
Chennai: Five months after Kanimozhi was arrested as an accused in the 2G scam, will she finally get bail? That's the question the Special CBI court will answer on Thursday as it delivers its order on the bail pleas of DMK Rajya Sabha MP and DMK President M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi along with four other 2G accused. Kanimozhi's last statement before she was sent to judicial custody in the 2G...

06:56 AM, Nov 03, 2011

New Delhi: UPA chief Sonia Gandhi on Sunday reached out to AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa and congratulated her on the Tamil Nadu election victory. Sonia Gandhi has also extended an invited to the soon-to-be new chief minister for tea in New Delhi. But sources said that it was only a customary courtesy call and that the Congress-DMK alliance is intact. The congratulatory phone call from Sonia Gandhi to Jayalalithaa has now...

10:03 AM, May 15, 2011

Chennai: Over 75 per cent electorate came out to cast their votes on Wednesday as Tamil Nadu saw a peaceful election. After a brief but intense election campaign, Tamil Nadu queued up to deliver its verdict with the famous and the not so famous reached the polling booths. Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi, the two faces of Dravidian politics, came out to vote early. "Whether it is a coalition or single party...

08:05 PM, Apr 13, 2011

Srirangam/Tiruvarur: The DMK-AIADMK rivalry has determined Tamil Nadu politics for over two decades. And both J Jayalalithaa and M Karunanidhi filed their nominations on the same day - the AIADMK chief from Srirangam, and the DMK patriarch from Thiruvarur. Moreover, the duo has sparked off a battle of freebies. In her election manifesto on Thursday, Jayalalithaa matched the DMK promise for promise. The DMK, in its manifesto, has promised free...

09:09 PM, Mar 24, 2011

Chennai: The DMK has annouced that it will withdrawn from the UPA government after seat sharing talks with the Congress hit a roadblock. Congress wanted 63 seats of it's choice, DMK said it will give 60 seats and dicuss the choices. Neither side agreed and DMK has now walked out. DMK leader TKS Elangovan said, "We feel that congresss is putting undue pressure on us, it seems Congress does not...

10:44 PM, Mar 05, 2011

CNN-IBN reaches out to the passengers to know what they expect from Mamata Banerjee. ...

10:31 AM, Feb 25, 2011

Mamata Banerjee is also expected to not increase passenger fare ahead of assembly elections in West Benagal. ...

09:45 AM, Feb 25, 2011

New Delhi: Former telecom minister A Raja was on Monday summoned by the CBI for questioning, in the 2G spectrum scam. With the CBI zeroing in on Raja there was speculation that he was checking into a hospital in Chennai. Raja stepped out to clarify. He said, "Whatever be the legal procedure, as a lawyer, as a minister, I will extend full cooperation to the investigation agency. I have faith...

09:42 PM, Dec 20, 2010

New Delhi: Following the 2G probe, the CBI on Wednesday raided 34 places including the residence and office of lobbyist Nira Radia, former TRAI Chairman Pradip Baijal and a Chennai NGO with which DMK MP Kanimozhi is linked. Father Jegath Gaspar Raj who runs Tamil Maiyam, the NGO, was also raided. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi is also on the board of directors of Tamil Maiyam. CBI sources...

08:08 AM, Dec 15, 2010

New Delhi: Former chief justice of India KG Balakrishnan on Wednesday denied getting any letter from the Madras High Court judge R Reghupathy on former telecom minister A Raja's reported attempts to influence him in a case. Balakrishnan issued the clarification soon after Reghupathy went public, saying he had written to the then Madras High Court chief justice HL Gokhale asking the letter to be forwarded to the then CJI....

05:16 PM, Dec 08, 2010

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12:21 AM, Jun 25, 2009

For the first time that the issue has dominated an election campaign in TN. ...

02:43 AM, May 12, 2009

DMK, AIDMK and Congress have tried to woo the actor-politician as ally. ...

12:58 PM, Mar 23, 2009

HC Lawyers said remarks in lawyer-police clashes probe uncalled for. ...

02:55 AM, Mar 07, 2009

The politicisation of the issue led to flaring of people's emotions. ...

11:22 AM, Feb 11, 2009