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Following their election defeat, both DMK and AIADMK are experiencing internal unrest. AIADMK veteran S Semmalai resigned citing 'dictatorial approach' by EPS, while DMK's P T R Palanivel Thiagarajan announced a temporary break from politics. EPS also accused TVK of horse trading, as rebel AIADMK MLAs push for leadership changes.

TVK functionary Aadhav Arjuna had alleged that the DMK family threatened actor Rajinikanth when he tried to enter politics. Arjuna said he was not criticising Rajinikanth but added that Vijay had the courage to withstand such pressure. TVK organised protests at district headquarters across Tamil Nadu on Thursday, accusing the state government of failing to maintain law and order.

he Madras high court has quashed a criminal defamation complaint registered against DMK minister K N Nehru in 2020 by the then AIADMK government for his alleged defamatory speech against the then minister S P Velumani.

Executive officer N Balasubramani of Vellalore town panchayat on Friday suspended the indirect election to elect the president and vice-president until further order.Vellalore town panchayat has 15 wards.

The Administrative Judge of high court Madurai bench, Justice T S Sivagnanam, inaugurated the 'justice clock' on the court premises here on Friday. Justice clock is an LED display board which displays information such as the ranking of all the courts across the country based on the filing of cases, their pendency and disposal by the courts.

Five AIADMK MLAs of Coimbatore, including former minister S P Velumani, on Monday said there was “a tense and extraordinary situation” in Coimbatore akin to the one that prevailed during the communal riots that took place during the DMK regime in 1997 a few months ahead of the serial bomb

Wondering how the Tamil Nadu government, which has authority to grant parole to a life convict overriding the conditions in prison rules, can delegate the power to prison authorities, the Madras high court directed the state to explain why it forwarded the parole plea of A G Perairvalan to prison authorities. Perarivalan is one among seven people serving life term in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

The Madras high court on Monday asked the central government to ascertain as to whether Rajiv Gandhi assassination life convicts Nalini and her husband Sriharan alias Murugan could be permitted at least once to make a video call to the latter’s mother in Sri Lanka, mourning the death of her husband.

The Union ayush department on Thursday informed the Madras high court that so far the department has received only one sample of siddha drug with a ‘claim’ that it might act against Covid-19.