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
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against former union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss and nine others in a Delhi court in a corruption case. Ramadoss allegedly misused his position to give clearance to a medical college in Indore in 2008. According to the chargesheet, Ramadoss, two doctors of the Safdarjung hospital in Delhi, and owner of Index Medical College, Indore are the main accused...
05:52 PM, Apr 27, 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
New Delhi: Former Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss is under CBI scanner with the agency finalising its charge sheet which names him for his alleged help to a Indore based medical college to get MCI accreditation even though it was not eligible for the same. The agency has sought government nod for prosecution of two Health Ministry officials: a Deputy Secretary and an under secretary and two doctors of Safdarjung Medical...
11:06 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: With the Supreme Court judgement that sanction to prosecute a public servant has to be given within three months, the health ministry has been forced to act. It's giving sanction to prosecute four government servants. The fifth on the CBI chargesheet is former health minister A Ramadoss. Ramadoss is accused of helping the medical college in Indore, the Index Medical college, to function. Ramadoss allegedly allowed Index Medical...
06:16 AM, Mar 05, 2012
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
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: 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: Ruling out a Common Minimum Programme for the DMK-led front for the April 13 Tamil Nadu assembly polls, one of its constituent PMK on Monday said the alliance was only a "seat-sharing agreement",and "not based on principles". "Hence, there is no need for a CMP," PMK founder S Ramadoss said in an apparent reference to the demand in this regard made by Congress, the second largest partner in the...
12:08 PM, Mar 22, 2011
Chennai: Ruling out a Common Minimum Programme for the DMK-led front for the April 13 Tamil Nadu assembly polls, one its constituent PMK on Monday said the alliance was only a "seat-sharing agreement", and "not based on principles". "Hence, there is no need for a CMP," PMK founder S Ramadoss said in an apparent reference to the demand in this regard made by Congress, the second largest partner in the...
04:23 PM, Mar 21, 2011
Chennai: Ending a month-long uncertainty, the DMK and PMK on Friday clinched an alliance for the coming Tamil Nadu Assembly polls under which the ruling party's junior partner has been allotted 31 Assembly seats. The deal was finalized at a meeting between Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss here on a day when the DMK first family-owned Kalaignar TV was raided by CBI over...
12:28 PM, Feb 18, 2011
New Delhi: India's health industry was crippled back in 2008, when the then Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss decided to shut down three public sector vaccine units — to give contracts to a private firm. Two years back when the three public sector vaccine units were shut down, it led to a shortage of critical vaccines like BCG, DPT and Anti TB vaccines in India. CNN-IBN has accessed the probe report,...
09:52 AM, Oct 19, 2010
Few caste-based outfits have raised the demand for Telangana statehood. ...
03:31 PM, Dec 13, 2009
Old police case leads S Ramadoss to dump AIADMK. ...
10:27 PM, Oct 04, 2009
In 2008, Ramadoss had ordered for closure of three PSU vaccine plants. ...
02:15 PM, Sep 27, 2009
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