In an attempt to appease the powerful Nadar community in Tamil Nadu, particularly in the wake of actor Sarath Kumar’s decision to float a political party, the DMK has picked 31-year-old Radhika Selvi, MP and widow of ‘don’ Venkatesa Pannayar, to be included in the Union Council of Ministers. An official announcement said that Selvi […]

Chief Electoral Officer Naresh Gupta on Tuesday said that all necessary steps including deployment of Central paramilitary forces would be taken by the Election Commission (EC) to ensure a free and fair poll in the by-election for Madurai (West). The final rolls for the Madurai (West) segment would be published on Wednesday, he said. The […]

Wipro Infotech announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Centre for Distance Education of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Aligarh to act as the strategic IT services partner for the Institute. Through the partnership, Aligarh Muslim University has engaged Wipro as the preferred IT partner for providing technology solutions and participating in […]

Deutsche Bank ambassador and former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar paid a visit to the Chennai branch of the bank to interact with its customers on Friday. He was accompanied by Asha Mathen, regional head, Business Clients, Deutsche Bank. As part of the interaction, Gavaskar and Mathen met the top customers and also visited the offices of […]

  Dayanidhi Maran’s proximity to DMK chief M. Karunanidhi secured IT and Communications Minister Dayanadhi Maran a berth in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s cabinet. And this proximity again cost him the job he landed in his very first term as an MP. For Maran, 40, the grand-nephew of Karunanidhi, politics was not the first choice […]

  Communications and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran had to resign from the union cabinet as he is said to be up against the women of DMK patriarch and Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s family. The women here would be Dayalu Ammal, mother of M.K. Azhagiri and M.K. Stalin – Karunanidhi’s sons, his ambitious daughter […]

Communications and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran, who resigned from the cabinet, said yesterday he would not become a minister again, even if he was offered, but insisted he would always remain a “DMK man”. Addressing a press conference here, Maran claimed that United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were […]

The social-networking Internet site MySpace on Friday announced a system that prevents users from re-posting video clips that have been removed from the website at copyright-holders’ request. The new copyright technology, called “Take Down Stay Down,” is alerted upon a copyright owner’s request to remove a video clip, takes a digital fingerprint of the video […]

American Blinds alleges the Web search leader abuses trademarks by allowing ads of rival companies to appear when consumers search on that business. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — A U.S. judge Friday ordered Google Inc. to face a jury trial in a trademark infringement suit that targets the workings of the Web search leader’s main source […]

The DMK has convened an urgent meeting of its administrative committee in Chennai tomorrow in the backdrop of the crisis in the party’s first family. The crisis was triggered by a row on who should succeed M. Karunanidhi as the party leader, which led to an attack on a daily owned by Kalanidhi Maran, the […]

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi celebrated 50 years as a legislator at a special function in Chennai on Friday, Delhi buzzed with talk that his grand nephew, Union Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, would pay with his job for the controversy his newspaper caused. Ties between the DMK chief and Dayanidhi and elder brother Kalanidhi […]

Tamil Nadu is all dressed up today (May 11) marking the beginning of week long celebrations commemorating 50 years of Karunanidhi’s reign as a legislator. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi are expected to attend the celebrations in Chennai today. Just days before these celebrations began; an ugly spat broke out between […]