Chennai: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court bench dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi on Tuesday in connection with the illegal granite quarrying case. Durai Dayanidhi is among the 60 people named in the FIR related to the illegal granite mining case. Durai was the director of one the eight mining companies implicated in the case. The police had issued a...
11:02 AM, Sep 25, 2012
Madurai: The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court adjourned the anticipatory bail plea hearing of Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi till September 21. The Tamil Nadu Police had issued a look out notice against him for his alleged roles in the granite mining scam. The police has been cracking down on illegal mining of granite in the Madurai district over the past few weeks. Over 17 FIRs...
02:00 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Madurai: The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court will hear the anticipatory bail plea of Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi on Tuesday. The Tamil Nadu Police had issued a look out notice against him for his alleged roles in the granite mining scam. The police has been cracking down on illegal mining of granite in the Madurai district over the past few weeks. Over 17 FIRs against...
08:34 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Chennai: The hearing on the anticipatory bail plea of Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi has been adjourned till next Monday. The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court will hear his plea in the granite mining scam. Dayanidhi was director of one of the eight mining companies named in the 17 FIRs. The police had issued a look out notice against him and several others for their alleged...
11:26 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Chennai: The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court is set to hear the bail plea of Union Minister MK Alagiri's son Durai Dayanidhi. The police had issued a look out notice against him and several others for their alleged roles in the multi-crore granite mining scam. Dayanidhi was the director of one of the eight mining companies named in the scam. He is among the 60 people named in...
10:40 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Madurai: Close on the heels of the recent raids in granite quarries in Madurai, the police on Monday registered a First Information Report against leading miners in the region, including Union Chemical Minister M K Alagiris son Dhayanidhi Alagiri and the owner of PRP Exports P R Palanichamy for alleged illegal quarrying. The district administration had filed a dozen criminal complaints against granite companies such as PRP Exports and Olympus...
11:58 AM, Aug 07, 2012
Madurai: A day after DMK chief M Karunanidhi expressed the hope that the partys July 4 jail bharo protest would help unify various factions in the party, DMK south zone organising secretary and Union Minister M K Alagiri kept away from the partys urban unit consultative meet held here on Wednesday. Though the function was organised in the Dhaya marriage hall located adjacent to his residence, the Union Minister, who...
11:39 AM, Jun 28, 2012
Chennai: It may not have turned out to be as happy an 88th birthday for DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi as he might have wished. The multi-factioned feud within the veteran leader's family showed no signs of abating even on the leader's special day on Sunday, while the birthday celebrations themselves were a far cry from those of a few years past. With photographs of MK Stalin, Kanimozhi, Dayanidhi Maran and...
10:08 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Madurai: In a move that could further fuel the sibling rivalry in DMK, showcause notices have been issued to 17 supporters of Union Minister and party's strongman in the south MK Alagiri, for not attending a public meeting, convened here by his younger brother MK Stalin. They have been asked to submit their explanation within a week's time for not attending the April 14 meeting, which was organised to condemn...
05:06 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Chennai: DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi once again reiterated his wish to promote his younger son MK Stalin as his successor on Friday. Responding to a recent survey by a Tamil magazine portraying Stalin as the most preferred leader to lead the party, Karunanidhi wondered whether he could deny "such a pride" to his son. On the succession topic being brought up in the general council of the party, Karunanidhi explained...
11:22 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Chennai: The Opposition DMK in Tamil Nadu on Friday passed 24 resolutions at its General Council meeting, with none, however, on the 2G case. The DMK slammed the Centre and the state government for being lethargic in solving the Kudankulam crisis. The 24-pointer party resolution stated, among others, that the Centre and state should expedite solution for the stalled nuclear plant. "The Centre and state are lethargic in solving Kudankulam...
02:15 PM, Feb 03, 2012
Chennai: Senior DMK leader and former Tamil Nadu Minister K Ponmudi was arrested on Wednesday in a land grabbing case. He was arrested from his native Villupuram, 160 km from Chennai, police said. He is the fourth former minister after Veerapandi S Arumugam (Salem), KN Nehru (Tiruchirappalli) and NKKP Raja (Erode) to be arrested on land grabbing charges in the crackdown launched by the Jayalalithaa Government on land grabbing. Besides...
03:11 PM, Aug 31, 2011
Madurai: The Madras High Court on Thursday disposed of a petition seeking to restrain police from arresting Union minister MK Alagiri and two of his family members over a land grabbing complaint against their firm after police said there was no FIR against any of them. Disposing of the petition filed by an official of Dhaya Cyber Park, in which Alagiri and his family members are directors, the court directed...
07:56 PM, Aug 18, 2011
Chennai: Lottery kingpin Santiago Martin and his brother-in-law Benjamin have been arrested by the Salem city police in Tamil Nadu on charges of land grabbing. The Madras High Court had earlier ordered action against him in the case but the previous DMK government sat on the order. Martin is known to be close to Karunanidhi. The full extent of the land grabbing allegations against Alagiri's family was revealed by CNN-IBN...
01:18 PM, Aug 13, 2011
New Delhi: Union minister M K Alagiri's land grab scam has been exposed but it's not just MK Karunanidhi's son who is involved. CNN-IBN investigation reveals the involvement of other top DMK leaders in land scams. CNN-IBN has revealed the full extent of the land grabbing allegations against Alagiri's family with documentary evidence. CNN-IBN has accessed documents to show how Alagiri's wife bought temple land worth over Rs 20 crores...
07:32 AM, Aug 11, 2011
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10:53 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Chennai: Documentary evidence has revealed the full extent of the land grabbing allegations against Union Minister and Karunanidhi's son MK Alagiri's family. CNN-IBN has accessed documents to show how Alagiri's wife bought temple land worth over Rs 20 crore for just Rs 85 lakh from a man facing over 50 criminal cases. Kanthi Alagiri bought land from lottery king Santiago Martin after MK Alagiri became Union Minister. Moreover, the land...
08:59 PM, Aug 10, 2011
New Delhi: Union Minister MK Alagiri and his wife Kanthi on Monday met DMK MP Kanimozhi who is lodged in Tihar jail in connection with the 2G telecom spectrum scam. They met for half an hour inside the reception of Jail No 6, a Tihar official said. This is Alagiri's third visit to Tihar jail to meet his sister Kanimozhi who is in Tihar since May 21 after her arrest...
11:04 PM, Aug 08, 2011
Chennai: Union Minister and DMK leader MK Alagiri on Sunday lashed out at a section of media for publishing 'false' reports about his family's wealth to tarnish his image and said he would initiate legal action against it. In a statement, Alagiri, Madurai-based son of DMK chief M Karunanidhi, said all the properties of his family members were legally acquired and had been accounted. "All the properties acquired by my...
08:13 AM, Aug 08, 2011
New Delhi: DMK leader and Union Minister MK Alagiri is in the news for the wrong reasons again. In its report submitted to Parliament, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has faulted the Department of Fertilisers (DoF) which falls under Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers headed by him for not co-operating with the agency during its performance audit report on the fertiliser subsidy. CAG Vinod Rai and Principal Director of...
08:20 AM, Aug 07, 2011
