New Delhi: A meeting between the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and DMK leaders MK Alagiri and Dayanidhi Maran over seat sharing in Tamil Nadu has been inconclusive, sources have said. Sources also said that a miffed Sonia also made herself clear that the DMK had violated coalition dharma by threatening to pull out of the alliance and going public with their differences. Sources said that the Congress...
09:15 AM, Mar 08, 2011
New Delhi: DMK ministers M K Alagiri and Dayanidhi Maran on Monday night met Congress President Sonia Gandhi and are understood to have discussed the deadlock between the two parties on the issue of seat-sharing issue for Tamil Nadu Assembly polls. Sources have told CNN-IBN that DMK ministers' talks with Sonia failed to break deadlock. The meeting came hours after DMK decided to put on hold its decision to withdraw...
10:50 PM, Mar 07, 2011
New Delhi: AIADMK chief Jayalalitha on Friday said the 2G scam predates former telecom minister A Raja and DMK Chief M Karunanidhi's grand nephew Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran should be probed. Jayalalitha has welcomed the Supreme Court decision to monitor the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) but she also has come down heavily on the CBI for its inaction. The AIADMK chief slammed the central investigating agency for not...
11:24 AM, Dec 17, 2010
New Delhi: Under pressure on the 2G spectrum scam, the United Progressive Alliance has rallied behind Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with senior Cabinet ministers and Congress leaders coming out openly to defend him. A battered Congress on Friday finally came down heavily on its critics with the new Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal defending the Prime Minister and criticising accused Janata Party Subramanian Swamy for scoring political point. It was a...
06:31 PM, Nov 19, 2010
New Delhi: The DMK on Friday denied the charge of arm-twisting the Prime Minister saying that the decision on spectrum pricing was very much the Telecom Minister's prerogative. After the CNN-IBN expose on how the DMK arm-twisted the Prime Minister - forcing him to keep the spectrum pricing out of the GoM mandate, DMK went on the defensive. DMK leader TKS Elangovan defended all allegations saying that no one dictated...
02:55 PM, Nov 19, 2010
New Delhi: The 2G spectrum scam has now reached Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's doorstep. CNN-IBN has accessed a letter written to Manmohan Singh by Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) leader Dayanidhi Maran, who was the telecom minister in United Progressive Alliance government's first term, demanding that spectrum pricing be kept out of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGOM). The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) agreed to DMK's arm-twisting Manmohan Singh to keep...
08:06 PM, Nov 18, 2010
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold the telecom portfolio following A Raja's resignation for his alleged links with the 2G spectrum scam. Raja is a Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) Member of Parliament from the Nilgiris(SC) Lok Sabha constituency. Sources say two top DMK members are now eying the Telecom Ministry. Sources say Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran is in the race. He had to quit as telecom minister...
07:18 AM, Nov 15, 2010
Broadcast empire survives political crackdown, beats competitors. ...
01:22 PM, Dec 07, 2009
The fight for portfolios in the new Cabinet is far from over. ...
09:46 AM, May 27, 2009
Karunanidhi has ruled out any rapproachment within the family. ...
11:14 PM, Nov 21, 2008
The plight of Tamils in SL has become a sticking point in Tamil Nadu. ...
01:06 AM, Oct 21, 2008
Maran met the DMK chief for the first time since his exit from the cabinet. ...
11:16 PM, Oct 19, 2008
Maran handed over his resignation letter due to the Lankan violence. ...
06:17 PM, Oct 19, 2008
Brisbane: Australia on Tuesday used the leg-spin bowling of a Pakistani asylum seeker in their first net practice session ahead of this week's first Test against South Africa in Brisbane. Fawad Ahmed, who is awaiting a decision from the Australian government about his refugee protection claim, bowled against Australia's top batsmen as a preparation for South African spinner Imran Tahir ahead of Friday's Gabba Test opener. Ahmed, who plays Melbourne...
01:29 AM, Jul 16, 2008
Mumbai: Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Murali Vijay have been recalled to India's Test team for the first time in over a year as the new BCCI selection committee named a 15-man squad for the first two matches against England this month. Suresh Raina, Piyush Chawla and S Badrinath were the men dropped from India's previous Test squad. Injury concerns over an injured finger were dispelled on Monday when Virender...
07:56 PM, Jul 15, 2008
Lahore: Pakistan Twenty20 skipper Mohammad Hafeez, who also led the team in the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle, is facing an uphill task to save his place in the national side. Sources in the team said that while Hafeez, who was only recently named the national team's T20 skipper in place of Misbah-ul-Haq, enjoyed the full backing of coach Dav Whatmore but a whispering campaign had started against...
09:56 PM, Jun 03, 2008
Karachi: After maintaining innocence for more than a year, banned Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir on Friday confessed his involvement in a match-fixing scandal that rocked the cricket world last year. According to sources, the young fast bowler submitted his written confession during a hearing at the Southwark Crown Court in London. Amir, 19, was one of the three leading Pakistani cricketers who were banned by the International Cricket Council (ICC)...
10:56 AM, Feb 29, 2008
Mumbai: India's seemingly never-ending tour of England is about to end and some of the exhausted players like Praveen Kumar can expect a bit of relief. However, skipper MS Dhoni - the one player who needs it the most - isn't that lucky. He will lead Chennai Super Kings in the Champions League Twenty20 next Saturday. All through the tour of UK, observers have opined that Dhoni was struggling with...
03:28 PM, Feb 28, 2008
Jaya says DMK should explain why it was so late in reacting to Maran's follies. ...
10:49 AM, Jul 10, 2007
Neither Dayanidhi Maran nor his brother turned up to greet their granduncle Karunanidhi on his birthday. ...
02:51 AM, Jun 04, 2007
