MAHABALIPURAM: Pattali Makkal Katchi leaders painted Anbumani Ramadoss, son of the party founder S Ramadoss, as the Chief Ministerial candidate for the next State Assembly election due in 2016, during the Chithirai Full Moon Vanniyar Youth Festival, here on Saturday night.Almost all functionaries, including GK Mani, AK Moorthy and R Velu during their invocations anointed Anbumani as the CM candidate and called for the support of the entire community to...
08:56 AM, May 07, 2012
CHENNAI: The body of a youth, who was in love with the daughter of a former PMK councillor, was found here on Wednesday night.Bilal of Pillayar Koil Thottam in Mylapore, allegedly eloped with former PMK councillor Manivannans daughter Deepa (name changed) on December 2, last year. Acting on a complaint of abduction from Manivannan, the Mylapore police had summoned both families for questioning and to work out a compromise. Manivannan...
07:58 AM, Mar 15, 2012
Chennai: CBI has questioned Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder S Ramadoss and his son, former Union Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, in connection with the murder of a relative of Tamil Nadu minister for Commercial Taxes Thiru C.Ve Shanmugam, sources said. While the senior PMK leader was questioned last evening, Anbumani Ramadoss was interrogated few days back, they said. A relative of Shanmugam, Muruganandham, was murdered by an armed gang on May...
10:20 AM, Mar 12, 2012
Chennai: Criticising the Centre's decision to invite officials from Tamil Nadu and Kerala for discussions on the Mullaperiyar Dam issue, PMK on Tuesday asked Tamil Nadu not to hold talks with the neighbouring state as a case on the matter is pending before the Supreme Court. Alleging that the Centre had given the invitation for talks only "under pressure" from Kerala government, PMK founder S Ramadoss said the Union government...
03:18 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Theatre owners in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday said they will not screen 'Dam 999'. They claim they do not want to scare people. The movie, based on row between Tamil Nadu and Kerala over 116-year-old Mullaperiyar dam, is about what happens when the dam collapses. The movie is slated to release on November 25. DMK President M Karunanidhi on Wednesday came out against the release of 'Dam 999', a...
05:11 PM, Nov 23, 2011
Chennai: Two political parties in Tamil Nadu MDMK and PMK today demanded a ban on the release of Hollywood film 'Dam 999' in the country, saying it depicts the scenario of the collapse of century-old Mullaiperiyar Dam over which the state is locked in a row with Kerala. MDMK leader Vaiko, in a statement, said the film, financed by Keralites, starring Indian and Hollywood actors and directed by Sohan Roy...
05:12 PM, Nov 22, 2011
Chennai: Six months after it won the Assembly election, Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK was on Friday all set to sweep the civic polls, capturing all 10 corporations in the state and a majority of other civic bodies. Counting of votes cast in the two-phased poll, held on October 17 and 19, began at 822 places across the state in the morning. AIADMK shot into the lead early into counting in...
05:03 PM, Oct 21, 2011
Chennai: The DMK and the PMK on Tuesday moved the Madras High Court seeking re-polling in 239 booths in the city alleging irregularities during the first phase of local body elections. In his petition, Chennai Mayor M Subramanian of DMK also sought a direction to State Election Commission authorities to count the votes polled for the posts of mayor and councillors simultaneously and cancel the elections to the other local...
01:23 AM, Oct 19, 2011
Kanchipuram (Tamil Nadu): Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder Dr S Ramadoss attributed the failure of the party in the April 13 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections to the "arrogance and lethargy" of the party workers. Party organisers had been "over confident" and took success for granted, he said at the Integrated West and South districts' working committee in Kanchuipuram on Thursday. They had not fulfilled their commitment of adding 20 new...
11:44 AM, Jul 22, 2011
Chennai: The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) continued to make noises indicating an imminent end to its fateful alliance with the DMK at a meeting of the party's Chennai district general council on Sunday. Speakers at the event reflected the vitriolic employed by their leader S Ramadoss that the PMK's woeful showing in the recent Assembly elections was not a reflection against the party, but the DMK. "Any party that stood...
08:13 AM, Jul 18, 2011
Chennai: DMK ally Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which endured a drubbing in the April 13 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, will soon review its ties with the Dravidian outfit, party chief S Ramadoss said on Friday. In his first press conference after the polls, where his party returned only three MLAs to the Assembly out of 30 contestants, Ramadoss said the decision would be made before the local body polls scheduled...
01:08 PM, Jul 01, 2011
Chennai: The declaration of results to the State Assembly elections slated for May 13 might be marginally delayed by a few hours, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Praveen Kumar indicated in Chennai on Sunday. Speaking to Express after holding a consultative meet with recognised political parties on the preparations to the counting exercise, Kumar pointed out that in previous polls, the counting process continued even while the collation for the earlier...
11:17 AM, May 09, 2011
Tamil Nadu voters question their leaders as parties trying to buy votes with freebies. ...
10:06 PM, Apr 11, 2011
But, Tamil Nadu's April 13 verdict will only be known on May 13. ...
07:25 PM, Apr 11, 2011
Coimbatore: Will small and rural Industries Minister Pongalur Palanisamy withstand the onslaught of problems created to Small Scale Industries due to frequent powercuts in this textile city, known as 'Manchester of India'? Coimbatore South, a new urban constituency born out of the delimitation exercise, where Palanisamy is trying his luck, has an electorate mostly comprising small-scale industrialists. With polling day a week away, the overwhelming demand of residents in this...
01:25 PM, Apr 06, 2011
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