Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi has called a top-level meeting on Friday to decide on it's alliance with the Congress. He's known to be upset with the fact that his daughter Kanimozhi didn't get bail in the 2G spectrum case. As his patience runs out, the frustrated DMK patriarch, in his first direct attack on the Congress party since the 2G taint touched his doorstep, squarely blamed the Congress for ...
08:31 AM, Jun 10, 2011
New Delhi: Upset with his daughter Kanimozhi being denied bail in the 2G scam, DMK chief MK Karunanidhi has called for an emergency meeting of the party's top brass in Chennai on Friday. Karunanidhi's earlier remark "bad friendship leads to trouble" is being interpreted as threat to the UPA. The DMK, which is a part of the UPA government at the Centre has 18 MPs in Lok Sabha. According to...
07:48 PM, Jun 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed the bail pleas of DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar in the 2G spectrum case. The court on May 30 reserved the order on the bail pleas of the 2G scam accused. Kanimozhi along with Sharad Kumar had moved the Delhi High Court challenging a trial court's order against the dismissal of their bail pleas on May 20....
11:25 AM, Jun 08, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is expected to pronounce its orders on the bail pleas of DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar on Wednesday. The Delhi High Court on May 30 reserved order on the bail plea of DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar, accused in the 2G scam. Kanimozhi along with Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar had moved the Delhi High Court...
08:56 AM, Jun 08, 2011
Tiruvarur: Reflecting further strains in his party's ties with Congress, DMK chief Karunanidhi has blamed the Centre for the arrest of his daughter Kanimozhi in the 2G spectrum case. "Kanimozhi is in Tihar jail, either it could be due to Centre's order or complacency," the DMK patriarch said in his first public meeting after the Assembly polls in his Tiruvarur constituency on Sunday night. Karunanidhi, who often turned emotional during...
11:10 AM, Jun 06, 2011
Tiruvarur: Defending daughter Kanimozhi, jailed in the 2G scam case, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Sunday said it was he who insisted on her being a shareholder in Kalaignar TV, to which the money related to the spectrum allocation was routed. "Kanimozhi's mistake is my mistake. It was I who compelled her to become a shareholder in Kalaignar TV with a view to settle her a base for her future,"...
09:53 PM, Jun 05, 2011
New Delhi: Will Kanimozhi have to spend another month within the precincts of the high security Tihar jail? This is the question that is foremost in the minds of the people who are closely following the case of bail applications of Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV Managing Director Sharad Kumar. Friday was the last working day for the Delhi High Court before the summer recess and though many expected Justice Ajit...
11:30 AM, Jun 04, 2011
Chennai: The DMK chief M Karunanidhi, who is smarting under the Assembly poll debacle and fallout of the 2G spectrum scam that has brought his family under the scanner, on Friday turned 88, keeping his birthday celebrations on a low-key. "Bad friendship will end in trouble," the DMK patriarch said in a message to party cadres without elaborating. "Cadres who have dedicated themselves to social and political renaissance should keep...
11:09 AM, Jun 03, 2011
New Delhi: Bad friendships end in trouble, said DMK chief MK Karunanidhi as he turned 88 on Friday. Speaking on the occasion, he sounded a warning of sorts to parties considering a re-look into an alliance with the DMK, saying that bad friendship will end in trouble. "Cadres who have dedicated themselves to social and political renaissance should keep going without forgetting that bad friendship would end in trouble," said...
09:04 AM, Jun 03, 2011
Chennai: DMK president M Karunanidhi is scheduled to fly to Delhi on his 88 birthday on Friday where he is likely to meet his daughter Kanimozhi, who is lodged in Tihar jail in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation case. This would be the second visit by Karunanidhi in the last few days to meet his daughter, sources said. Kaniomozhi was lodged in the Tihar jail after a CBI court...
11:56 PM, Jun 02, 2011
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday targeted Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran over his alleged involvement in favouring a company in the 2G spectrum allocation and called for his resignation from the Union Cabinet. "The Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) should ask for Dayanidhi Maran's resignation from the Cabinet. I am sure he will do it if he has already not done...
12:18 PM, Jun 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday reserved order on the bail plea of DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar, accused in the 2G scam. Kanimozhi along with Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar had moved the Delhi High Court challenging a trial court's order against the dismissal of their bail pleas on May 20. Kanimozhi has been charged as a co-conspirator of former Telecom Minister A...
04:53 PM, May 30, 2011
New Delhi: DMK MP and 2G scam co-accused Kanimozhi's bail plea comes up for hearing on Monday. Kanimozhi along with Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar had moved the Delhi High Court challenging a trial court's order against the dismissal of their bail pleas on May 20. Kanimozhi has been charged as a co-conspirator of former Telecom Minister A Raja in 2G scam. Both Kanimozhi and Sharad Kumar are currently in...
07:24 AM, May 30, 2011
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11:44 PM, May 28, 2011
On Board PM's Special Aircraft: In his first public comments on the DMK-Congress alliance after the arrest of Kanimozhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said "as of now" the DMK is "our partner" and there is no change in it. "As of now DMK is our partner and there is no change in that," he said on being asked whether the Government and the Congress party was open to...
04:18 PM, May 28, 2011
New Delhi: The strain in the DMK-Congress relations could manifest itself in a breach in ties in the State local body polls scheduled to take place later this year. By all indications, the seven-year old allies would go their own ways in the local polls that would apparently indicate who holds the actual levers of control in the State. Though the DMK leadership is in "no state of mind to...
09:07 AM, May 27, 2011
Chennai: DMK president M Karunanidhi on Wednesday said he did not call on Congress President Sonia Gandhi during his visit to Delhi as it was 'not appropriate' to meet her when his daughter Kanimozhi, arrested in connection with the 2G scam, was in prison. "There was an opportunity. There was time to meet Sonia Gandhi (but) since my daughter Kanimozhi is in jail, it was not appropriate for me to...
04:20 PM, May 25, 2011
New Delhi: DMK chief M Karunanidhi and his daughter Kanimozhi, arrested in the 2G spectrum case, cried when they met at the Tihar jail in New Delhi on Monday. "We cried," a composed-looking Kanimozhi said on Tuesday, a day after the emotional meeting after her father flew in specially from Chennai for this purpose. "Dad is very upset. It is very sad that he has to go through this at...
09:28 PM, May 24, 2011
New Delhi: One of the followers of jailed DMK MP Kanimozhi had a tough time in a Delhi court on Tuesday which first ordered his detention and then let him off with a stern warning for clicking the photograph of his leader inside the courtroom. "I tender unconditional apology to this court," a visibly shaken follower of the DMK leader told the court with folded hands when he was brought...
07:46 PM, May 24, 2011
New Delhi: A broad smile was Kanimozhi's reply to a question from her half-brother M K Stalin on how was she doing in Tihar jail when they came face to face at a trial court here. Stalin, clad in his trademark white shirt and dhoti, waited for 30 minutes at the Special CBI court at the Patiala House Court complex here for his sister to come. A composed Kanimozhi came...
01:27 PM, May 24, 2011
