Chennai is on high alert with 23,000 state police and 31 CAPF companies deployed to ensure peaceful elections. CHENNAI: At least 23,000 state police personnel besides 31 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) have been deployed at polling stations to maintain law and order and prevent poll-related offences in the city.Commissioner Abin Dinesh Modak…
Glamour is sweeping poll arenas, with more politicians turning to cosmetic procedures such as body contouring, hair transplants and Botox or Stunnox for wrinkle-free faces. CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu election may be a tight contest, but you are unlikely to spot a single worry line on party leaders’ foreheads. It has less to do with…
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…
