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The Election Commission said a meeting with protesting opposition MPs outside its premises could not be accepted, offering instead to receive their memorandum through its senior-most officer on duty after an eight-hour dharna in New Delhi.
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Demonstrations in Delhi and Mumbai, an NSUI symbolic protest, and a planned Rajouri march have turned a paperwork exercise into a fight over who gets to vote.
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Unscheduled outages and low voltage have pushed residents and small industries onto the streets, and the opposition says the TVK government is blaming the wind instead of fixing the grid.
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Around 300 INDIA bloc MPs marched from Parliament to the Election Commission on Tuesday demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign over the SIR voter-roll revision; leaders were briefly detained.
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Madurantakam recorded 83.86% polling and Dharapuram 78.53% by 5.30 pm in Tuesday's by-elections, the first electoral test for the TVK government. Counting is on October 9.
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Around 4,000 nurses of the TN Intermediate Health Workers' Association began a hunger strike in Chennai on October 5, demanding ₹45,000 monthly salary, equal pay and permanent jobs. Their counsel alleges five leaders invited to the Secretariat for talks were arrested instead.
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Justice Govindarajan Thilakavadi of the Madras High Court on October 5 allowed the DMK's plea to sue TVK ministers Aadhav Arjuna and CTR Nirmal Kumar, plus the TVK IT wing, Google, Meta and X, over allegedly defamatory statements linking the party to the POCSO case against granite baron Veeramani.
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AMMK chief TTV Dhinakaran called the TVK government 'a curse for Tamil Nadu', like the El Nino phenomenon. Campaigning in Dharapuram, he alleged CM Vijay lured 25 AIADMK MLAs with promises, held him responsible for the by-elections, and demanded ECI action against MLAs who resign after election.
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Opinion: five months after the general election, two MLAs resigned, joined the ruling TVK, and were renominated on its whistle symbol. Dhinakaran wants the ECI to punish serial resigners — right about the symptom. The disease: a seat treated as private property — traded and re-auctioned at will.
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As polling continued in Dharapuram and Madurantakam on Tuesday, TVK candidate P Sathyabama alleged a video about her had been distorted, while AIADMK's Banumathi accused the ruling camp of distributing money and gifts and cited a viral video claiming Rs 35 crore was spent in the seat.
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Dozens of opposition lawmakers marched from Parliament to the Election Commission headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over a voter-list revision they say strips eligible voters of their rights. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case.
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A state highways signboard near Sathankulam carried place names in Tamil, Hindi and English, in violation of Tamil Nadu's two-language policy. Two engineers were suspended. The episode says less about the painters and more about a ruling party with no ideological roots to anchor it.
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Polling is underway in the Madurantakam and Dharapuram bypolls, the first electoral test for the TVK government since April 23. Brisk early voting was reported as defector MLAs Maragatham Kumaravel and P Sathyabama gamble voters will forgive the horse-trading that triggered the contests.
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From the 'save democracy' march on the Election Commission to Ladakh's anniversary of unanswered grief, India is witnessing a season of mutinies against unaccountable power. The street has become the one parliament the powerful cannot adjourn.
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Five months after C. Joseph Vijay took office, analysts say he has mastered welfare branding but stumbles on governance basics: a withdrawn RTI exemption, power cuts embarrassing his own ministers, rookie ministers courting controversy, and law and order as the biggest test.
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Opinion: five years after an SUV linked to a Union minister's son mowed down farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri, the trial cannot even find a competent prosecutor - while in Punjab the CM's aide accused of running a posting racket sat protected for months
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On the fifth anniversary of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri killings, farmer unions held candle marches demanding justice. On September 22 the Supreme Court asked Uttar Pradesh to respond to a plea for a more experienced public prosecutor and sought a sealed-cover report on the trial's handling.
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One Punjab MLA wept on camera about empty classrooms and was suspended. One CM's aide allegedly ran a transfer-posting racket and is defended. Power attacks truth-tellers and shelters fixers.
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AAP has suspended Maur MLA Sukhveer Singh Maiserkhana, the only Punjab legislator with children in government schools, after his emotional Facebook Live exposed acute teacher shortages in his constituency's schools.
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Punjab will urgently approach the Supreme Court against the High Court order directing the CBI to probe ED allegations that CM Bhagwant Mann's OSD ran a transfer-posting and tender racket, with a report due in two months.
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Polling reached 35.55% in Madurantakam and 37.28% in Dharapuram by 11 am, but a halted booth in Dharapuram and EVM glitches in Madurantakam disrupted the TVK government's first electoral test, with counting on October 9.
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First the sanitation workers, then the nurses: the TVK government's answer to Tamil Nadu's striking workers has been the police van. A party that promised change is governing with the oldest trick in the book, and the workers it arrests will remember.
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The Madurantakam and Dharapuram bypolls exist for one reason: two legislators resigned, crossed to the ruling party, and were renominated from the seats they vacated. Defection is no longer a scandal in Tamil Nadu politics. It is a business model.
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Voters in Madurantakam and Dharapuram cast ballots on Tuesday in bypolls doubling as the first electoral test of Vijay's TVK government. The contests, forced by two MLA defections, were fought amid horse-trading charges and a heavy watch on cash. Counting on October 9.
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OPINION: When 41 people died in Karur, a probe team was formed within hours, before the court order even arrived. A month after the High Court ordered an SIT into the kidney racket, it has not begun. Justice is being rationed by who the victims are.
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AIADMK's Edappadi Palaniswami on Monday accused the state government of 'blatant double standards', lightning speed on the Karur stampede probe, but no start a month after the court ordered an SIT into Namakkal's kidney racket. Health Minister Ma Subramanian denies inaction.
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The INDIA bloc's march to the Election Commission is not theatre but a symptom: when a constitutional umpire cannot answer who changed Form 6, citizens stop trusting the scoreboard. Institutions rot when accountability dies, and the street becomes the last court.
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Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan agreed on October 5 to immediately implement their August mutual-defence pact and rapidly deploy forces to the Kingdom, as Houthi attacks on Saudi territory escalate and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government launches a major counteroffensive.
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Rahul Gandhi said it was 'established beyond doubt' that CEC Gyanesh Kumar changed voter-registration Form 6 illegally and unilaterally, after the Chief Justice of India clarified the Supreme Court never approved any modified form. The poll panel issued a point-by-point rebuttal.
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All INDIA bloc MPs marched to the Election Commission's Delhi headquarters on October 6, demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar's removal over alleged voter-list manipulation. The Congress said it would reach out to the DMK and AAP to join; district-level marches continue till October 8.
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Stalin called Vijay a 'Reels CM' who treats governance like a shooting spot. The mockery is cheap — but the charge beneath it has receipts: three months of falling GST revenue, rising prices, and a four-month-old government whose first instinct was to shield police files from RTI.
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The US Justice Department has filed denaturalization actions against 40 naturalized citizens — its largest single-period filing. With 88 cases since January 2025 and 250 planned this year, critics warn a rarely used tool is becoming a political weapon.
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Polling is under way in six Assembly seats across Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry. In Madurantakam and Dharapuram it is a prestige battle for Vijay's four-month-old TVK — with Stalin's 'Reels CM' jibe and TTV Dhinakaran's 'curse' charge setting the tone. Counting on October 9.
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Chennai police have arrested three of R. Veeramani's drivers on abetment charges and searched their residences, days after the granite baron was detained under the Goondas Act. Five cases now stand against the 84-year-old — including abetment of a minor's 2004 suicide.
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Former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon told the New York City Council that AI companies do not know how to stop their models developing goals of their own, calling the industry 'extremely reckless' — and warning that 'we don't understand its drives'.
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A mother complained in 2004 and the police buried it. Twenty-two years later, a WhatsApp message unearthed what money and power had kept filed away. The Veeramani case is not a failure of the system — it is the system, working as designed.
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On bypoll eve, Vijay warned the DMK not to 'attack' women in his circle, while DMK ministers face a Rs 1-crore defamation suit. Both camps have discovered women's dignity — as a campaign weapon. Periyar would have asked a harder question: where were you when the cameras were off?
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