Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi today said the law and order situation in the State was satisfactory. Addressings at the District Collectors and Police Officer’s Conference at the Secretariate here, the Chief Minister said it was the duty of the Police Officials and District Collectors to ensure that Tamil Nadu remained a peaceful state. […]

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday intensified its campaign against Pratibha Patil, launching a website and releasing a booklet on its allegations on the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) presidential candidate. As part of the campaign, the party summoned its most articulate and acceptable face, party general secretary Arun Jaitley, to repackage and publicise the […]

  DMDK candidate stood third with 21,272 votes. Twenty-five others lost their deposit JUBILATION: Congress candidate K.S.K. Rajendran (right), who won the Madurai West Assembly constituency byelection being greeted by M.K. Azhagiri, elder son of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, in Madurai on Friday. The Congress wrested the Madurai West Assembly constituency in the byelection with […]

Seated between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) candidate Pratibha Patil Saturday filed her nomination to fight the presidential election in which she will be pitted against Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. The 73-year-old former Rajasthan governor was in a yellow silk saree with red border as she […]

The feverish last-lap campaign to Madurai West bypoll is peaking as top leaders and the allies of the two main political parties ? the DMK and the AIADMK have taken to the nook and cranny of the tense town. Besides political heavyweights, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) N Gopalswami also arrived at Madurai in the afternoon, […]

  Tamil Nadu may lose the distinction of having one of its citizens as India’s President. But it may acquire its first Vice President if Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has his way. The chances of A P J Abdul Kalam, who hails from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, getting a second term in the Rashtrapati Bhavan […]

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M Karunanidhi today flayed the newly launched United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) for describing as ”joke”, the UPA-Left parties’ choice of Ms Pratibha Patil as its Presidential candidate. By ridiculing the choice of Ms Patil ”as a joke played on the nation by Congress President Sonia Gandhi”, the […]

Sukumaran, joint secretary of Salem district MGR Mandram died in the prison. AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa today handed over a solatium of Rs 50,000 to the family of AIADMK activist M Sukumaran who died in the central prison here yesterday.Sukumaran, joint secretary of Salem district MGR Mandram, was arrested and sent to judicial custody along with […]

The DMK government in Tamil Nadu was “compelling” the AIADMK to approach court, seeking to quash the demolition order served on its party headquarters here, to help multi-storied commercial complexes having unauthorised constructions, AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa said today. The Supreme Court’s verdict on demolition of unauthorised constructions applied only to multi-storied commercial complexes and […]

A nursing college owner flashes photographs of Karnataka legislator Renukacharya kissing her and accuses him of sexual exploitation A sex scandal involving a party legislator, infighting, fear of split and distinct possibility of coalition partner Janata Dal (Secular) refusing to transfer power are giving the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders sleepless nights ahead of […]

State Women’s Commission (SWC) will commence its inquiry on June four into the complaint of alleged sexual harassment lodged by nurse Jayalakshmi against BJP MLA Renukacharya, its top official said on Wedenesday. “The commission will summon the witnesses adduced by Jayalakshmi in support of her charges of sexual harassment”, Chairperson of SWC, Pramila Nesargi told, […]

When chief minister M. Karunanidhi announced the DMK decision opting for his poet daughter Kanimozhi as one of the two nominees of the party for the Rajya Sabha, he brought to close one of the longest political speculations in recent times in Tamil Nadu. A well-known public face albeit on the Tamil literary-cultural platform, Ms […]