Can Stalin Repeat 2019 Lok Sabha Result In 2024?

Stalin still enjoys a lot of sympathy and empathy as someone wishing well for the state, but not full-throated support as in 2019 and 2021, notes N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra......

How Women Change The Political Game

More than ever before, women voters can make or mar a political party's electoral fortunes. IMAGE: Women voters queue to cast their votes for the Telangana assembly elections, November 30, 2023.......

No anti-BJP Opposition front without Congress, says SP ally

The Rashtriya Lok Dal, an ally of the Samajwadi Party, has batted for a united opposition for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and said that without the Congress no front can be effective in countering the......

An Assembly Bypoll Like None Other

Neither the ruling DMK nor the fractured AIADMK Opposition anticipated that an assembly by-election would so put them both to test, observes N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and......

Borrowing limit raised, but states remain cautious

Going by the strict criteria set, only Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana qualify for such extra borrowing, as of now.......

Tamil Nadu all set to build India's first defence corridor

In less than two months since the announcement in March, the state has mobilised an armada of small and medium enterprises keen on making components for large equipment manufacturers. Of the two......

Xerxes Desai: The man behind Titan's success

In the '80s after Xerxes Desai, moved to Bengaluru and spent the initial days on building Titan from a factory in Hosur. Xerxes Desai, who built Titan into the country's largest watch company,......

Not just rich farmers, even agri cos with Rs 215 cr profit pay no tax

A large number of rich farmers, who earn more than salaried employees in the cities, get away with paying no tax at all in view of the government’s lack of will to consider an agricultural......