
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: 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: 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 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

Few caste-based outfits have raised the demand for Telangana statehood. ...

03:31 PM, Dec 13, 2009

AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa's demand for Tamil Eelam welcomed across TN. ...

09:51 PM, Apr 26, 2009

PMK founder Ramadoss says party will decide after its General Council meet. ...

07:56 PM, Mar 10, 2009

Chennai: After upsetting the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in their previous match, Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) added another feather to their cap by toppling the Cape Cobras by two wickets, in a Pool A encounter of the 2011 Champions League Twenty20 competition on Tuesday. While the Cobras crashed out of the tournament with this loss, T&T now await the result of the match between Chennai and the New South Wales...

12:27 PM, Mar 06, 2008