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Thursday, April 22, 2021,
Chennai
The wheel has moved a full circle for the Dravidian parties, which now seek to share power with the national parties at the Centre and rub shoulders with them during the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls.
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Thursday, April 22, 2021,
Chennai
The DMK and the AIADMK parties’ leaders admit that Kamal Haasan’s MNM could make a significant impact, especially in urban areas where the party enjoys a greater following on social media.
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Friday, January 3, 2020,
Chennai
The DMK-led opposition alliance established a psychological victory over the front formed by the ruling AIADMK in elections held to rural local bodies in December 2019. Coming just 15 months before the Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, the results have come as a shot in the arm for the DMK and its allies.
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Thursday, January 2, 2020,
Chennai
The DMK-led opposition alliance was ahead of the front led by ruling AIADMK in elections held to Tamil Nadu rural local bodies.
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Monday, December 23, 2019,
Ranchi
The Jharkhand result has established that the BJP is losing its political sheen across the country, and that the opposition parties just have to be patient in continuing the pattern of broad alliances to trounce the saffron party. Equally, parties like the Congress and JD(S) in Karnataka, and the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) should also learn from the Jharkhand lesson, undo their hasty act of snapping alliances after just one defeat.
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Monday, December 23, 2019,
Ranchi
The ruling BJP was ousted from power in Jharkhand, as the JMM-Congress-RJD combine swept the Assembly elections, leading in 47 of the 81 seats that went to the polls in December 2019. Hemant Soren of the Jharkhand Mukthi Morcha is expected to form a coalition government with the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal.
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Thursday, May 23, 2019,
Puducherry
Puducherry Speaker V Vaithilingam is leading in the Puducherry Lok Sabha constituency, ahead of his nearest AINRC rival Narayanaswamy Kesavan by over 1.36 lakh votes.
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Thursday, May 23, 2019,
Puducherry
The Congress-led government in Puducherry is relieved as its Lok Sabha candidate, Speaker V. Vaithilingam established an early lead for the lone seat in Puducherry. Vaithilingam was ahead of K. Narayanasamy of AINRC, who is being supported by several parties of the AIADMK-led front including the BJP.
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Thursday, May 23, 2019,
New Delhi
DMK-led UPA has established early leads in 16 of 38 Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu as counting commenced for Lok Sabha and 22 Assembly by-elections in the State.
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Thursday, May 23, 2019,
New Delhi
Counting has begun for 541 Lok Sabha constituencies in the country, with early trends, based on postal ballots, giving a lead to the NDA over the opposition. The NDA was leading in 89 seats (loss of 6 seats) , the UPA in 23 (a gain of one), and others in 33 (a gain of 4). In Uttar Pradesh, a close contest seems to be in the offing,
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018,
New Delhi
The results of the elections to three States – MP, Rajasthan and Vhhatisgarh – may have brought the Congress back to power and at the forefront of the struggle to dislodge the BJP from power at the Centre, but an analysis of the voting trends shows that the Congress needs to tie up with the BSP in various States to pip the BJP at the hustings.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018,
New Delhi
In a re-affirmation of DMK’s commitment to be part of a front against the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections, DMK president M K Stalin and his sister Kanimozhi called on Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in Delhi on Sunday, ostensibly to wish her on her birthday, but more to consolidate the DMK ties with the UPA.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018,
Chennai
The results of the elections to Assemblies of five States, particularly Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, could come as a big jolt to the BJP not just in terms of the possible loss of power in at least two States but could trigger a more serious loss of nearly 40 Lok Sabha seats in these States.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018,
Chennai
A photo of Congress president Rahul Gandhi at kauvery Hospital in Chennai has proved that DMK president M Karunanidhi is much better and that he is improving. The photo shows DMK Working President and Karunanidhi's son M K Stalin speaking to Karunanidhi who is very much conscious and not on any life-saving support.
Rahul Gandhi is seen standing next to Stalin, along with other doctors.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016,
Chennai
The ruling AIADMK has won all 3 Assembly seats, elections for which were held on Nov 19
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Friday, May 6, 2016,
Chennai
AICC President Sonia Gandhi has criticised the AIADMK government and the party over the tardy flood relief work in November-December last
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016,
Chennai
The DMK and Congress have reached an understanding for the Puducherry Assembly elections, with the Congress to contest 21 seats and the DMK 9.
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Friday, April 8, 2016,
Chennai
The DMK and Congress reached an understanding on April 8 on the 41 constituencies to be contested by the Congress in Tamil Nadu. No seats were allotted in Theni, Dharmapuri, Villupuram and Perambalur districts. The Congress would have to contest against the AIADMK in 40 of the 41 constituencies.
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Saturday, April 2, 2016,
New Delhi
The AIADMK will win the May 2016 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu but the lead will be a slender one, according to an opinion poll conducted by C-Voter in association with Times Now and India TV. However, a News Nation opinion poll predicts a hung Assembly in Tamil Nadu, with DMK slightly ahead of the ruling AIADMK.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016,
New Delhi
The BJP made some gains in by-elections held in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh results for which were declared on February 16