Tamil Nadu CM Vijay will spend Children's Day on November 14 with schoolchildren in Ambasamudram, in Tirunelveli district. It is one of several stops in constituencies going to by-polls, after earlier visits to Viralimalai and Perundurai.
The day coincides with a state scheme to hand out 45-gram cakes to students across Tamil Nadu. Officials have checked the cakes' quality since October 26 and must flag any shortfalls right away.
The venue, participating schools and full schedule for the Ambasamudram event are yet to be announced.
BJP Tamil Nadu chief Nainar Nagendran says the state government is failing to stop toxic medical waste from Kerala being dumped and burnt on farmland in border districts.
He cited repeated dumping in Tenkasi, where bottles labelled as sold only in Kerala were found in the waste, and blamed weak checks at border checkposts.
He has urged Chief Minister Vijay to raise the issue with Kerala's chief minister and called for tighter surveillance, seizure of illegally transporting vehicles and cases under the Goondas Act.
AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami says Tamil Nadu's TVK government will not do the state any good even if it completes five years in office. He made the remark in Edappadi on Wednesday.
He said most election promises remain unfulfilled and accused the government of failing on law and order, with murders, robberies and crimes against women rising. He also alleged rampant corruption across departments.
He cited 467 factories that had shut in four months over alleged regulatory violations, affecting nearly 1.5 lakh workers.
DMK chief M.K. Stalin has asked President Droupadi Murmu to refer a complaint against CEC Gyanesh Kumar to Parliament. It concerns 97.37 lakh voters removed from Tamil Nadu's rolls in the 2025 SIR.
He pointed to two fellow commissioners who said they were kept out of certain decisions. He claimed the deletions in Tamil Nadu and elsewhere skewed results in several seats.
He wants the President to seek the PM's input, bar Kumar from using the Commission's powers meanwhile, and restore pre-SIR rolls for Tamil Nadu. He also wants the SIR cancelled in all states.
Tamil Nadu BJP chief Nainar Nagendran told reporters in Tiruchirappalli on Monday that some people are running a corruption scheme through books written and sold using AI, and he wants the TVK government under Chief Minister Joseph Vijay to investigate.
The claims relate to the Periyar Intellectual World row. Recent titles appear under made-up names like Trisha and Vijay, he said.
He also criticised law and order, citing 15 murders on Diwali alone. He asked the Chief Minister to explain the killing of a Special Sub-Inspector in Theni.
The Madras High Court has upheld a 2008 state housing allotment of an 11,854 sq ft plot in Chennai's Anna Nagar Western Extension to film star C. Joseph Vijay, now Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister.
The case was filed in 2009 by Shenoy Nagar resident R. Karthikeyan, whose late father had owned large parts of Padi village. In 1969, the state took 2.37 acres from his father there for a Housing Board scheme in Korattur.
An election petition alleging the built-up property was sold is still awaiting a verdict.
Tamil Nadu has approved ₹198 crore to pay honorariums to the officials and staff who ran the 2026 Assembly election across all 234 constituencies.
District election officers, returning officers and assistant returning officers will each get one month's basic pay, up to ₹45,000. Election wing staff in district and civic body offices get the same formula, capped at ₹30,000.
Flying squads, video surveillance teams and other poll-duty staff fall under the same arrangement, and payments will be routed through the district election officers.
Tamil Nadu CM C Joseph Vijay has asked PM Narendra Modi to hold back any clearance for Karnataka's proposed Mekedatu dam on the Cauvery until co-basin states consent.
His November 6 letter flags a site visit by Union officials to the proposed location and warns that the 67.16 TMC reservoir could cut water flows and monthly deliveries to Tamil Nadu.
He also accuses Karnataka of not releasing Tamil Nadu's due share of water in the 2026-27 deficit year, and wants the Centre to defer action tied to the visit.
DMK president M.K. Stalin, a former Tamil Nadu chief minister, has accused CM C Joseph Vijay of staging raids for publicity before the Tiruchirappalli East by-election. He said the state has become unsafe for women, children and the elderly.
DVAC officials questioned former minister K.N. Nehru, a DMK principal secretary, for over an hour at his Tiruchirappalli home, with more than 200 party workers gathering outside.
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