Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday reshuffled her cabinet while reallocating the portfolios of some of her ministers. The AIADMK chief inducted P. Mohan as minister for rural industries and dropped C.Ve. Shanmugam, minister for commercial taxes and registration. "The swearing-in of the new minister will be held at Raj Bhavan on Oct 6 at 11 a.m.," said a statement issued here by the secretary to Tamil...
05:08 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Chennai: Opposition DMK on Monday announced staging state-wide human chain protest on October 5 against the "anti-people" policies of the Jayalalithaa government. Accusing the ruling AIADMK of making Tamil Nadu a "dark continent," due to power cuts, law and order problems and price rise among others, party supporters dressed in black outfit will form the human chain in Chennai. In a resolution adopted by DMK's Executive at an emergency meeting...
05:02 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Chennai: Opposition DMK on Monday announced staging state-wide human chain protest on October 5 against the "anti-people" policies of the Jayalalithaa Government. Accusing the ruling AIADMK of making Tamil Nadu a 'dark continent' due to power cuts, law and order problems and price rise among others, party supporters dressed in black outfit will form the human chain here. In a resolution adopted by DMK's Executive at an emergency meeting and...
04:36 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday strongly opposed an All India Common Entrance Test for admission to Under Graduates and Post Graduates courses in medical colleges, saying such a move would interfere with the State's rights and create problems in implementing the reservation policy. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she said that despite the State's protest, the Centre has notified the National Board of...
02:36 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Chennai: With train fares of all AC classes and freight services to cost more from Monday due to service tax, Tamil Nadu government on Sunday demanded its rollback saying the move would only increase inflation. Strongly criticising the UPA for increasing the fares, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said the move was against the people's interest and would increase inflation. "While I strongly condemn the Centre for its act against the...
09:47 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Chennai: In a surprise development, Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker D Jayakumar resigned from his post on Saturday. Jayakumar, elected from Royapuram in Chennai, resigned from office with immediate effect, an official communique said. The communique did not assign any reasons. The functions of the Speaker would now be performed by Deputy Speaker P Dhanapal. Jayakumar, an advocate, became Speaker after the AIADMK led by Jayalalithaa stormed back to power in...
01:38 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday accused DMK president M Karunanidhi of adopting double standards on the Cauvery dispute, Kudankulam nuclear project and power shortage. "It was Karunanidhi who betrayed the interests of state in the Cauvery river water issue. In the assembly, he said Tamil Nadu had no objection to Karnataka building the Hemavathi dam," Jayalalithaa said in a statement. She said that in 1972, Karunanidhi...
01:42 AM, Sep 26, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday charged her arch rival and DMK chief M Karunanidhi with adopting double standards on FDI issue and alleged he had by assuring DMK's support to UPA in the wake of it approving FDI, extended his support to it. Referring to his recent media interaction after Trinamool Congress pulled out of UPA following FDI in multi-brand retail and hike in diesel price, she...
01:17 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minsiter J Jayalalithaa on Monday ordered officials to immediately file a petition in the Supreme Court praying for an order to Karanataka to release the Cauvery river water. Jayalalithaa took the decision after chairing a meeting of ministers and officials, said a government statement. The chairman of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) ordered Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs of water from Sep 20 to Oct 15...
02:40 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is being hosted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over dinner on Thursday night. He is also expected to meet President Pranab Mukherjee later. Rajapaksa is expected to raise the issue of recent attacks on Sri Lankans in Tamil Nadu when he meets the Prime Minister, while India may press for Tamil rights and the reconciliation process. The Prime Minister is expected to call...
04:57 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has claimed that the talks on the controversy over the sharing of water from River Cauvery have failed. The AIADMK chief has said that she will again go to the Supreme Court to seek justice. The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister alleged that Karnataka was not willing to release water for her state. Jayalalithaa further said that the ruling by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
08:15 PM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on Wednesday will be facing the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) for the first time in nine years headed by the Prime Minister in New Delhi. Chennai wants Bangalore to release 2 TMC of water from Cauvery river as crops have been destroyed due to a deficit monsoon. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who has been vociferously demanding such a meeting to discuss thread-bare...
07:11 AM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will chair the much-awaited meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) for the first time in nine years on Wednesday primarily to discuss Tamil Nadu's demand that Karnataka release water from Cauvery river to save the crops that depend on it. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who has been vociferously demanding such a meeting to discuss thread-bare water issues between the state and...
09:26 PM, Sep 16, 2012
Chennai: Charging the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre with lacking economic ideas to tackle the fuel price hike, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday demanded immediate rollback of Rs five hike in diesel prices, besides the ceiling on supply of subsidised cylinders. "The argument that increase in global crude prices and falling value of Indian Rupee against US Dollar are reasons for diesel price hike lacks substance. If...
11:15 PM, Sep 13, 2012
One of the Kudankulam activists said that they will continue to protest at sea and are ready to sacrifice their lives for the cause. ...
12:08 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Kudankulam: As the situation in Kudankulam continued to remain tense, DMK supremo Karunanidhi blamed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for the violence. "There has been a death. There has been violence against protestors who were protesting peacefully. The police and the state are responsible for this violence at Kudankulam. The Jaya government has deployed police forces to curb the protests," Karunanidhi said. Villagers alleged that the police were destroying their...
03:31 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Mumbai: Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi was released from Arthur Road Jail on Wednesday afternoon after he accepted the conditional bail offered by the Bombay High Court. Trivedi was granted bail on a personal bond of Rs 5,000. Refusing to bow down to the pressure, Trivedi as soon as he stepped out of the Mumbai jail said, "Our fight will continue till the time the government continues to curb freedom of expression."...
01:31 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Kudankulam: Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal joined the Kudankulam agitation on Wednesday and slammed the police for allegedly destroying the protestors' houses. The villagers had alleged that the police destroyed their property while searching their homes. Arvind Kejriwal claimed the police destroyed 40 boats of fishermen. "The police is ransacking the houses of the people living here. 40 boats of poor fishermen have been destroyed by the policemen. This is not...
12:30 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Kudankulam: Protests have intensified against the nuclear power plant at Kudankulamin Tirunellveli-Kattabomman district of Tamil Nadu with activist and Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) Convenor SP Udayakumar threatening to court arrest along with other leaders if the plant is operationalised while senior lawyer Prasant Bhushan moved the Supreme Court against the loading of fuel. Udayakumar alleged that the police had been spreading false rumours about the protestors being violent....
07:19 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Chennai: The protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project on Tuesday spread to Chennai with members of various parties and outfits being arrested for staging road blockade in various parts of the city. Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi founder and Lok Sabha MP Thol Thirumavalavan and MDMK leader Mallai Sathya were among the scores of agitators who were arrested for staging road-blocks in different parts of the city, police said, adding smaller...
01:23 PM, Sep 11, 2012
