CHENNAI: The State Assembly on Tuesday witnessed heated arguments between members of the DMDK and ministers. When R Manoharan (Tiruchi East) of the AIADMK said that DMDK chief Vijayakanth had no regard for his party MLAs as he had been going around their constituencies and meeting people, it was strongly objected to by the DMDK members. Housing Minister R Vaithilingam wanted to know if the DMDK president would attend the...
10:30 AM, May 09, 2012
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the amendment to the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968 dated December 1, 2000. A three-judge Bench, comprising Justice Altamas Kabir, Justice S S Nijjar and Justice J Chalameshwar, in a two-to-one majority, ruled that the amendments effected by the Election Commission (EC) to the Election Symbols Order is okay. While Justice Kabir and Justice Nijjar upheld the amendment,...
07:41 AM, Apr 19, 2012
Chennai: Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK on Wednesday retained the Sankarankoil (SC) Assembly constituency, with party nominee S Muthuselvi defeating DMK candidate Jawahar Suryakumar by a massive margin of 68,744 votes. Muthuslevi polled 94,964 votes against Suryakumar's 26,220. Vaiko-led MDMK's Sadan Thirumalai Kumar polled just 20,675 votes while DMDK's Muthukumar was pushed to the fourth spot with a meagre 12,144 votes. DMK, MDMK, DMDK and nine other candidates who were in the fray...
03:13 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Sankarankoil: Ruling AIADMK's S Muthuselvi was leading by 3583 votes after the first round of counting was over in the Sankarankoil (SC) assembly bypoll in Tamil Nadu this morning. DMK's Jawahar Suryakumar was in the second spot with 1917 votes followed by the MDMK and DMDK who polled 1184 and 798 votes, official sources said. The bypoll was necessitated due to the death of AIADMK minister C Karuppasamy in October...
10:50 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Chennai: Voting for the bypoll in Sankarankoil Assembly constituency of Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district came to an end Sunday with around 75 per cent of the voters casting their ballot. The electoral fate of 13 contestants including six independents is now sealed in electronic voting machines (EVM) in the 242 polling booths in the constituency. An Election Commission of India official said around 75 per cent of the 206,087 voters...
06:58 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Nagapattinam: CPI-M's Tamil Nadu unit on Friday said it would support the DMDK in the March 18 Assembly by-election to the Sankarankoil constituency. The party had decided to support the DMDK since the AIADMK government has not measured up to the expectations of the people, CPI-M state secretary G Ramakrishnan said after the third day deliberations of the party state conference in Nagapattinam. "Particularly, the steep hike in the price...
11:31 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Nagapattinam: CPI-M's Tamil Nadu unit on Friday said it would support the DMDK in the March 18 Assembly by-election to the Sankarankoil constituency. The party had decided to support the DMDK since the AIADMK government has not measured up to the expectations of the people, CPI-M state secretary G Ramakrishnan said after the third day deliberations of the party state conference in Nagapattinam. "Particularly, the steep hike in the price...
11:31 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Chennai: Actor-politican Vijayakant of DMDK has moved the Madras High Court challenging February 2 Tamil Nadu Assembly resolution suspending him from the House for ten days following a recommendation by the privileges committee. Justice S Rajeswaran, before whom the petition came up, posted it to March 2 to enable the Assembly Secretary to argue on the maintainability and the prayer for a stay of the suspension. The government pleader took...
07:54 AM, Feb 23, 2012
TIRUCHY: Apparently lashing out at former ally and DMDK leader Vijayakant, State Minister for School Education and Sports and Youth Welfare, N R Sivapathy asserted that the end for ungrateful persons was nearing. In a veiled reference to Vijayakant, in the presence of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, Minister Sivapathy said: it was Amma who lifted a few persons who were desolate like a single tree. However, those people had turned...
07:45 AM, Feb 14, 2012
Chennai: Taking strong exception to Kerala's reported "unilateral" action in ordering real time monitoring of Mullaperiyar Dam along with the Centre without Tamil Nadu's consent, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday slammed it as a "blatant violation" of the principle of federalism and constitutional framework. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she referred to reports of Kerala deciding "unilaterally" to install real time monitoring system for water build up,...
12:48 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Chennai: Maintaining that due procedure was followed in suspension of opposition leader Vijayakanth of DMDK from the House, Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker D Jayakumar on Wednesday slammed DMK President M Karunanidhi for charging that the action showed ruling AIADMK's "anti-democratic rule." The action of Vijayakanth, making some gestures at the ruling benches in the course of a heated exchange with Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in the House last week, was...
05:21 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Former IPL chief Lalit Modi has lashed out at the BCCI for its running of the lucrative Twenty20 league. ...
10:10 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Chennai: A week after a fiery exchange of words between Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and Leader of Opposition Vijayakanth in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, around 1,000 DMDK functionaries and workers, including the actor-politician's close friend Ibrahim Rowther joined the ruling AIADMK on Tuesday. Among the other notables who joined the Jayalalithaa-led party include trade unionist K Velmurugan, who unsuccessfully contested the Chennai Mayor post as the DMDK candidate in last...
07:04 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Chennai: In an unusual action, Leader of Opposition in Tamil Nadu Assembly Vijaykanth was on Thursday suspended for 10 days for breach of privilege during a heated exchange with Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. Speaker D Jayakumar's action against the actor-politician came a day after he and his DMDK MLAs were evicted en masse capping an acrimonious exchange with Jayalalithaa. As the House met for the day, Jayakumar announced Vijaykanth's suspension...
05:48 PM, Feb 02, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said she was ashamed of having allied with the DMDK for the 2011 Assembly elections. "As the people of Tamil Nadu had the conviction to get rid of the corruption-ridden DMK regime and vote back the AIADMK to power, the absence of the DMDK in the alliance would not have had made a difference to electoral prospects of AIADMK. The DMDK, on the other hand,...
11:28 AM, Feb 02, 2012
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