Chennai: DMK president and former Tamil Naddu chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Tuesday moved a court in Chennai seeking action against a Tamil daily, its editor and publisher for its comments relating to Anna Centenary Library, which were allegedly defamatory. In a petition filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistgrate R KIllivalavan, TKS Elangovan, MP, who represented Karunanidhi, said the paper in its November four issue had carried an editorial using "defamatory...
01:12 AM, Nov 09, 2011
Chennai: Five months after Kanimozhi was arrested as an accused in the 2G scam, will she finally get bail? That's the question the Special CBI court will answer on Thursday as it delivers its order on the bail pleas of DMK Rajya Sabha MP and DMK President M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi along with four other 2G accused. Kanimozhi's last statement before she was sent to judicial custody in the 2G...
06:56 AM, Nov 03, 2011
CHENNAI: DMK President M Karunanidhi on Tuesday questioned Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's decision to skip the NDC meeting in Delhi after citing it as the reason for her inability to attend proceedings at a Bangalore court, hearing the wealth case against her. "When the judge asked her if she would be able to attend the hearing that day (October 22), she had expressed her inability, citing this reason. But...
12:10 AM, Nov 02, 2011
Chennai: DMK president M Karunanidhi on Tuesday said he did not discuss with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the filling up of vacancies in the union cabinet caused by the resignations of A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran. "Neither the Prime Minister nor me broached the subject during the meeting" in New Delhi yesterday, he told reporters soon after his return here from the national capital. Asked when those vacancies will be...
01:03 AM, Oct 26, 2011
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New Delhi: When aging DMK supremo M Karunandidhi takes the mid-morning flight back to Chennai on Tuesday, his hands won't be entirely empty. He has the partial consolation that the CBI did not oppose his daughter Kanimozhi's bail plea in the court. But that may not be enough to light up his Diwali. Disappointed DMK leaders believe that the timing of Karunanidhi's Delhi visit may have brought about this Dark...
07:47 AM, Oct 25, 2011
New Delhi: After over five months in jail, the DMK was hoping that Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi would finally get bail. In a reversal of it's stand in the Supreme Court even the CBI counsel UU Lalit told the special court that it does not oppose Kanimozhi's bail plea but at the end of the day Justice O P Saini scripted an anti-climax when he reserved orders for November 3. Earlier...
08:41 PM, Oct 24, 2011
New Delhi: Former telecom minister A Raja faces a possible life term in jail after the court of Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge OP Saini framed charges in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case on Saturday. The judge charged Raja and former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura with criminal breach of trust under Indian Penal Code Section 409 as they are public servants. The other 15 accused including DMK...
11:20 PM, Oct 22, 2011
New Delhi: After a court in Delhi decided that Kanimozhi would stand trial in the 2G spectrum case, DMK chief M Karunanidhi met with her in Tihar Jail on Saturday. Kanimozhi has been in jail since May 21 in connection with the 2G case. Earlier M Karunanidhi met Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the first such meeting between the two leaders after their alliance's rout in the April 13 Tami Nadu...
06:44 PM, Oct 22, 2011
Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday took on Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for blaming the Centre's "inaction" for stalemate in the Kudankulam nuclear plant issue and accused the state government of adopting an "ostrich-like attitude". It is a "pitiable situation" to see those who criticised me for writing to the Prime Minister on the Sri Lankan issue resorting to it now, Karunanidhi said. On Jayalalithaa's remarks that the Centre was...
05:18 PM, Oct 18, 2011
New Delhi: A day after CBI raided the Maran brothers in the 2G case, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday pledged full support to the duo, calling CBI raids on them a 'conspiracy'. "News reports about me not supporting Dayanidhi and Kalanidhi Maran are wrong and disturbing, the DMK patriarch in a statement issued on Tuesday. "I have already said it's a conspiracy against DMK. Murosoli Maran has given them...
02:25 PM, Oct 11, 2011
New Delhi: The noose is tightening around former Union minister and DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran in the Aircel-Maxis deal. Even as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided the residence and offices of Maran and his brother Kalanidhi Maran across Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi on Monday, the DMK is unlikely to jeopardise ties with the Congress because of action against them. The CBI has been claiming that it has found...
03:03 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Political commentator and Thuglak Editor Cho Ramaswamy says the CBI may mess up the 2G scam probe. ...
10:04 AM, Oct 10, 2011
Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Sunday accused the government of giving away a land property in a prime location in the city to a horticultural society. Writing for party organ Murasoli, Karunanidhi traced a long history of how the successive DMK regimes had tried to take back the government land for public purpose used by the Agri-Horticultural Society on Cathedral Road close to the Anna flyover junction. In 1989,...
10:00 AM, Oct 10, 2011
Chennai: With the Opposition gunning for Home Minister P Chidambaram in connection with the controversial finance ministry note on 2G spectrum allocation, DMK president M Karunanidhi on Monday said there should be no political interference in the case. Responding to reporters' queries here on the Opposition demand for Chidambaram's resignation, the 88-year-old DMK patriarch said, "It is their opinion. My opinion is there should be no political interference in this...
11:58 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Monday greeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his birthday, hailing him for his 'profound scholarship and impeccable career'. Karunanidhi, whose party is a key ally of Congress-led UPA, in a telegram to the Prime Minister wished him a very long life of good health and happiness. "Despite innumerable problems, you have been able to steer clear, because of your vast and varied experience, profound...
07:46 PM, Sep 26, 2011
New Delhi: DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Thursday said that former telecom minister A Raja had always maintained that he kept the Prime Minister and the then finance minister informed of all decisions in 2G spectrum allocation. When asked if Home Minister P Chidambaram should resign if found guilty, he said, "It's not proper to comment on anything now without getting the full details. It's up to him to take...
05:54 PM, Sep 22, 2011
Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Sunday took a swipe at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's three-day fast, saying while he agreed with the BJP leader's stand on communal harmony his "past actions" cannot be forgotten. "I agree with Modi's stand on communal harmony. At the same time, Modi's actions in the past cannot be forgotten," he said here in a statement in an apparent reference to the charge that...
06:09 PM, Sep 18, 2011
Chennai: DMK, a key ally of Congress-led UPA, on Wednesday announced it would contest coming local body elections in Tamil Nadu on its own, saying alliances were required only for Lok Sabha and assembly polls. "After deep consideration, DMK decides that there is no necessity to forge political alliances for local body elections (due next month)," party Chief M Karunanidhi said. Alliances were required only for assembly and Parliament polls,...
12:12 AM, Sep 15, 2011
Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Sunday said that the ruling AIADMK should pass 'on humanitarian grounds' a resolution at its cabinet meeting urging the President to reconsider clemency petitions of the three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and forward it to Governor K Rosaiah. The government, he said, should not think its job was over just by passing a unanimous resolution in the Assembly. "On...
07:18 PM, Sep 11, 2011
Chennai: Criticising the AIADMK government for detaining some of his partymen in alleged land grab cases, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Saturday said the ruling party's intentions of running the state "on the basis of intimidation" would only result in "disappointment". "If they (AIADMK) believe that they can give a go by to free thought, fearless exchange of thoughts, discussion and consultation and intend to rule in a dictatorial manner...
08:16 PM, Sep 03, 2011
