Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has said that the shortage of petrol and diesel in the state capital would end by Tuesday evening. After chairing a high-level meeting, Jayalalithaa said three ships carrying 67,000 kilo litres of diesel and petrol from Kochi arrived at Chennai port this afternoon. Efforts were being made to distribute this stock to the bunks of Bharat Petroleum, Indian Oil Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum...
04:25 PM, May 29, 2012
Chennai: After Trinamool supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hit the street, DMK President M Karunanidhi, another key ally of UPA, would lead a protest demonstration in Chennai on May 30 against the recent petrol price hike. The 88-year-old party patriarch would lead DMK's state-wide demonstration by taking part in the protest to be held at Saidapet. The demonstration would also protest against the Tamil Nadu government for...
01:57 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has once again written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, demanding that central forces be deployed at the Mullaperiyar dam site. She said that she will deploy the state police at the controversial site if Centre doesn't help. She had written to the Prime Minister earlier in December asking the Centre to ensure that Kerala didn't stop officials from her state...
11:09 AM, May 27, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday accused the central government of adopting a callous approach to the kerosene needs of the poor in Tamil Nadu by reducing its allocation. In a letter to Singh, Jayalalithaa cited the reduced allocation of kerosene to Tamil Nadu to 39.429 kilo litre (KL) for April-June 2012 from 44,580 KL earlier. She said the poor in rural and urban areas depended on...
05:18 PM, May 25, 2012
Chennai: Strongly condemning the steep hike in petrol price, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday demanded its immediate roll back, warning that otherwise people's agony would spell the doom for the 'anti-people' UPA government soon. "The hike of Rs 7.50 will affect the poor and the middle class. This is a gift given to the people by the UPA coalition government on its completion of three years in office,"...
08:38 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday asked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to support APJ Abdul Kalam for the post of President instead of NCP leader PA Sangma whom she had already chosen. In a statement, Swamy said she should support Kalam for the post of president. "She should phone him up and persuade him to become her candidate. Sangma has lost all moral authority to be...
05:37 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: In the run-up to the upcoming Presidential poll, AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has lobbied for former Lok Sabha speaker PA Sangma's candidature. Jayalalithaa on Sunday spoke to the leaders of the NDA and the Left parties to garner support for PA Sangma's candidature. She spoke to the likes of LK Advani, Prakash Karat, AB Bardhan, Chandrababu Naidu, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Parkash Singh...
03:02 PM, May 20, 2012
Chennai: A day after backing former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma's candidature for the Presidency, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Friday asked all parties to "rise above political considerations," and support the tribal leader for the top job. "I now appeal to all political parties to rise above political considerations and support Sangma and ensure that he becomes the next President of India," she said in a statement in...
01:39 PM, May 18, 2012
CHENNAI: Reiterating that illegal sand mining in the State will be tackled firmly, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday said that during the previous AIADMK regime headed by her, the government had taken over the sand quarrying business to prevent illegal mining and to protect water resources. The government also took steps to make available sand at a reasonable cost while increasing the revenue of the State government. On the...
07:43 AM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: They are in themselves formidable power centres in India. And they are all women. Mayawati, J Jayalalithaa, Mamata Banerjee and Sheila Dikshit form the awesome female quartet who have not only defied the glass ceiling of India's politics marked by patriarchy and sycophancy, but have also proved to be larger-than-life figures within their parties. Despite their aura and popularity, all's not well in the powerful female quartet's camps....
04:19 PM, May 17, 2012
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11:57 PM, May 16, 2012
Chennai: A year after she stormed to power in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa still enjoys wide support in the state. But the number of critics is rising too. Reactions on one year of AIADMK rule varied as Jayalalithaa began her second year in office on Wednesday. It was on this day in 2011 that the actress-turned-politician took the oath of office -- for the third time since 1991....
03:58 PM, May 16, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said the 2G spectrum allotment scam case seemed to be getting diluted with the bail granted to former communications minister and the main accused A Raja. Queried about the bail granted to Raja, she told reporters in Chennai: "I am hearing about it from you only now. It definitely looks as though it is (2G case) getting diluted." Raja, lodged in...
01:21 AM, May 16, 2012
CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday indicated that the ball was in the Central governments court as far as the demand for setting up of a sub-committee of chief ministers to examine the provisions of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) is concerned.She was addressing the media with Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik after a 45-minute discussion with him after he called on her at her residence.When asked for...
09:11 AM, May 12, 2012
Chennai: Did the previous DMK-run State government rob the gods of their gold? That's what Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa suspects, going by State HR and CE Minister MSM Anandan's allegations in the State Assembly on Wednesday. Participating in a discussion on the demands for grants for his department, Anandan alleged that the DMK regime had concentrated mostly on work which required the usage of gold owned by various temples in...
01:52 PM, May 10, 2012
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