Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday termed the partial rollback of petrol prices by Rs two per litre, as an "eyewash" that would not soothe people's anger and demanded a complete rollback. "Reducing Rs two from the earlier hike of Rs 7.50 will not benefit the poor.This small reduction will not soothe people's anger.It will continue to be a burden on poor and middle class," the AIADMK supremo...
04:28 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Chennai: DMK Treasurer MK Stalin on Saturday launched a website brought out to wish party chief M Karunanidhi on the occasion of his 89th birthday on Sunday. An initiative of DMK's Student Wing, www.wishthalaivar.com was launched by Stalin here, who also registered the first greetings for his father, Student Wing secretary Ela Pugazhenthi said in a statement. Karunanidhi turns 89 on Sunday and will be meeting his party supporters at...
01:23 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Chennai: After West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, another UPA ally, the DMK will protest against the petrol price hike on Wednesday. DMK chief M Karunanidhi will be leading the state-wide protest from Saidapet. The protest comes two days after the ruling AIADMK held a similar agitation demanding a rollback. The demonstration will also be targeting the state government for not rolling back the hike in milk prices, power tariff...
07:19 AM, May 30, 2012
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
Thiruvananthapuram: Terming as "unilateral" the findings of the Supreme Court appointed Empowered Committee on Mullaperiyar Dam, Kerala Water Resources Minister PJ Joseph on Tuesday said there was no change in the state's stand on construction of a new dam. The panel relied on the report of Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu to come to the conclusion that the reservoir was safe, rejecting the studies by Roorkie and Delhi IIT's, he...
12:57 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Opposition continues to gun for the government over the recent hike in petrol prices. The ruling AIADMK on Tuesday will be holding demonstrations in Tamil Nadu to demand its immediate rollback. It is being seen as a move to upstage rival DMK which is planning a similar rally on Wednesday. Jayalalithaa said the hike in petrol price could have been avoided by reducing the profit of the...
07:03 AM, May 29, 2012
Cuttack: Services on Monday clinched the 66th Santosh Trophy after beating Tamil Nadu 3-2 in a pulsating final at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Monday. Services mid-fielder Sanju Subba (45th) scored the first goal - his right footer curling away from Tamil Nadu goalkeeper Akhil Soman. Subrata Sarkar doubled the lead in the 49th minute while VV Farhad tapped it past an onrushing Akhil for Services' third goal in...
09:56 PM, May 28, 2012
Chennai: Amid the mounting pressure for rollback of petrol price hike, Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy has said states could reduce the Value Added Tax on petroleum products to provide relief to the people. "The states can lower the VAT and that can help reduce the petrol price," he told reporters at the airport. The latest hike in petrol price by Rs 7.50 has come under flak...
01:35 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
Mandya: A Polish couple has gone missing after setting out on a boat ride in Cauvery river from Tamil Nadu towards Karnataka, police in Mandya said. According to a complaint lodged with police by S Jayaprabha, Manager of a private company at Hosur, his colleague Ian Turton and his wife had embarked on a boat ride from Denkanikote in Tamil Nadu to Muthathi in Karnataka on May 19. The couple...
09:10 AM, May 23, 2012
Vellore (TN): Perarivalan and Murugan, facing the gallows in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and lodged at the high-security prison in Vellore, have cleared the Class XII state board exams with flying colours, scoring a little over 91 per cent and 81 per cent respectively. Perarivalan (41) and Murugan (43) scored 1096 and 983 marks respectively out of a total of 1200 in the exam, results of which were announced...
06:30 PM, May 22, 2012
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary results are out and candidates can go to http://tnresults.nic.in/tnbplus/dgplus.htm to check their results. Girls continued to outshine boys in the Class XII examinations conducted by the state government, results for which were announced on Tuesday. Students hailing from Namakkal district bagged the top three ranks from among nearly 8.20 lakh students who appeared for the exam conducted in March. Girls continued to dominate by...
01:44 PM, May 22, 2012
Chennai: Girls continued to outshine boys in the Class XII examinations conducted by the state government, results for which were announced on Tuesday. Students hailing from Namakkal district bagged the top three ranks from among nearly 8.20 lakh students who appeared for the exam conducted in March. Girls continued to dominate by registering a pass percentage of 89.7 while 83.2 per cent of boys cleared the exams. Incidentally, this time...
12:49 PM, May 22, 2012
CHENNAI : Overlooking the security cut-off time of an hour for VIPs may be an unwritten rule with most private airlines, but an incident at the Thoothukudi airport on Monday showed how hazardous it can be. According to airline sources, Thoothukudi constituency DMK MP SR Jayadurai verbally abused and almost assaulted the manager of Kingfisher Airlines there, for not holding his flight until he arrived. As he was a local...
08:13 AM, May 22, 2012
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