https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersCHENNAI: BJP’s refusal to acknowledge Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami as AIADMK-BJP Chief Minister candidate for the upcoming Assembly elections still continues, with the Tamil Nadu BJP in-charge C.T. Ravi tweeting: “It is clear tha...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersChennai: Superstar Rajinikanth announced on Tuesday that he would not enter into electoral politics due to his health issues. In a statement issued on twitter at 11:50 am, Rajinikanth stated that his recent health condition is a God’s warning to h...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersCHENNAI: In a setback to Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief Kamal Haasan, ahead of the 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, general-secretary A. Arunachalam joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Fri...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersSuperstar Rajinikanth, who was shooting for a film in Hyderabad, was admitted to a hospital on Friday for severe blood pressure fluctuations and exhaustion. In a statement issued by the hospital, it was said that he tested negative for coronavirus...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersCHENNAI: The ‘Rajini’ factor seems to be at play in Tamil Nadu. That’s what many political analysts in the state believe as far as the AIADMK-BJP relations are concerned. While the AIADMK government has made it clear that Edappadi K. Palaniswami w...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersCHENNAI: DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran’s convoy was stopped by PMK workers who started pelting stones at his vehicles when he was travelling with his party members on Tuesday. Though stones were thrown at Dayanidhi Maran’s car, he escaped without any dam...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersNEW DELHI: DMK president M.K. Stalin met Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit at Raj Bhavan to hand over a 98-page report citing alleged corruption charges against the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and his cabinet. After the meeting, which lasted mo...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersFollowing the meeting at the party headquarters, in a joint statement, AIADMK convener O. Panneerselvam and co-convener Edappadi Palaniswami have called for the party’s executive and general council meeting on 9 January2021. Along with the announc...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersChennai: The inquiry commission, headed by retired judge Aruna Jagadeesan, which is probing the Tuticorin firing case, is likely to summon actor Rajinikanth again. The inquiry commission’s advocate told the media: “Rajinikanth will be summoned soo...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersCHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government had allowed final-year undergraduate students and post-graduate students to attend classes from November. Though the government allowed the colleges to function, it stated that students can attend classes on a vo...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersChennai: On his second day of election campaign in Virudhunagar, to a question of him and Rajinikanth joining hands for the Assembly elections, Kamal Haasan said: “We both have come for change. We can decide only after Rajinikanth announces his po...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersCHENNAI: Making an indirect reference on Rajinikanth, DMK president M.K. Stalin, while virtually addressing the party cadres from Ramanathapuram district, took a jibe at the Tamil superstar and his ideology of spiritual politics. Stalin said, “Som...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersCHENNAI: As the state moves towards the Assembly elections, the Tamil Nadu government pushes more resolutely for J. Jayalalithaa’s memorial. Chennai district collector Seetha Lakshmi visited J. Jayalalithaa’s Poes Garden on Friday to oversee the w...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersCHENNAI: A day after superstar Rajinikanth met chief coordinator Arjuna Murthy and in-charge Tamilaruvi Manian, district secretaries were called for a meeting with the top office bearers. On Thursday, district secretaries from 6 districts includin...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersTamil Nadu farmers will not be affected because of the three farm laws, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami said after inspecting the rain affected area in Thiruvarur district. Responding to the question on the ongoing protest by farmer...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersChennai: The “Bharat Bandh” supported by DMK and allied parties was a partial success in Tamil Nadu as normal life was unhindered in any of the major cities in the state, though the Left parties and other political parties staged protest and court...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersChennai: A tense situation prevailed in the Virudhunagar district, as hundreds of AIADMK and DMK cadres clashed after DMK cadres burnt effigies of Minister Rajendra Balaji for his comment on DMK MP A. Raja.  The war of words erupted between both t...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersCHENNAI: An eight-member central team which arrived at Chennai on Saturday began the assessment works in the Chennai, Chengalpattu and Thiruvallur districts. The member team headed by Ashutosh Agnihotri was split into two teams and sent to differe...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersRajiniakanth on Thursday tweeted his decision on political entry with the hastag “let’s change everything” and “it is now or never”. In his tweet, Rajinikanth said “Party launch is in January, and the date will be announced on December 31” and fur...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersCongress’ Tamil Nadu in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao and other senior leaders met M.K. Stalin at the DMK headquarters on Wednesday and invited him for election campaigns with Rahul Gandhi.  Refuting speculations about seat-sharing talks, Congress ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersTamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami on Tuesday announced that the state government would constitute a committee to collect and examine caste data. The government has stated that such quantifiable data is required to fit the case against...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersTamil superstar Rajinikanth met Rajini Makkal Mandram district secretaries and a few other office bearers at the Raghavendra Marriage hall to take a decision on making a political plunge. At least 100 fans gathered in front of Rajinikanth’s reside...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted another storm, even as Tamil Nadu and Puducherry are yet to recover from the aftermath of cyclone Nivar. According to the prediction, the storm is brewing in the Bay of Bengal region and is l...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/nivar-turning-into-a-very-severe-cyclonic-storm-to-hit-tn-shores-today/November 25, 2020, 7:32 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Cyclone-nivar.jpgOthersThe cyclone is set to make landfall late evening today between Chennai and Puducherry. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersA well-marked, low-pressure area which was over the Bay of Bengal has concentrated into a depression and it is likely to intensify as a cyclonic storm Nivar in the next 24 hours and move towards Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. The Indian meteorological...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersAlangudi DMK MLA Poongothai Aladi Aruna was hospitalised after she reportedly consumed an excessive dose of sleeping pills. Aruna was heckled at a meeting called to discuss the preparation for the elections. She was moved to a private hospital for...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersTamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer Satyaprakash Sahoo on Thursday held a meeting with the electoral roll observers, appointed by the Election Commission to oversee the voter list revision process in the districts allocated to them. All the 10 IAS ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersCounselling for medical education admission in Tamil Nadu began on Wednesday with 7.5% reservation for the students who cleared NEET exams through government schools. Inaugurating the medical counselling in the Nehru Indoor stadium, Tamil Nadu Chi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersThe late DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi’s elder son, M.K. Alagiri, has refuted all the allegations of him joining the BJP during Amit Shah’s visit to Chennai. Alagiri was sacked from the party in 2014 by Karunanidhi after a turf war reached its height...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersWith Home Minister Amit Shah scheduled to visit Tamil Nadu next week, AIADMK official mouthpiece Namadhu Amma’s strongly-worded column has created ripples across both camps. Namathu Amma has criticised BJP for pursuing vote-bank politics based on ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersArundhati Roy’s book Walking with the Comrades has been withdrawn from the postgraduate English syllabus of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University in Tirunelveli after objection from ABVP. The book was based on her experience when she visited Maoist hi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersTamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswamy visited Tuticorin on Wednesday to hold a review meeting about the Covid situation in the districts. However, targeting the CM over the Sterlite encounter, DMK leaders were trending #GoBackEPS on Twitt...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersA petition moved by the BJP seeking the court’s direction to the police about not interfering with their Vel Yatra and a stay against the government order of prohibiting large gatherings with more than 100 people from 16 November was taken up for ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersIsrael Moses, a 26-year-old television journalist, has been hacked to death by a 4-member gang at his doorstep on Sunday due to personal animosity at Somangalam in Kanchipuram district. Moses’s father Ganaraja has stated in the complaint that his ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersThe Tamil Nadu BJP unit went ahead with its scheduled Vel Yatra despite the AIADMK government announcing that it will not grant permission, fearing it might aggravate the spread of the Covid-19 infection in the state. The Vel Yatra began from BJP ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersThe Tamil Nadu government on Thursday informed the Madras High Court that the permission for the rally cannot be granted for the BJP’s proposed “Vel Yatra” in view of the possibility of the second and third wave of Covid-19. A petition, which was ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersThe AIADMK is unhappy with the BJP using a photograph of M.G. Ramachandran (MGR) in a video to promote its “Vel Yatra”.Tamil Nadu BJP recently released the video for their “Vel Yatra” campaign having the image of AIADMK founder M.G Ramachandran tr...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersMakkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) president Kamal Haasan has said that his party is now in a position to head a third front in the state. He also said that he is ready to join hands with regional parties other than AIADMK and DMK. The actor-turned politic...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/rahul-to-hold-tractor-rallies-against-farm-laws-in-tamil-nadu/November 3, 2020, 5:52 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/dd371cb7_534_P_5_mr.jpgOthersThe state unit of the Congress has planned to conduct protests in 150 locations where tractors fitted with ploughs will be used in the agitation. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tamil-nadu-governor-gives-assent-to-neet-quota-bill/October 31, 2020, 8:11 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/e1e6d386_508_P_1_mr.jpgOthersGovernor Banwarilal Purohit gave his assent to the Bill a day after the Tamil Nadu government took the executive route to implement the quota regime from the current 2020-21 academic year. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersAs Manusmriti row snowballs into a major controversy in Tamil Nadu, BJP has launched massive agitation across the state demanding the arrest of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) chief Thol Thirumavalavan. VCK too has launched counter-protests a...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersTamil Nadu BJP education wing secretary Nandhakumar has written to Governor Banwarilal Purohit urging him not to give assent to the legislation recommending 7.5 % horizontal reservation for the students of the government school who clear NEET exam...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/political-parties-breathe-fire-as-tn-governor-delays-assent-for-quota-bill/October 24, 2020, 8:45 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/StalinurgesGovernortogiveassenttomedicalquotabill.jpgOthersDMK chief MK Stalin announced that the party workers would protest in front of the Governor’s House today https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersTaking a dig at AIADMK government, Pattali Makkal Katchi founder S. Ramadoss on Thursday said, “Jaganmohan in Andhra Pradesh does what he promises and has done more than what he promised. But the administrators here are refusing to pay heed to the...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersAIADMK minister D. Jayakumar has accused actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan of appeasing Hindus over his remarks about the Mahabharata in a Tamil reality TV show ‘Bigg Boss’. Kamal Haasan has recently spoken about the Mahabha...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersFive senior AIADMK ministers called on Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Tuesday seeking his early assent for the legislation that was passed by the state govt providing a 7.5% reservation to government school students who clear NEET for m...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersAfter Vijay Sethupathi confirmed to a Sri Lanka based radio that he will act in the biopic named 800 on, the retired Sri Lankan spinner Muthiah Muralidharan has asked the Tamil actor to drop the project as he doesn’t want his movie to become a hur...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersThe DMK has expressed its displeasure over the delay by Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit in giving his consent to the ordinance of granting a 7.5% horizontal quota in medical course admissions for the state’s government school students who c...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersA petition which was filed by Ramakrishan, President of Parents Teachers Association (PTA) seeking implementation of the 7.5% of horizontal reservation for the students who clear NEET exams from Government Schools in this academic year itself, cam...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/tn-cm-pick-to-be-announced-once-nda-comes-to-power-bjp/December 31, 2020, 3:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BJP.pngOthersActor Vijay Sethupathi has come under the rage of people for signing a project in which he has to play the role of ace Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan in the upcoming biopic named “800”. The teaser of the biopic was released this week. &nbs...