Chennai: Slamming the Jayalalithaa government for opposing the Sethusamudram project, DMK on Wednesday announced state-wide public meetings on May 15 to press the Centre for speedily completing the project. "Not realising that this project, once implemented, would help the State to grow economically and to further prosper, the AIADMK regime by opposing it has become an anti-people government", DMK said in a statement.
It said the meetings were being organised to press the centre to complete the project as 50 per cent of works on it had already been completed. Recalling that party President M Karunanidhi had taken up with several Prime Ministers both in person and through letters the need to implement the project, the party said, the Rs 2,400 crore project, inaugurated in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, got stalled due to some "retrograde forces".
DMK also flayed the AIADMK for going against the project after having included in its election manifesto in 2004 and 2006 and indulging in "opportunistic politics". Karunanidhi had yesterday alleged the AIADMK Government was opposing the project only because it did not want his party to take credit for the multi-million rupee initiative.
Sethusamudram project is aimed at constructing a shorter navigational route around India's southern tip by breaching the Ram Sethu, mythological bridge built by Lord Rama's army of monkeys and bears to reach Ravana's kingdom Lanka. The project has been put on hold after petitions were filed in the Supreme Court
04:59 PM, May 01, 2013
BJP on Saturday warned the government against going ahead with the Sethusamudram project, saying the sentiments of crores of Hindus are attached to the issue and it will not tolerate any tampering with the Ram Setu. ...
02:58 AM, Feb 24, 2013
Chennai: DMK chief and former chief minister M Karunanidhi on Tuesday accused the Jayalalithaa-led Tamil Nadu government of adopting "double-standards" by opposing the Sethusamudram project in Supreme Court and said it was a "betrayal" of the state. "The AIADMK Government had made a written submission in the Supreme Court saying the project was not at all needed," Karunanidhi, a staunch supporter of the multi-million rupees controversial project, said in a...
02:27 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Chennai: Union ministers and MPs belonging to the DMK on Thursday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to implement the Sethusamudram project at the earliest. They submitted a memorandum a day after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa wrote to Singh asking him to declare Ram Sethu, also known as Adam's Bridge, a national monument. Ram Sethu will be endangered by the Sethusamudram project, which is...
04:49 AM, Mar 30, 2012
'Bridge' was destroyed by Lord Ram, says affidavit. ...
04:11 PM, Oct 14, 2008
Govt doesn't want any damage to Ram Sethu. ...
01:11 PM, Jul 30, 2008
Senior advocate Nariman told SC that Ram Setu was not a national monument. ...
12:15 AM, Jul 30, 2008
Apex court has suggested an alternative alignment for Setusamudram project. ...
09:34 PM, Jul 24, 2008
DMK has been pressurising the UPA Govt to go ahead with the project. ...
10:35 AM, Jul 24, 2008
UPA's determination to go ahead with the project is a reward for DMK. ...
08:02 PM, Jul 23, 2008
Wormsley (England): Batting let the Indian women's cricket team down as it was defeated by 29 runs as per Duckworth-Lewis calculations in the rain-truncated fifth and final one-dayer against England to lose the series 2-3 here. After restricting India to a mere 152 for eight in 50 overs, the English were at a comfortable 124 for four in 36 overs when rain forced an end to the proceedings. The Duckworth-Lewis...
01:45 PM, Jun 08, 2008
Chennai: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said that playing an ODI against England in front of his home crowd in Ranchi will be a big occasion and the entire state is looking forward to it. "I have never dreamt of playing for India. I think this will be a big occasion. We have a new stadium which is well equipped. We have a five-star hotel also there and an airport....
08:15 PM, May 08, 2008
Subtract the date and all that has happened with Australia in the last two years and this was straight out of the mid-200s. Sunny Adelaide, the fourth Test of a one-way series, Australia win the toss and finish the day with more than 300 on the board for the loss of just three wickets, with Ricky Ponting unbeaten on a century. Simple. Except it wasn't, even considering India's woeful form...
07:54 AM, Apr 15, 2008
Dhaka: No Chris Gayle, no problem said West Indies coach Ottis Gibson as he placed his faith in a number of young players for the upcoming series in Bangladesh. Gayle and Gibson have had an estranged relationship following the former West Indies captain's highly controversial interview on Jamaican radio station KLAS Sports in April, when he lambasted the coach as well as West Indies Cricket Board officials. Gibson answered with...
10:09 PM, Mar 06, 2008
Hyderabad: Following the 50-run win over South Australian Redbacks in the Champions League Twenty20 on Sunday, Warriors captain Johan Botha said his team played to the plan and was now looking forward to the challenges ahead. "Two out of two at the start of the tournament is always important," he told reporters after Warriors scored their second successive win in the tournament. He was all praise for Jon-Jon Smuts, whose...
12:14 AM, Mar 04, 2008
Hyderabad: Auckland Aces skipper Gareth Hopkins on Tuesday said it was "gut-wrenching" for his side to crash out of the Champions League twenty20 after coming so close to victory. Auckland, who were beaten by Kolkata Knight Riders by just two runs last night, suffered a four-wicket defeat against Somerset on Tuesday night. "It is gut-wrenching to go this close and fall short. We were just looking to play straighter, but...
04:02 AM, Mar 01, 2008
New Delhi: The Indian cricket team has just got the worst drubbing of their lives. The dressing room resembles a hospital ward. And with selectors having to pick a replacement player every second day, there is not one game in the last couple of weeks where one or more Indian player has taken the field feeling jet-lagged and without any match practice. But it's Monday, the start of a new...
03:34 PM, Feb 29, 2008
Kolkata: Former ICC president Jagmohan Dalmiya remained the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) uncontested at the 80th Annual General Meeting of Cricket Association of Bengal. Having witnessed some bitter battle in the past, CAB witnessed a lacklustre AGM with 101 out of 121 affiliated units turning up for the annual business. There was no star attraction as Sourav Ganguly, busy with his commentary stint in India's tour...
08:09 PM, Feb 15, 2008
London/New Delhi: The Indian High Commission in the UK and the BCCI were on Wednesday at loggerheads over the cancellation of an official reception, with both coming out with contradictory versions on the event. While the Indian cricket Board maintained that they had communicated in advance that the team was not in a position to attend the reception on July 18, the High Commission gave a new twist to the...
06:45 PM, Feb 15, 2008
Pallekele: Pakistans Umar Akmal, who has been tipped to succeed his calamity-hit brother Kamran as wicket-keeper, has suffered a finger injury in practice. But team manager Intikhab Alam said scans had revealed no fracture for the middle-order batsman. "Umar hurt his index finger in the right hand while practicing on Thursday and we rested him as precaution. His scans were all clear," Alam told AFP. Pakistan are considering handing the...
02:57 PM, Dec 30, 2007
