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While the ruling TVK has won both the constituencies — Madurantakam and Dharapuram — in the recent byelections, the question today is whether Tamil Nadu will shift to a bipolar political landscape, an arrangement it has been familiar with

He said the TVK-led government had taken the right step by approaching the Supreme Court to secure the State’s share of Cauvery water

The bypolls in the two constituencies were necessitated after Maragatham Kumaravel and P. Sathyabama, who had won the Madurantakam and Dharapuram seats, respectively, as AIADMK candidates in the 2026 Assembly elections, resigned as MLAs and joined the ruling TVK

Tamil Nadu Home Secretary K. Manivasan has been replaced by A. Karthik, Chairman and Managing Director of the Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation (TANSIDCO).

Karnataka had argued that it was reeling under serious hydrological distress which was marked by 54% deficit in cumulative inflows to its four reservoirs in the Cauvery basin

In all, seven constituencies are without MLAs in Tamil Nadu. But only Madurantakam and Dharapuram will go to the polls on October 6, 2026

An order said employees working in Chengalpattu, Tiruppur and neighbouring districts, but registered as voters in the Madurantakam and Dharapuram constituencies, should also be given a paid holiday.

Tamil Nadu, Assam, Puducherry, West Bengal and Assam are heading for bypolls. Here’s all you need to know.

The bypolls set to take place on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) will be held in five Assembly constituencies in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry, as well as in one Lok Sabha seat in Assam; the votes will be counted on Friday

The party wants the SIT to summon the CM and the Ministers to find out if they had any materials to prove it had shielded the prime accused during its regime

Approximately 45,72,058 cubic feet of lake-bed sand was alleged to have been transported from about 8 acres of the waterbody, resulting in an estimated loss of ₹8.22 crore to the T.N. exchequer

A senior PMK leader says the ‘attitude’ of the AIADMK leadership continues to be a sore point hampering a ‘natural alliance’

Govt. issued an order to exempt information on subjects such as communal and caste clashes; all matters relating to NSA detentions, reports into deaths in police custody, agitations by students, farmers from ambit of the RTI Act

Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan direct the central agency to file its counter affidavit to his plea to quash PMLA proceedings

Status report submitted by amicus curiae before Supreme Court reveals that backlog before Keralam’s district commissions has surged by nearly 76% since December 2023, and is nearly twice that of Karnataka and more than six times that of Tamil Nadu

Accusing the Karnataka government and Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar of failing to protect the interests of the State with respect to the Cauvery, Deputy Leader of the Opposition Arvind Bellad remarked that the State should learn from Tamil Nadu on protecting its share of water as well as its farmers during distress

What really happened during Emergency in Tamil Nadu?

Barring this Bill, the Governor has accorded assent to the 12 other Bills passed by the Assembly recently

‘Chennai should not alienate Delhi, and vice versa, too,’ Justice Nagarathna, heading a Bench comprising Justice A.G. Masih, addressed both governments

Mr. Nagenthran said transforming a religious icon revered and worshipped by millions of people for the purpose of promoting an individual and for political publicity demeaned spiritual sentiments of the people.

AMMK leader T.T.V. Dhinakaran announced support for AIADMK candidates in the Madurantakam and Dharapuram byelections

Cases registered at the police stations in Saidapet, North Beach and Kallakurichi

On reports that headmasters of government and government-aided schools having been asked to bear the expenses of the launch of expansion of the Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Breakfast Scheme on September 17, the AMMK leader urged the government to drop the move.  

Tamil Nadu Minister C.T.R. Nirmal Kumar accuses DMK of resorting to obscene language

According to a Tamil Nadu government website, the historic shrine was under the care of a monk up to the 10th century A.D.

“It is the Indian High Commission in London that is making all the arrangements for the travel, including security,” said the official, in response to the question of why Mr. Vijay had chosen to be away when Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was to be in Chennai on Sunday

Mr. Shanmugam said the fishing community living in the area, close to the identified location in Pattinapakkam, had been opposing the proposal to construct the new Secretariat there