Chennai: Muslim party Manithaneya Makkal Katchi's (MMK) two legislators in the Tamil Nadu Assembly would vote in favour of DMK's Kanimozhi in the June 27 Rajya Sabha biennial elections, said a party official.
Speaking to reporters here Wednesday, MMK leader MH Jawahirullah said: "We met DMK chief M. Karunanidhi and expressed our support to Kanimozhi in the Rajya Sabha elections."
DMK has 23 members and with MMK's support, the total number of votes assured for Kanimozhi is 25.
Queried about the reason for supporting DMK after supporting AIADMK since 2011, Jawahirullah said the ruling AIADMK and the Communist Party of India (CPI) have sufficient votes to get their candidates elected and his party does not want to waste its votes....
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01:26 AM, Jun 20, 2013
Chennai: A day after the main opposition party DMDK entered the fray for the June 27 biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu, the party approached the Congress seeking support for its candidate. "Five DMDK MLAs met me and gave me a letter, which requested Congress support for their candidate in the RS polls. I have forwarded the letter to Delhi... party high command will take a decision...
04:50 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday announced that the state government would soon approach the Supreme Court with a contempt of court petition against Karnataka and another petition to direct the central government to set up Cauvery Management Board (CMB) and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC). Jayalalithaa also announced sops for the state's farmers like fertilisers, pesticides and pipes free of cost involving an outlay of...
04:39 AM, Jun 15, 2013
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said in Chennai that the next central government in 2014 would be friendly to the state. Referring to her recommendation to the central government that the Cancer Institute here be upgraded as a centre for excellence, Jayalalithaa said: "If the approval fails to materialise... Next year there will be a friendly government at the centre that will immediately approve the Cancer...
12:26 AM, Jun 13, 2013
AIADMK chief J Jayalaithaa on Wednesday added to the growing Third front clamour and said, "If the present government doesn't release the funds for the cancer institute this year, then I assure that there will be a friendlier government next year that will get the work done." ...
09:00 PM, Jun 12, 2013
Chennai: AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa on Monday announced five of her party nominees for the June 27 biennial election to the six Rajya Sabha seats from Tamil Nadu, giving V Maithreyan a successive term. Maithreyan, chief of AIADMK's Medical wing, is one of the six MPs from the state whose term expires by July 27. The others are AIADMK's A Elavarasan, Kanimozhi and Tiruchi N Siva (both DMK), B S...
03:40 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi/Chennai: The bail pleas of suspended Rajasthan Royals cricketers S Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan, alleged bookie Jiju Janardhanan and 15 others in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal will be heard by a MCOCA court in Delhi on Monday. Sreesanth has been claiming innocence saying he has been wrongly implicated in the case. His lawyer also said that it was wrong to charge a cricketer under the MCOCA. The...
08:11 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Chennai: Ruling AIADMK on Saturday accused the UPA government of having "step-motherly attitude" towards Tamil Nadu and acting in ways affecting federalism. The party Executive which met under its presidium chairman E Madhusudhanan and in the presence of the AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa "condemned" the Centre for acting in ways affecting the federalism. It adopted a resolution saying the Centre's steps such as not consulting states on forming the National Counter...
01:15 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Crime Branch-CID has issued fresh summons to hotelier Vikram Agarwal to appear for questioning next week in connection with the IPL betting case. Last week, Agarwal, who is allegedly linked with IPL-betting and allowed some bookies to operate from his hotels, had sought time to appear before the CB-CID. "Yes. We have issued (summons)," a CB-CID official said today, confirming the development. Officials were tight-lipped on when...
03:52 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday accused the central government of not taking a firm stand on the attacks on Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy. She said the Indian government was not exerting pressure on Colombo to find a solution to the problem. Referring to the arrest of 49 fishermen from Tamil Nadu by the Sri Lankan Navy Wednesday, she said in a letter to...
05:11 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Bangalore: Karnataka on Thursday decided to seek re-fixing of the Cauvery river water share between it and Tamil Nadu, particularly in the four months from June, on the basis of rainfall in the last five years. As per the Cauvery water tribunal award, Karnataka now has to give Tamil Nadu 134 TMC feet (thousand million cubic) of water between June and September each year. Acutal rainfall in the last five...
02:25 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Chennai: Hotelier Vikram Aggarwal, who is under investigation for his links with bookies betting on IPL matches, has sought more time from the Crime Branch and Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID). Aggarwal was summoned for questioning in Chennai by the CB-CID on Wednesday. On May 31, the Tamil Nadu Police had searched two hotels owned by Aggarwal. The hotelier owns two hotel properties - the 129-room Fortune Select Palms near Chennai...
04:23 PM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday slammed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa for her decision to skip the conference of Chief Ministers on internal security in the capital on Wednesday saying nobody should "undermine" an important meeting like this over "petty politics". Party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed said not getting enough time to speak in a meeting should not be used an "alibi" by any Chief Minister to undermine the...
08:18 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Chennai: An abducted British couple was rescued and nine persons, including two Sri Lankans, were arrested for allegedly committing the crime and demanding Rs 2.58 crore as ransom. Chennai Police coordinated with Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard), London, and Serious Organised Crime Agency, United Kingdom, state and central intelligence agencies and rescued the couple from an SUV bound for a house at Mandarakuppam in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu on Sunday...
09:38 AM, Jun 04, 2013
Tiruchirapalli: Aimed at making Tamil Nadu achieve all round development, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday launched Rs 1,854 worth of projects in Srirangam constituency in the district. Out of this, Jayalalithaa laid the foundation stone for several projects valued at Rs 1,752 crore. "My government has been taking efforts based on the concept of promoting humanity and enhancing the state's infrastructure facilities which will make the state achieve an...
03:55 AM, Jun 04, 2013
Hyderabad: Seeking to mount pressure on the ruling Congress, BJP on Monday demanded that the government should move a Bill in Parliament for formation of separate Telangana or convene a special session for the purpose. "BJP will support it (the bill) fully without any condition. If necessary, you convene a special session for forming separate Telangana and BJP will support it even then," BJP President Rajnath Singh said. He was...
11:45 PM, Jun 03, 2013
Chennai: The low-cost tiffin centres, which have become popular among the poor people in the city, were on Sunday launched in nine other cities in Tamil Nadu by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. Jayalalithaa launched the "Amma Unavagams" in Madurai, Coimbatore, Tiruchirapalli, Tirunelveli, Salem, Tiruppur, Tuticorin, Vellore and Erode through video conferencing from the state secretariat, an official release said. The nine corporations would have 10 canteens each. She also launched the...
10:10 PM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: After hitting Kerala, the monsoon is expected to advance to parts of Tamil Nadu and drought-hit states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh over the next two days. Arriving in Kerala two days ahead of schedule, the monsoon has boosted farming prospects and raised hopes in the cotton and sugar growing belt. Meanwhile, onset of monsoon brought respite from the heat for the north Indians as the mercury continued...
07:00 PM, Jun 02, 2013
Chennai: The SSLC (Class X ) results were announced in Tamil Nadu on Friday, with a pass percentage of 89 per cent being registered and nine girls from different districts topping the list. The girls secured 498/500 marks while the number of students scoring centum in Mathematics and Science registered a massive increase. Two girls, one from Puducherry and another from Chennai, scored 499 but they had opted for Sanskrit...
09:56 AM, Jun 01, 2013
Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday criticised his Tamil Nadu counterpart J Jayalalithaa for reportedly seeking over Rs 2,000 crore in damages from the state for not releasing Cauvery water. "We do not have water to drink but still we released water to Tamil Nadu as per Supreme Court directive," he told reporters in Bangalore. "She still rakes up this issue frequently. I do not know why she does...
02:54 AM, May 31, 2013
