Minister E Palaniswami have been issued notice on a petition that alleges that Ms Sasikala, serving a four-year sentence for corruption, is running the Tamil Nadu government from a jail.

D Roopa, the Karnataka police officer who had alleged that AIADMK chief VK Sasikala is enjoying VIP facilities in a Bengaluru prison, was transferred today. Her boss and the state's in-charge of prisons HN Satyanarayana Rao, whom she had accused of accepting a bribe from Ms Sasikala, has been asked to go on leave.

D Roopa, the senior Karnataka police officer who won accolades for exposing special treatment to jailed AIADMK leader VK Sasikala in Bengaluru jail, has landed in a fresh controversy. This one, over an award she reportedly turned down.

D Roopa, the Indian Police Service (IPS) officer who uncovered the alleged special privileges enjoyed by VK Sasikala in a Bengaluru jail, has refused to accept the "Namma Bengaluru Award" because it comes with a high cash reward.

More than a year after her death, the last days of iconic Tamil Nadu leader J Jayalalithaa remains the subject of intense debate between political leaders who lay claim to her legacy. Days after VK Sasikala -- the longtime companion of the former Chief Minister -- told an inquiry commission about Ms Jayalalithaa's being videographed during her fina...

Stoking a fresh row when a high level investigation is under way into former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's death, her close aide VK Sasikala's brother - V Divakaran - now claims that Ms Jayalalithaa died a day before the official announcement was made. The allegation has been denied by Apollo Hospitals that had said Jayalalithaa died o...

The result of the by-election for Chennai's RK Nagar assembly constituency, which fell vacant after the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa last December, were declared today. Independent candidate TTV Dhinakaran, who was sidelined from the AIADMK by the EPS and OPS faction, won the prestigious and much-sought-after RK Nagar as...

The by-election for Chennai's RK Nagar assembly seat, which fell vacant after the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa last December, is being held today. It is vital for the AIADMK, seemingly rudderless since Ms Jayalalithaa died, to establish that Chief Minister E Palaniswami and his team are in control.

VK Sasikala, recently removed as the chief of Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK, has requested parole for 15 days to attend to her husband M Natarajan, who is critically ill. Ms Sasikala has been in a Bengaluru prison since February this year in a corruption case.

Representatives of ousted AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran today approached the Election Commission (EC) and urged it to declare as invalid the party's general council meeting in which his aunt Ms VK Sasikala was removed as general secretary.

J Jayalalithaa will be the AIADMK's "eternal general secretary," Tamil Nadu's ruling party said today, scrapping the post and sacking VK Sasikala, who is in jail. The party will be run by Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam as Chief Coordinator and Chief Minister E Palaniswami as his assistant at the head of an 11-member panel. Today's meeting ma...

A meeting of Tamil Nadu's united AIADMK -- which is expected to sack its jailed leader VK Sasikala -- will he held on Tuesday as scheduled, the Madras High Court has ruled.

After months of hard negotiations and several false starts, as two rival factions of Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK announced a merger, dissent rose from 18 party lawmakers who are opposed to the decision to expel VK Sasikala. The lawmakers say they will meet the Governor tomorrow to decide on their next course of action - a comment that is seen as a p...

Wearing a brown outfit, politician VK Sasikala enters the jail in Bengaluru where she is serving four years for corruption on the orders of the Supreme Court. The video is proof that Ms Sasikala gets special treatment as a prisoner according to a police officer who has alleged that nearly 2 crores of bribes paid by the politician allow her illegiti...

Despite elaborate flower arrangements and expectant party members waiting at the shoreside memorial of J Jayalalithaa in Chennai, the merger of the two rival factions that were formed in her party after her death ran into last-minute glitches: Chief Minister E Palaniswami and his predecessor, O Panneerselvam, or "EPS" and "OPS" in popular parlance,...

Tamil Nadu ministers meeting AIADMK chief VK Sasikala in jail is a breach of their oath of secrecy, says the Madras High Court. Four ministers and Chief Minister E Palaniswami have been issued notice on a petition that alleges that Ms Sasikala, serving a four-year sentence for corruption, is running the Tamil Nadu government from a jail.

D Roopa, the Karnataka police officer who had alleged that AIADMK chief VK Sasikala is enjoying VIP facilities in a Bengaluru prison, was transferred today. Her boss and the state's in-charge of prisons HN Satyanarayana Rao, whom she had accused of accepting a bribe from Ms Sasikala, has been asked to go on leave.