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India News: During Tamil Nadu's election season, politicians step in to name babies when parents can't decide. DMK's Udhayanidhi, AIADMK leaders, and even J Jayal

Warring uMkhonto weSizwe party factions in the Eastern Cape have taken their battle to the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC). A parallel structure, which has been opposing the interim provincial leadership, lodged an objection with the IEC over the party’s candidates on the provincial list, claiming the list was incorrect.

Enforcement Directorate conducts raids in Tamil Nadu as part of a money laundering investigation involving former DMK functionary Jaffer Sadiq. The raids target Sadiq, film director Ameer, and others, with connections to a large drug smuggling case and political funding.

PM Modi criticized Congress MPs for discussing Partition, slammed INDI alliance for threatening to separate South India, and emphasized stability over

A political analyst says Jacob Zuma's MK party will suffer severe consequences if the former president fails in his bid to challenge his exclusion in the upcoming elections.

DMK attaches a lot of prestige to the South Chennai seat. This time, it has fielded sitting MP Thamizhachi Thangapandian against BJPs Tamilisai Soundararajan, who the governor of Telangana and lieutenant governor of Puducherry. ADMKs candidate this time is again physician J Jayavardhan, the son of its former minister D Jayakumar.

Nakul Nath, who is contesting from Chhindwara, has declared the highest Rs 716 crore worth of assets in his election affidavit, according to poll rights body - the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).  

The secret lies in wealth. The wealth gap between candidates and eventual winners has grown sharply in the last four Lok Sabha elections, showing that polls are swinging more and more in favour of richer candidates who have the financial clout to contest and win

"Serious lawbreakers should not be lawmakers." These are the words of the Electoral Commission of SA's (IEC) counsel Adv Tembeka Ngcukaitobi in the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party's appeal against the commission's decision to bar Jacob Zuma from being one of its candidates to parliament.

The secret lies in wealth. The wealth gap between candidates and eventual winners has grown sharply in the last four Lok Sabha elections, showing that polls are swinging more and more in favour of richer candidates who have the financial clout to contest and win