Chennai: Congress severed its ties with DMK and joined hands with TVK on Wednesday, marking the widest crack in INDIA bloc. AICC in-charge Girish Chodankar, Praveen Chakravarthy and TNCC chief K Selvaperunthagai, met TVK president Vijay and extended support of the party’s five MLAs to him. Chodankar said the Congress-TVK alliance will continue for the…
Chennai: DMK leaders flayed Congress for walking out of the alliance to support TVK, while functionaries of the national party called for restraint while criticising them. DMK treasurer T R Baalu accused Congress of “betraying” the mandate of voters and abandoning a long-standing alliance during a politically difficult phase.In a statement, Baalu recalled DMK’s support…
CHENNAI: AIADMK led by Edappadi K Palaniswami was ready to extend unconditional support to TVK to help it form the govt, and discussions were underway between the two sides. However, after prolonged silence from the TVK camp since Wednesday noon, the party decided to withdraw the offer, multiple sources told TOI. AIADMK leaders also dismissed…
Chennai: VCK and DMDK appear to be indecisive on extending support to TVK to form govt.VCK which had convened a meeting of its senior functionaries on Thursday to discuss TVK’s proposal has postponed the event to Friday. Senior VCK leaders said they have received official communication from TVK seeking support to form the govt, with…
Chennai: After a video showing Vijay Dhamu, a TVK candidate elected from Royapuram, cutting a cake with a machete during a public celebration went viral on social media, a complaint was filed on Wednesday with the Chennai Police Commissioner’s office seeking legal action. The complaint was submitted by G G Siva, 36, of Pulianthope.In his…
Chennai: YouTuber Savukku Shankar has moved Madras High Court seeking bail in connection with an attempt-to-murder case registered against him while he was imprisoned in Puzhal central prison.Admitting the plea, Justice L Victoria Gowri directed the prosecution to file their reply on May 7 and adjourned the hearing. The court said the plea will be…
Chennai: Police arrested a 35-year-old man on Tuesday for sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl on April 23.The girl’s mother, an IT professional, filed a complaint after she learnt about the incident from her daughter on Sunday. The incident occurred when the child was visiting her grandmother’s house for the summer holidays. She was playing when…
Chennai: Software service company Freshworks will lay off around 500 employees, or roughly 11% of its workforce, citing plans to ramp up investments in AI-focused product development and related business areas.It was part of its restructuring plan to streamline efforts and product development process and increase AI and automation usage across the business, the Nasdaq-listed…
Chennai: Blunav, an airport operations technology company, has raised $1 million in seed funding from Piper Serica.It is building systems from flight operations and gate and bay allocations to passenger systems and commercial activities into a platform and has been deployed at Chennai International Airport, under the Airports Authority of India (AAI)’s Startup India initiative.Blunav…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu is set to witness its youngest Assembly in nearly two decades, with the median age of MLAs dropping from 56 in 2021 to 51 now, driven largely by younger crop of legislators from TVK.Of the party’s 107 MLAs, the median age stands at 47, much lower than DMK’s 57 and AIADMK’s 59….
