Dismissing speculations that he deliberately skipped the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) executive meeting on Monday, party chief M Karunanidhi's son MK Alagiri said he was unwell and therefore couldn't be a part of the gathering. "I wasn't feeling well and so I couldn't attend. It is not necessary for all leaders to attend all the meetings," he said. ...
05:14 PM, Mar 25, 2013
DMK chief Karunanidhi's son MK Alagiri skipped the party's executive meeting and left for Madurai on Monday. While sources say Alagiri is upset with younger brother MK Stalin, Karunanidhi's political heir, for reportedly pushing their father to withdraw support to the UPA, party leader Tiruchi Siva played it down saying he skipped the meeting because he may be unwell. ...
03:10 PM, Mar 25, 2013
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) executive met on Monday to decide its next course of action, nearly a week after leaving the UPA government over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. The party has decided not to extend even outside support to UPA. ...
12:37 PM, Mar 25, 2013
All does not seem to be well within the DMK as party chief Karunanidhi's son MK Alagiri has skipped the executive meeting and has left for Madurai. Alagiri is reportedly upset with younger brother MK Stalin, Karunanidhi's political heir, for reportedly pushing their father to withdraw support to the UPA. ...
09:00 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Nearly a week after leaving the UPA government over the Lankan crisis, the DMK top brass will meet on Monday in Chennai to decide their next course of action. The DMK executive body is expected to plan their strategy for the next Lok Sabha elections on whether to provide outside support or not. ...
08:22 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Under attack over recent CBI raid at DMK leader MK Stalin's house in Chennai, government on Sunday said the agency's action was not "targeted" at any individual though its timing was "wrong". ...
03:17 PM, Mar 24, 2013
CBI has recovered 16 more luxury vehicles imported by a Hyderabad-based businessman in alleged violation of customs laws which have been sold to various influential persons even as the SUV registered in the name of DMK leader M K Stalin's son rpt son remained untraceable. ...
12:25 AM, Mar 23, 2013
The CBI has said that the imported cars scam unearthed in Chennai may perhaps be the biggest of its kind in India. The scam, in which, the CBI says that officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) are also involved, reportedly caused a loss of Rs 50 crore to the government exchequer. ...
04:43 PM, Mar 22, 2013
A day after the Central Bureau of Investigation stopped raids on DMK supremo Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin for illegal car imports, the agency on Friday continued to conduct search operations across Chennai and other places in Tamil Nadu. No raids were conducted on the DMK first family. ...
11:44 AM, Mar 22, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday clarified that its raid at DMK leader MK Stalin's residence was not a targeted one, and it had searched 18 locations for violation of duties on imported cars. ...
07:00 AM, Mar 22, 2013
The CBI on Thursday carried out raids at DMK leader MK Stalin's residence in Chennai. However, the agency called off the investigations after the government came under opposition attack over the timing of the raids. ...
11:56 PM, Mar 21, 2013
How badly will the CBI raid on DMK's Stalin affect the Congress? CNN-IBN's national bureau chief Bhupendra Chaubey joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
07:07 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Exactly 24 hours after DMK ministers officially walked out of the UPA government, the CBI raided the premises of DMK heir apparent, MK Stalin. The stated objective was to look for a missing imported car, on which import duty hadn't been paid. The DMK, however, called it political vendetta. ...
07:07 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley has criticised the Centre after CBI raids at DMK party leader MK Stalin's residence in Chennai were stopped earlier on Thursday. Questioning the Prime Minister, who called the timing of the raids 'unfortunate' as they came days after DMK withdrew support from the coalition government, Jaitley asked what was the need to stop the raids if the agency was merely doing its work. The PM,...
05:56 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The UPA government, which continues to be in the line of fire after DMK's withdrawal, had to face yet another embarrassment on Thursday after the Central Bureau of Investigation raided DMK chief Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin's residence. What added to the embarrassment was that the bigwigs in the UPA disapproved of the raid, following which the raids were stopped. ...
01:31 PM, Mar 21, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday accepted the resignation of five Ministers belonging to DMK, which withdrew support to the UPA government on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. ...
01:20 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The government seems to have calmed DMK chief Karunanidhi, who gave a toned down reaction to the CBI raids at his son MK Stalin's residence on Thursday morning. Karunanidhi said the raids may or may not be political vendetta, and even indirectly went on to say that the raids may have been political vendetta by the Tamil Nadu government headed by Jayalalithaa and not the Centre. ...
11:49 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Sources say Stalin has not been named in the FIR and add that the agency was just looking for a car on the complaint of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence. ...
11:39 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Arvind Kejriwal accused Chidambaram of first allowing the CBI to raid Stalin and then expressing his displeasure. ...
11:03 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said he disapproves of the CBI raids on DMK leader and Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin as it is bound to be misunderstood. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Chidambaram said, "I strongly disapprove of the action by the CBI. It will be misunderstood. I have spoken to the minister concerned." ...
10:03 AM, Mar 21, 2013
