Top purchaser of electoral bonds Future Gaming and Hotel Services donated Rs 509 crore to Tamil Nadu’s ruling party DMK through the now-scrapped payment mode, the Election Commission’s (EC) data showed on Sunday. The donations given by Future Gaming, whose owner, ”lottery king” Santiago Martin, has been under the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) scanner, accounted for … Read more
New Delhi: Future Gaming and Hotel Services donated Rs 509 crore to the DMK through electoral bonds since 2019-20, with Megha Engineering & Infrastructures contributing another Rs 40 crore to Tamil Nadu’s ruling party, showed data released by the Election Commission of India on Sunday. The latest information is based on disclosures of donors’ names … Read more
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested former DMK functionary Jaffer Sadiq in Delhi on Saturday, in connection with a ₹2,000 crore international drugs trafficking case. The central agency has termed Sadiq the “mastermind and kingpin” of the illicit network spread across India, Australia and New Zealand. Sadiq, a producer of Tamil films, was recently expelled … Read more
Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK on Friday finalised seat-sharing agreements with allies VCK and MDMK, repeating its 2019 deal. However, the party, which is a part of the Opposition INDIA bloc, is yet to clinch a pact with Congress. MDMK was allocated one seat that will be announced later, said party founder Vaiko. DMK had allotted … Read more
CHENNAI: The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu on Friday allotted one seat to ally MDMK for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. MDMK founder Vaiko told reporters that while the seat-sharing deal has been clinched, the lone constituency from where his party would contest will be announced later. The seat-sharing deal was finalised and signed by … Read more
Last Updated: March 06, 2024, 15:21 IST Tamil Nadu LoP Edappadi K Palaniswami. (File Image: PTI) Tagging CM MK Stalin in a post on X, Palaniswami alleged that “welfare schemes have been stopped, (and) law and order is in tatters” Tamil Nadu’s Leader of Opposition Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday criticised the newly launched DMK … Read more
Thoothukudi: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader and Fisheries Minister Anitha Radhakrishnan accepted the mistake on Thursday after the Tamil Nadu government was left red-faced after an advertisement for a new Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) that featured a rocket with the flag of China. Radhakrishnan said that a small mistake was made in the newspaper … Read more
Last Updated: February 24, 2024, 21:08 IST Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin speaks during the TN Assembly session, in Chennai. (PTI file photo) Both IUML and KMDK have been allotted the same seats they were given in the 2019 LS polls The Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK, a key constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, … Read more
Tamil Nadu Budget 2024-25: Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thenarassu on Monday presented the state’s budget for the fiscal year 2024-2025 in the TN Assembly. The budget outlines a comprehensive plan encompassing various sectors, ranging from education and infrastructure to social welfare and cultural preservation. In a move to benefit the transgender community, the college … Read more
DMK agrees to give 7 seats to Congress in TN for Lok Sabha polls. Chennai: DMK has agreed to give seven Lok Sabha seats to Congress instead of 16 seats, which the grand-old party had demanded. The Congress had contested on nine seats in the 2019 general elections by being an alliance partner in the … Read more
