New Delhi: Troubles mount for Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran as, sources say, the CBI will investigate the alleged links between Maran family-owned Sun TV and Maxis Group. As the CBI tightens its noose in the 2G scam, a worried Maran on Wednesday defended himself for the first time since the controversy erupted. In damage control, Dayanidhi Maran, after meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, met Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal and...
05:41 PM, Jun 01, 2011
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday targeted Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran over his alleged involvement in favouring a company in the 2G spectrum allocation and called for his resignation from the Union Cabinet. "The Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) should ask for Dayanidhi Maran's resignation from the Cabinet. I am sure he will do it if he has already not done...
12:18 PM, Jun 01, 2011
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11:57 PM, May 31, 2011
New Delhi: After A Raja and Kanimozhi, Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhai Maran has become the latest target of the BJP in the 2G scam following the allegations that he favoured Singapore based company Maxis Communication. Based on reports on the Tehelka Magazine, the BJP has demanded that he should respond to allegations that he deliberately delayed licences when he was the telecom minister in 2006 to benefit Aircel promoters Maxis,...
05:05 PM, May 31, 2011
New Delhi: As the DMK reels from the double shock of losing the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections and MP Kanimozhi behind bars in the 2G scam, it seems that one top party leader had seen it coming. Top secret US Diplomatic cables accessed by WikiLeaks and published in 'The Hindu' newspaper claim that DMK MP and Karunanidhi's grandnephew Dayanidhi Maran had predicted the party's downfall as early as February 2008....
08:38 AM, May 23, 2011
New Delhi: The DMK leadership crisis will continue no matter if the party wins the Tamil Nadu elections or not. With members of the first family of the state coming under public scrutiny and A. Raja already in the dock for his role in the 2G Spectrum scandal, it appears DMK has very few options to turn to. It has been a conscious DMK strategy to project party patriarch M....
07:45 AM, May 13, 2011
Chennai: AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa campaigned in Chennai on the final day of campaigning for the Tamil Nadu elections. Jayalalithaa is hoping to sweep Chennai, which was once the DMK bastion, and also where the impact of the 2G scam is expected to be maximum. Meanwhile Karunanidhi is hoping for a rural victory and has been campaigning in Thiruvarur to ensure he wins for the twelfth time. But in Chennai, MK...
08:48 AM, Apr 12, 2011
New Delhi: The Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) and the Congress on Wednesday signed a formal agreement on seat sharing in Chennai. The DMK has allotted 63 seats to the Congress. The three days of political drama ended on Tuesday with the DMK conceding 63 seats for the Congress in Tamil Nadu polls. "We are happy to announce the alliance. It's a winning alliance and we will come back to power...
12:20 PM, Mar 09, 2011
New Delhi: The three days of political drama finally ended on Tuesday with the DMK conceding 63 seats for the Congress in Tamil Nadu polls. "We are happy to announce the alliance. It's a winning alliance and we will come back to power again," said Gulam Nabi Azad. Now that the seat sharing deal is sealed, the questions being asked are who blinked first and what is the deal that...
07:42 AM, Mar 09, 2011
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
CNN-IBN's expose on the DMK's arm-twisting of the Prime Minister over spectrum pricing rocked Parliament on Friday. The Opposition stalled work in both houses for yet another day, not relenting on the demand for a JPC probe. It was the 10th straight day that Parliament was paralysed after CNN-IBN aired explosive details of communication between the Prime Minister and the then telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran. MPs are now demanding that ...
10:46 PM, Nov 19, 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
Dayanidhi Maran, who was the telecom minister in 2006, forced Manmohan Singh to keep spectrum pricing out of Empowered Group of Ministers' purview. ...
11:47 PM, Nov 18, 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
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01:22 PM, Dec 07, 2009
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