Voters in Chennai on April 23rd face a challenging election day with IMD predicting sweltering heat and high humidity. CHENNAI: People stepping out to cast their vote on April 23 should be prepared to wait in long queues under sweltering conditions as IMD has warned that hot and humid weather may persist.Daytime temperatures may touch…
Anna Nagar’s upcoming election features a multi-cornered contest, moving beyond its Dravidian stronghold history. There’s only one more day to go for polling, and all anyone can talk about in Anna Nagar, during their morning walks around Tower Park or over tumblers of tea at Shenoy Nagar, are the constituency’s candidates and their chances.Once anchored…
Stalin concluded his campaign in Kolathur after three days of canvassing votes across the city Chief minister M K Stalin concluded his 20-day-long campaign for the Assembly election with a promise—that his first signature after becoming chief minister for the second term would be to launch the scheme to give ₹8,000 coupon to women.“My first…
Sholinganallur poll battle hinges on civic issues, new voter surge In TN’s largest constituency, Sholinganallur, its fast-expanding IT corridor and older village pockets are voting with one demand — solutions for civic woes. And, they are not shy to explore new options either.The seat has added nearly 1.7 lakh voters since 2011, as combined vote…
KRISHNAGIRI: At least three men died and one was seriously injured after a car collided head-on with a private Omni bus near the Sanamavu forest area, close to Hosur, in the early hours of Wednesday.They were travelling home to cast their votes in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, scheduled for Thursday.The deceased have been identified…
As election campaigns conclude, political parties in Chennai shift focus to hyper-local, booth-level operations. CHENNAI: As noisy campaigns and long-winding rallies came to end, the nuts and bolts of top parties have gone hyper local since 6pm on Tuesday. Between Tuesday evening till the conclusion of the polling, much of the action takes place at…
Clash of titans as leaders mix attacks, emotion and symbolism For more than a month, TN witnessed a multi-pronged campaign war. Here are the warriors. Now, you choose the winnersM K StalinKing and general rolled into one, CM M K Stalin looks more like an attacker than a defender. For the DMK chief, the battle…
AI ‘speech-o-meter’ ranks TN 2026 leaders on campaign effectiveness Amid the campaign noise, TOI used a large language model (LLM) with a fixed prompt to analyse speeches by three key leaders from April 14–20 in the TN 2026 election, processing a 50,000+ word corpus.The model broke the text into “tokens” (words) and detected repeated phrases.A…
Chennai: Madras high court on Tuesday closed a plea moved by an AIADMK advocate alleging distribution of 8,000 coupons by DMK cadres in several constituencies. The court closed the plea after the ECI said action had been initiated wherever complaints were received regarding distribution of the coupons and that they were seized.The first bench of…
Chennai: A Y-shaped electric pole may blur into two leaves, a whistle may look like a road-roller, and a farmer may just end up ploughing into another party’s votebank. Voters are likely to face a baffling array of similar-looking party symbols on electronic voting machines, especially in constituencies such as Karur with more than 70…
