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 on it," Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president BS Gnanadesikan told reporters.
DMDK, headed by actor-turned-politician Vijayakant, has fielded party treasurer AR Elangovan as its candidate and biennial elections for six Rajya Sabha seats from the state seems headed for a contest....
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04:50 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Chennai: DMK on Monday announced staging statewide protests next month demanding immediate implementation of the Sethusamudram Shipping Channel project. This will be part of a series of protests on the issue, the DMK's Administrative Council under party chief M Karunanidhi resolved here today. The protests on July 8 will also demand that AIADMK government withdraw an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court against the project, it said. The Rs 2,400...
03:26 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Chennai: DMK Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi's assets have registered over three-fold increase in the last six years to Rs 26.67 crore from Rs 8.56 crore. Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK supremo M Karunanidhi in her affidavit, filed along with her nomination for the Rajya Sabha seat on Saturday, has declared that she owns movable and immovables worth Rs 26.67 crore. Her total declared assets include Rs 16.67 crore moveable property and...
07:47 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Chennai: CPI on Saturday said it does not have any plans for alliance with other political parties in Tamil Nadu for the June 27 Rajya Sabha biennial elections. "Till now there is no such alliance or any such thing. As AIADMK is contesting all five seats, they have expressed their inability to give extra votes", Party's national General Secretary Sudhakar Reddy told reporters here. "So at the moment, no alliance,...
05:12 PM, 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
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
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
New Delhi: Several big political parties such as the Congress and BJP collect a huge amount of money from donations but it's difficult to know about the donors. While protesting against bringing them under the RTI, the parties claim they give all details about donations to the income tax department. But the truth is that the parties don't provide any information about 80 to 90 per cent of their donors....
02:17 PM, Jun 06, 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: MDMK general secretary Vaiko on Saturday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ensure the immediate removal of Sri Lankan naval vessels from Katchatheevu island. In a letter to Singh, Vaiko said there were reports that Chinese vessels and Chinese navy personnel in Sri Lankan vessels had been spotted in the Palk Strait that divides India and Sri Lanka. This, he said, "poses an impending challenge to the sovereign rights...
03:25 AM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Ammal will have to appear as a prosecution witness in the 2G spectrum allocation case, a Delhi court on Friday said. The court dismissed two applications filed by 82-year-old Ammal seeking exemption from personal appearance as a witness and to dispense with her presence in the case citing her ailing health condition. Special CBI Judge OP Saini said Ammal...
05:05 PM, May 31, 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
Chennai: Pained by continuing internal bickering in his party, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Sunday made a fervent appeal for unity, saying he was grieved over the fact that there was enough squabbling in the ranks that would harm the party more than any external factor. With less than a year left for the next Lok Sabha polls, considered crucial for the DMK after being drubbed by arch-rival AIADMK in...
02:15 AM, May 20, 2013
Pudukottai: With the break-up of UPA in Tamil Nadu, Congress leader and former Union minister EVKS Elangovan on Sunday said there was a possibility of his party heading a new alliance sans the two major Dravidian parties - DMK and AIADMK - for the next Lok Sabha elections. Rejecting the charges against Congress over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, he said people were not aware of the party's good work...
01:27 AM, May 20, 2013
Chennai: DMK leader MK Stalin on Friday surrendered his illegally-imported Hummer to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Chennai. Sources said Stalin's son Udayanidhi came to the Chennai office of the agency and handed over Sports Utility Vehicle Hummer which was imported in 2007 and registered in his name. They said the car was one of the vehicles which were allegedly imported by Hyderabad businessman Alex C Joseph evading...
08:49 PM, May 17, 2013
Chennai: Two years after she stormed into Fort St George, the seat of power in Tamil Nadu, with a massive victory, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has a mixed bag of results to show so far. Forcing the central government to gazette the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal by filing a case in the Supreme Court, distributing relief to farmers in the drought-hit areas; urging retrieval of the...
08:20 PM, May 16, 2013
Chennai: Rejecting Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's charge that his party was behind the violence in various parts of the state, Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder S Ramadoss on Tuesday alleged that pro-Dalit Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi was behind the incidents. "The Chief Minister's charge blaming PMK is far from truth," he said in a statement. Ramadoss claimed that he had evidence to prove his charge that VCK was behind the violence....
11:35 AM, May 14, 2013
Puducherry: The opposition AIADMK has accused the Rangasamy-led government in Puducherry of adopting a discriminatory policy against the party out of political vendetta. The party's Puducherry unit secretary A Anbalagan, MLA, alleged that the exclusion of the AIADMK from the State Planning Board was a clear case of discrimination; the government was showing against party legislators. He wondered how those who were not members of the Board were invited to...
11:48 AM, May 07, 2013
Director V N Aditya who is noted for superhit films like 'Manasantha Nuvve' and Nagarjuna's 'Nenunnanu', is currently working on his upcoming film titled 'Park'. The film will feature Santhosh and Sarayu as the lead pair in the film. Ramesh Gogula and Hymavathi Gogula are jointly producing this movie under the banner of G V R Creations and Movies9 Entertainment. The film is presented by Srinivasa Raju. "We have finished...
06:01 PM, May 06, 2013
Erode (TN): A petrol bomb on Sunday was hurled at the office of AIADMK MLA SS Ramanidharan by unidentified attackers, police said on Sunday. Nobody was injured, they said, adding, some furniture and air-conditioner in the building were damaged in the incident. Ramanidharanm, who represents Anthiyur constituency, was not in the office at the time of the incident. Police, quoting eyewitness, said some unidentified persons came in motorcycles to the...
05:00 PM, May 05, 2013
