With a special court in Delhi discharging Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in the alleged liquor excise policy case even before a trial could begin, the AAP has been handed a much-needed political breather, especially in Punjab, the only state where the party currently…
A three-time stand-in Chief Minister who once refused to sit in Jayalalithaa’s chair and later lost his party, position, and much of his political capital after revolting against the AIADMK leadership, O Panneerselvam resurfaced on Friday, making an unlikely embrace. At the DMK headquarters of Anna Arivalayam in Chennai, Panneerselvam, OPS to friends and rivals,…
The clean chit for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia by a Delhi court in the politically charged excise policy case on Friday is the latest legal reprieve for Opposition leaders in the country, providing a fresh impetus to the Opposition’s narrative that the BJP government has selectively and deliberately targeted…
With a Delhi court exonerating her in the alleged liquor policy case, former Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K Kavitha now finds herself at a political crossroads yet again, months ahead of the launch of her new party. “Satyameva Jayate,” Kavitha said shortly after the order, thanking the judiciary “for seeing through the web of…
3 min readNew DelhiFeb 27, 2026 01:38 PM IST First published on: Feb 27, 2026 at 01:38 PM IST On September 17, 2024, anti-corruption crusader-turned-Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal triggered shock waves by announcing his resignation from the post. With the Delhi elections a few months away, the move was billed as an “agnipariksha (trial…
1 min readChennaiFeb 27, 2026 08:55 AM IST In a dramatic political turn, O Panneerselvam, the former Chief Minister and AIADMK leader, is most likely to join the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam within the next hour, senior sources in both camps said on Friday morning. Panneerselvam is expected to resign from his MLA post around 9…
R Nallakannu, a freedom fighter and one of the tallest leaders of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in Tamil Nadu, whose life spanned the arc of India’s Independence struggle and the turbulent decades that followed, died in Chennai Wednesday. He was a centenarian. He had been ailing for some time and was undergoing treatment…
Barely a few months before the high-stakes Kerala Assembly elections, Chief Minister and CPI(M) stalwart Pinarayi Vijayan sat down with Malayalam superstar Mohanlal, for a freewheeling interview, which was telecast and streamed Thursday evening. In the course of his long conversation with Mohanlal, one of the most influential cultural icons, the two-time CM touched upon a…
For nearly three decades, she stood just outside the frame. When Jayalalithaa ruled Tamil Nadu, V K Sasikala managed the invisible levers of power: alliance talks, candidate lists, crisis control, and even household work at the AIADMK chief’s Poes Garden residence. Sasikala never took the stage, or rather did not need to. However, on Tuesday,…
(As Tamil Nadu gears up for the Assembly polls, every Thursday, Arun Janardhanan decodes the electoral trends, political signals, and campaign moves shaping the contest.) In Tamil Nadu, welfare politics is rarely a debate over whether the state should spend. It is a contest over how, on whom, and – most importantly – who gets…