New Delhi: The UN Human Rights Council will on Thursday debate on a US resolution urging Colombo to probe alleged violations during its war with Tamil separatists. The Indian government is facing immense pressure from the DMK and the AIADMK to vote for the resolution. Sources at the Ministry of External Affairs said India will be voting in favour of the proposal. However, Sri Lanka on Tuesday requested India to...
06:52 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Bangalore: Sasikala Natarajan, estranged aide and co-accused in the wealth case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, on Wednesday told the special court that the Chennai Police violated a court order during the raids conducted at the latter's residence in 1996. She was responding to a question regarding valuable watches that were seized during the raids at Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden Residence. Police had violated the court order in taking the...
05:03 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: The bypoll results conducted in 12 seats - seven in Andhra Pradesh and one each in Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Odisha - were a mixed bag for the national political parties. While the Congress won in BJP strongholds of Gujarat and Karnataka, it drew a blank in Andhra Pradesh. The Congress-led UDF won the seat in Kerala, while the BJP managed to win in only one...
04:20 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Chennai: Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK on Wednesday retained the Sankarankoil (SC) Assembly constituency, with party nominee S Muthuselvi defeating DMK candidate Jawahar Suryakumar by a massive margin of 68,744 votes. Muthuslevi polled 94,964 votes against Suryakumar's 26,220. Vaiko-led MDMK's Sadan Thirumalai Kumar polled just 20,675 votes while DMDK's Muthukumar was pushed to the fourth spot with a meagre 12,144 votes. DMK, MDMK, DMDK and nine other candidates who were in the fray...
03:13 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Sankarankoil: Ruling AIADMK's S Muthuselvi was leading by 3583 votes after the first round of counting was over in the Sankarankoil (SC) assembly bypoll in Tamil Nadu this morning. DMK's Jawahar Suryakumar was in the second spot with 1917 votes followed by the MDMK and DMDK who polled 1184 and 798 votes, official sources said. The bypoll was necessitated due to the death of AIADMK minister C Karuppasamy in October...
10:50 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Puducherry: Opposition AIADMK on Tuesday said the dawn to dusk bandh on Wednesday, urging the UPA government to back the US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at UNHRC at Geneva on March 23, would be held as scheduled. This was stated in a party press release in Puducherry. Functinoaries of AIADMK's local unit on Tuesday distributed pamphlets at various centres, asking traders, fleet operators, auto and tempo workers, students and...
06:48 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Mamata Banerjee defended her decision to push for Dinesh Trivedi's sacking from the Union Cabinet after he raised passenger fares in all the classes in the budget. ...
09:42 PM, Mar 19, 2012
New Delhi: In a victory for the DMK and the AIADMK, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said that the government intended to vote in favour of the US-led resolution against Sri lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), but the final draft of the resolution was awaited. "We are still waiting for the final draft of the resolution, but we intend to vote in favour of the...
01:01 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Chennai: DMK MP Kanimozhi on Sunday hoped that the Centre will "not push" the party to take a decision on its continuance in the government over India's stand on the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lankan Government in the UN Human Rights Council. "That is the decision for party leaders to make. I hope the DMK will not be pushed to make any such decision and we are hopeful that the...
04:12 AM, Mar 19, 2012
Chennai: Voting for the bypoll in Sankarankoil Assembly constituency of Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district came to an end Sunday with around 75 per cent of the voters casting their ballot. The electoral fate of 13 contestants including six independents is now sealed in electronic voting machines (EVM) in the 242 polling booths in the constituency. An Election Commission of India official said around 75 per cent of the 206,087 voters...
06:58 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Chennai: Voting for the by-poll in Sankarankoil Assembly constituency of Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district began amid tight security at 8 am on Sunday. Thirteen candidates, including six independents, are in the fray vying for votes from 206,087 voters (male 102,921, female 103,166). There are 242 polling booths in the constituency and voting would close at 5 pm. The polling process will be webcasted and will be monitored by the Chief...
09:22 AM, Mar 18, 2012
Chennai: The stage is set for Sunday's by-poll in the Sankarankoil Assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district. Thirteen candidates, including six independents, are in the fray vying for votes from 206,087 voters (male 102,921, female 103,166) in the district, around 650 km from here. Voting in the 242 polling booths would begin at 8 am and end at 5 pm The polling process will be monitored by the chief...
12:01 AM, Mar 18, 2012
Tirunelveli: Hitting the by-election campaign trail in Sankarankoil Assembly constituency on Wednesday, AIADMK general secretary and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa promised to 'light up' Tamil Nadu by gradually reducing power cuts from June this year. Blaming the erstwhile DMK regime for poor handling of the power crisis, Jayalalithaa who landed at a helipad in Thiruvenkadam in the evening, explained the steps taken by her Government to take Tamil Nadu out...
03:41 AM, Mar 16, 2012
Sankarankoil: Accusing the AIADMK government of plunging Tamil Nadu into darkness, DMK president M Karunanidhi on Thursday accused it of not having the intention to operationise the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant that could give 1,000 MW of electricity to the power-starved state. "AIADMK government could not give power to the suffering people and it has no intention to go ahead with the implementation of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant scheme...
02:16 AM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: The DMK is demanding a stronger action from India on the alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. On Wednesday, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna had been non-committal on India's position on a draft resolution at the United Nations which seeks to censure Sri Lanka over alleged war crimes. The DMK's arch-rival AIADMK's MPs also staged a walk-out on Wednesday after tearing copies of Krishna's statement. DMK Chief M...
09:59 AM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: There was ruckus in the Rajya Sabha yet again over alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. AIADMK members staged a walkout after tearing a copy of the statement made by External Affairs SM Krishna after he stressed on India's positive role in reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka. "It is through our constructive engagement with the Sri Lankan government and our assistance that there...
03:32 PM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: There was uproar in Parliament after Tamil parties demanded that India backs a UN resolution against Sri Lanka's alleged war crimes. Finance Minister and Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee said the government has not decided its stand on the issue as yet. Pranab dropped a hint saying the government normally did not back country-specific resolutions. "PM has written a letter to Karunanidhi and the Tamil Nadu Chief...
02:01 PM, Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: The second day of the Budget session on Tuesday began with an uproar in both Houses over the issue of alleged atrocities by Sri Lankan forces. MPs created a ruckus in Parliament and showed newspapers carrying reports of a video threatening to expose alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka in Parliament. DMK, AIADMK and the Left parties submitted notices for suspension of the Question Hour to discuss the...
11:29 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Chennai: Blaming ruling AIADMK over delay in the commissioning of Kudankulam Nuclear plant,which is mired in a controversy following protests from anti-nuclear lobby, DMK president M Karunanidhi on Sunday urged the state and Central governments to take all steps to commission it immediately. "The people should notice the escapist attitude of the state government, which is doing nothing to commission the plant but blames the Centre besides writing letters. Without...
01:09 AM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: Amid talk of a possible realignment of parties for formation of a Third Front, BJP today said it may discuss the issue with its NDA allies. NDA ally JDU, TMC, AIADMK and BJD have come on the same platform in opposing policies of the central government like formation of NCTC, more powers to the centre in RPF among other issues. This has led to speculation that such like-minded...
03:29 PM, Mar 11, 2012
