Chennai: DMK president M Karunanidhi on Friday described the budget as a mix of welcome and avoidable features, adding that its efficacy in improving the living standards of people and taking forward the economy will have to be seen. Curiously Karunanidhi's statement comes after the union ministers belonging to DMK party - including Minister of State for Finance SS Palanimanickam - skipped the presentation of the budget by Finance Minister...
01:44 AM, Mar 17, 2012
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11:55 PM, Mar 14, 2012
Chennai: Upping the ante against the Congress-led UPA Government over alleged war crime issue concerning Sri Lanka, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Wednesday said his party would deem it as a betrayal of Tamils if the Centre does not support the US resolution on Sri Lanka. Asked if his party would withdraw support to the UPA Government if New Delhi supported Sri Lanka in the United Nations Human Rights Council...
11:12 PM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: "Music rippling, blazing - Not knowing where you are; In the fire of your own tune, resound, resound; I love songs; There is tempest in tunes; Resound, resound in the fire of music; And compose a tune....; Sway your Vina in the dreams; Let beauty rise in your tune and rhythm; Beat by beat with your Vina; So many sorrows I forget" - Mamata Banerjee (Melody of the...
07:48 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Chennai: Vigilance officials on Friday raided premises of three personal security officers to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi in Chennai in connection with a disproportionate assets case. Search is on in six premises, including properties of the officers - Pandian, Ganesan and Vinothan - and that of those who bought properties from them, Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption sources said. Several DMK leaders and former Ministers besides MLAs...
12:05 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said India should strongly support the US-backed resolution and condemn Colombo on alleged violation of human rights in the final stages of the civil war in Sri Lanka when the issue comes up before the UN Human Rights Council. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she recalled her earlier memorandum to him last year that the state assembly had urged...
01:18 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Chennai: The Dravidian movement will continue to flourish in spite of "threats and intimidation" from many sides, DMK president M Karunanidhi said on Monday. In his address at a function to mark the centenary of the Dravidian movement, he said, "Today, we are facing so much threat and intimidation from many sides. Undeterred by all these, we would continue walking the steps of (rationalist leader EVR) Periar and (DMK founder)...
09:18 PM, Feb 27, 2012
TIRUCHY: A marriage in former minister K N Nehrus family, which as expected was graced by the bigwigs of the DMK, gave an indication of the growing conflict within the party"quite the contrast to recent statements issued by the headquarters accusing a section of the media of finding non-existent fissures within the outfit.The seating arrangements itself manifested the growing distance between DMK chief M Karunanidhi and party treasurer M K...
08:33 AM, Feb 20, 2012
Tiruchy: Comparing the welfare schemes of the AIADMK government with those of the previous DMK government, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said the previous governments schemes were aimed at benefiting DMK leader M Karunanidhis family, while the AIADMK governments schemes were intended for peoples benefit. Citing an example, Jayalalithaa said the DMK's free colour TV scheme was aimed at benefiting Karunanidhi's family, which owned a cable TV network. Jayalalithaa said Rs...
10:13 AM, Feb 14, 2012
Chennai: Maintaining that due procedure was followed in suspension of opposition leader Vijayakanth of DMDK from the House, Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker D Jayakumar on Wednesday slammed DMK President M Karunanidhi for charging that the action showed ruling AIADMK's "anti-democratic rule." The action of Vijayakanth, making some gestures at the ruling benches in the course of a heated exchange with Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in the House last week, was...
05:21 AM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The rift in the Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) over who will succeed M Karunanidhi continues, even as the party grapples with setbacks in the 2G spectrum scam. Reports say supporters of Karunanidhi's favoured son, MK Stalin, stopped party leader Veerapandi Arumugam from raising the succession issue. Stalin supporters are demanding that he be made the next party chief. But Karunanidhi's elder son Alagiri wants the top party job...
07:38 PM, Feb 03, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa led a host of leaders in extending greetings to people on the eve of harvest festival Pongal, which also marks the beginning of auspicious Tamil month 'Thai'. "On the happy occasion of Pongal - the 'Harvest Festival' and Sankranthi, I extend my heartiest greetings and best wishes to the people living all over the country," Rosaiah said in a Raj...
02:58 PM, Jan 14, 2012
CHENNAI: Former Assembly Speaker K Kalimuthus brother lodged a complaint with the Police Commissioner on Friday, alleging that four persons, including DMK chief M K Karunanidhis daughter Selvi and her relative Uma Maheshwari, cheated him of Rs 69 lakh after promising to make him a member of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC). In his complaint, K Nallathambi, a former additional public prosecutor from Madurai, alleged that he approached...
10:38 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Chennai: Reviving a more than five-decade-old demand in the light of Kerala's stand over Mullaperiyar Dam, DMK on Thursday said Devikulam and Peermedu taluks, where the reservoir is located, belonged to Tamil Nadu and urged the Centre to take steps to restore them to the state. "Kerala government is forcing us to press for retrieval of Devikulam and Peermedu which historically and geographically belonged to Tamils and Tamil Nadu," DMK...
04:59 PM, Jan 12, 2012
CHENNAI: A private company group managing director charged the DMK chief M Karunanidhi, DMK treasurer MK Stalin and several others with usurping properties worth Rs 300 crore belonging to his family and his community. Speaking to reporters, NS Arumugam, managing director, NSA Group of Companies, charged that his prime property in Koyambedu 100 Feet Road and Coffee Estate in Kodaikanal - both worth Rs 50 crore - were usurped by...
11:16 AM, Jan 06, 2012
Chennai: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday reportedly assured DMK that the Centre might consider providing security cover to Mullaperiyar dam over which Tamil Nadu and Kerala are locked in a raging row. After his meeting with the Prime Minister, DMK supremo and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi said the party was also assured that Centre would take all steps to maintain friendly ties between the two neighbouring...
09:30 PM, Dec 26, 2011
Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his two-day visit to Tamil Nadu and take up the Mullaperiyar issue, including "preventing attacks against Tamils" in Kerala and increasing the water storage level of the dam. The Prime Minister is set to arrive in Tamil Nadu on December 25 as part of his two-day visit. The DMK president on Friday chaired a meeting of party's senior...
10:50 PM, Dec 23, 2011
Chennai: Former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi blamed the Central government for being slow and asked it to take a decision on the Mullaperiyar dam controversy before it was too late. "Centre which is slow in decision making should expedite before blood spills," said Karunanidhi. Speaking after a day-long fast by the DMK across Tamil Nadu, Karunanidhi accused Kerala of plotting to make the state a desert. "We will...
05:54 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Chennai: The DMK on Friday announced it would organise fasts all over Tamil Nadu on December 12, demanding that the Centre prevails upon Kerala to implement the Supreme Court order, raising the storage level of Mullaperiyar Dam to 142 feet from 136 feet. The party, which resolved to formulate a course of action on the fasts to protest Kerala's demand for construction of a new dam, also decided to organise...
01:21 PM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: Senior DMK leader and Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin may be arrested along with 4 others in a land grabbing case, sources said on Saturday. Police had registered an FIR against Stalin, his son Udhayanidhi and three others on Thursday for allegedly forcing a businessman to sell his property to them. Stalin alleged that the case was fabricated by the J Jayalalithaa government of trying to divert attention from...
09:19 AM, Dec 03, 2011
