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Gurgaon now has more than 4,000 active cases – the current count of active cases in the district is 4,455, of which 4,160 are in home isolation. (Express Photo: Praveen Khanna)
Tamil Nadu Telangana Assembly Elections COVID-19 April 2 Highlights: Tamil Nadu recorded 2817 positive cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the state tally to 8,89,490. Among these, Chennai reported 1083 positive cases, bringing the city’s total to 2,50,000. The state recorded 19 deaths on Wednesday, putting the state toll at 12,738 Sixteen of them had succumbed due to comorbidities. A total of 1634 patients were discharged following treatment, taking the total number of recoveries to 8,59,709.
If V K Sasikala’s family has lost out the most in Tamil Nadu politics after J Jayalalithaa’s death, spare a thought for Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam. Picked twice by Jayalalithaa to serve as stop-gap CM while she had to step down over charges, the 70-year-old who might have expected the chair following her death as reward for this abiding loyalty now finds it irretrievably out of reach. And it may get worse. A deputy to Chief Minister E Palaniswami now for four years, Panneerselvam is facing a tough battle in Bodinayakanur constituency near Theni
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DMK and Congress leaders keep insulting women, says Modi during rally in Madurai
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched yet another blistering attack on the DMK and Congress, charging that their leaders "keep insulting women", while pointing out that the NDA schemes are aimed at empowering women.
Addressing an election rally in Madurai seeking votes for NDA candidates including from ally AIADMK for the April 6 Assembly polls, he said late Chief Minister M G Ramachandran's vision for inclusive development and prosperous society "inspires us."
Lashing out at the DMK and Congress, Modi said they had no agenda to talk about and alleged that the two parties, facing polls as allies, will not guarantee either safety or dignity for the people while the law and order situation will "suffer" under them.
He charged that the DMK tried to make the peace loving Madurai a "mafia den" due to family issues earlier, apparently referring to the then squabble in the party's first family involving brothers MK Stalin and MK Alagiri. Modi said Madurai teaches about empowering 'nari shakti' (women power) and referred to the local deity Meenakshi Amman, and popular names associated with the region like Kannagi, Rani Mangammal and Velu Nachiyar.
He also said that many schemes of the NDA including the Ujjwala scheme were aimed at empowering women. "DMK and Congress have not understood this ethos. No wonder their leaders keep insulting women again and again," he said without naming anyone. (PTI)
The first song of Kangana Ranaut led Thalaivi, a film based on the life of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and actor J Jayalalithaa is out. Titled “Chali Chali”, the song captures the ‘golden era of Jayalalithaa’. The song has been sung by Saindhavi Prakash and its lyrics have been penned by Irshad Kamil.
“Chali Chali” chronicles Jayalalithaa’s journey in the 22 bet no depositn cinema. It has Kangana recreating many looks of the late actor, starting from her debut movie. She looks gorgeous as she replicates the charm that Jayalalithaa exuded on screen in her heydays.
Jayalalithaa acted in more than 120 films in several languages, including, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. She even acted in an English film titled, Epistle, which came out in 1961. She debuted in Kollywood with the 1965 film Vennira Aadai.
Tamil Nadu polls: BJP candidate Annamalai warns DMK cadres; Kanimozhi retorts, says dare you to touch them
The political mercury is rising in Tamil Nadu with former IPS officer K Annamalai, who is making his poll debut as BJP’s candidate for the Aravakurichi constituency, getting into a war of words with DMK MP Kanimozhi.
Annamalai had issued a warning to DMK cadres who plan to incite violence to which the DMK MP had dared him to touch a DMK cadre and said that no one can threaten them as she will always be standing for her party’s workers.
The tussle started when Annamalai, while campaigning at Aravakurichi, said, “Publish in papers that are biased towards your party that Annamalai will lose in this election. Why do you engage in personal attacks? Why do you attack Prime Minister Modi? What wrong has he done? Is he corrupt? I am proud to say I am a disciple of Prime Minister Modi. If you have a problem with it, then let it be. Will you defeat me in this election by engaging in malpractices? Do it. I am not the person to get frightened by these acts. I promise to the people of the constituency that whatever happens, Annamalai will stay here.”
Congress leader Karti Chidambaram on Friday dubbed Kamal Haasan a “super-NOTA” and said the actor-turned-politician’s Makkal Neethi Maiam (MNM) will not win a single seat in the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls as it is “not a sustainable political party”.
The Congress MP from Sivaganga also slammed the AIADMK-BJP alliance and said the people of Tamil Nadu do not want a government which has any “stain, scent or shadow” of the BJP as its “Hindi-Hindutva agenda irritates them”.
In an interview with PTI, Karti Chidambaram also claimed that the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-Congress alliance will win over 200 of the 234 Assembly seats in the single-phase April 6 polls.
Gurgaon now has more than 4,000 active cases – the current count of active cases in the district is 4,455, of which 4,160 are in home isolation. (Express Photo: Praveen Khanna)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched yet another blistering attack on the DMK and Congress, charging that their leaders "keep insulting women", while pointing out that the NDA schemes are aimed at empowering women.
Addressing an election rally in Madurai seeking votes for NDA candidates including from ally AIADMK for the April 6 Assembly polls, he said late Chief Minister M G Ramachandran's vision for inclusive development and prosperous society "inspires us."
Lashing out at the DMK and Congress, Modi said they had no agenda to talk about and alleged that the two parties, facing polls as allies, will not guarantee either safety or dignity for the people while the law and order situation will "suffer" under them.
He charged that the DMK tried to make the peace loving Madurai a "mafia den" due to family issues earlier, apparently referring to the then squabble in the party's first family involving brothers MK Stalin and MK Alagiri. Modi said Madurai teaches about empowering 'nari shakti' (women power) and referred to the local deity Meenakshi Amman, and popular names associated with the region like Kannagi, Rani Mangammal and Velu Nachiyar.
He also said that many schemes of the NDA including the Ujjwala scheme were aimed at empowering women. "DMK and Congress have not understood this ethos. No wonder their leaders keep insulting women again and again," he said without naming anyone. (PTI)
The first song of Kangana Ranaut led Thalaivi, a film based on the life of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and actor J Jayalalithaa is out. Titled “Chali Chali”, the song captures the ‘golden era of Jayalalithaa’. The song has been sung by Saindhavi Prakash and its lyrics have been penned by Irshad Kamil.
“Chali Chali” chronicles Jayalalithaa’s journey in the 22 bet no depositn cinema. It has Kangana recreating many looks of the late actor, starting from her debut movie. She looks gorgeous as she replicates the charm that Jayalalithaa exuded on screen in her heydays.
Jayalalithaa acted in more than 120 films in several languages, including, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. She even acted in an English film titled, Epistle, which came out in 1961. She debuted in Kollywood with the 1965 film Vennira Aadai.
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The political mercury is rising in Tamil Nadu with former IPS officer K Annamalai, who is making his poll debut as BJP’s candidate for the Aravakurichi constituency, getting into a war of words with DMK MP Kanimozhi.
Annamalai had issued a warning to DMK cadres who plan to incite violence to which the DMK MP had dared him to touch a DMK cadre and said that no one can threaten them as she will always be standing for her party’s workers.
The tussle started when Annamalai, while campaigning at Aravakurichi, said, “Publish in papers that are biased towards your party that Annamalai will lose in this election. Why do you engage in personal attacks? Why do you attack Prime Minister Modi? What wrong has he done? Is he corrupt? I am proud to say I am a disciple of Prime Minister Modi. If you have a problem with it, then let it be. Will you defeat me in this election by engaging in malpractices? Do it. I am not the person to get frightened by these acts. I promise to the people of the constituency that whatever happens, Annamalai will stay here.”
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Congress leader Karti Chidambaram on Friday dubbed Kamal Haasan a “super-NOTA” and said the actor-turned-politician’s Makkal Neethi Maiam (MNM) will not win a single seat in the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls as it is “not a sustainable political party”.
The Congress MP from Sivaganga also slammed the AIADMK-BJP alliance and said the people of Tamil Nadu do not want a government which has any “stain, scent or shadow” of the BJP as its “Hindi-Hindutva agenda irritates them”.
In an interview with PTI, Karti Chidambaram also claimed that the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-Congress alliance will win over 200 of the 234 Assembly seats in the single-phase April 6 polls.
Read more