Author: Balasubramani Muniyandi

When News Today contacted Chief Electoral Officer Satyabrata Sahoo, he denied any change in the procedure of keeping the machines safe. “The EVMs will be kept in a safe room as per routine and will be given enough protection till the counting date,” he added.

“We conduct events focused on building young people across their physical, social, emotional and intellectual areas like personality development, emotional intelligence, soft skills training and creating job opportunities.”

While DMK president M K Stalin has been harping that his party would commence a probe into the reason behind the death of Jayalalithaa, now, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami alleged Karunanidhi was kept under ‘house arrest’ for two years and added that the AIADMK government will launch a probe into it.

Upgradation of Chitlapakkam into Municipality by combining it with Tambaram and nearby panchayats, restoring and preserving water bodies in the localities, permanent solution for the flooding in Chitlapakkam and Mudichur are some of the common points put forth by the residents.

Thiyagu, who rents out shamiana, flags, tables and chairs for political meetings, said mostly parties pay the amount that they actually finalise. However, he added that there are exceptions.

The political campaign has gained heat in the past few days and along with the Lok Sabha elections, the parties are also focusing on the Assembly by-elections.

To reach out to more people as part of their election campaign, the DMK Sriperumbudur IT wing has come up with a novel idea of sending stickers of their candidate T R Baalu through WhatsApp.

The Supreme Court’s directive to allot a common symbol to the candidates of T T V Dhinakaran’a AMMK can be termed as boon and bane to the party.

Lakhs and lakhs of people make use of these services on a daily basis. Now, as a rude shock to commuters, Southern Railway has cancelled a few trains from Tambaram without prior announcement.