The Tamil Nadu assembly session that commences Wednesday at Fort St. George may be the last one to be held in the current premises.
The government is constructing a new secretariat in the centre of the city and Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi wants to hold the budget session in the new complex.
Karunanidhi has hinted at [...]
Chennai, Dec 31 (IANS) The World Classical Tamil Conference to be held in Coimbatore next year will come out with concrete measures on spreading the Tamil language across the globe, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said Thursday.
Speaking to reporters here after chairing a consultative meeting on the modalities of holding the Tamil conference, he said: ‘This [...]
Nagapattinam (Tamil Nadu), Dec.26 (ANI): Silent prayers were held and survivors and relatives of Tsunami victims on the occasion of its fifth anniversary paid floral tributes to the souls of the deceased, who fell victim to Tsunami [...]
Chennai, Dec 23 (IANS) Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK Wednesday won by a comfortable margin in two assembly constituencies where by-polls were held Dec 19, the Election Commission said.
Anita Radhakrishnan, the party’s candidate for the Tiruchendur assembly seat secured more than 46,000 votes over AIADMK rival while DMK’s Vandavasi candidate Kamalakannan won with a margin of [...]
Chennai, Dec 18 (IANS) AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa Friday demanded that the central government withdraw the Marine Fisheries (Regulation and Management) Bill to protect the livelihood of fishermen.
In a statement here, she said: ‘Destroying the livelihood of the Indian fishermen to enable exports to Europe is certainly unacceptable. The government should realise that welfare [...]
Chennai, Dec 15 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government Tuesday finalised 17 suppliers for sourcing four million 14-inch colour television for its free TV scheme at Rs.2,061 per set, totalling around Rs.8.24 billion.
The all party legislator committee under the chairmanship of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi opened the price bids of the 17 bidders at the State [...]
Chennai, Dec 15 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government Tuesday set up a welfare board for workers of the film world, including workers of the small screen, to extend welfare measures to them.
The welfare board will be headed by the information minister and its members will include movie producers, actors, directors and representatives of workers.
The setting [...]
Chennai, Dec 14 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi Monday requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to set up the proposed Indian National Institute of Epigraphy in the state.
In a letter to Singh, Karunanidhi, appreciating the government’s decision to set up a national level institute for epigraphy, said: ‘The government of Tamil Nadu is willing to [...]
Chennai, Dec 14 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Monday declared that the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) and its two newly formed subsidiaries will not be privatised.
Launching the Tamil Nadu Transmission Corp here, he said: ‘As declared earlier, on no account the three power utilities will be privatised. The formation of the three [...]
Chennai, Dec 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Sunday criticised the manner in which the central government handled the Telangana issue which has resulted in severe protests and violence in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.
Responding to a reporter’s question on the central government’s handling of the Telangana issue, he said: ‘From this, one can understand [...]
Chennai, Dec 10 (IANS) All the 17 accused for burning three employees of the Tamil daily Dinakaran in the Madurai office in May 2007 have been set free by a Tamil Nadu court as the key witnesses turned hostile.
The accused were acquitted by the principal district sessions court Wednesday.
Except for one police official who [...]
Chennai, Dec 9 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Wednesday said Sri Lanka is contravening the conditions laid down in the agreement transferring Katchatheevu to the island nation.
Referring to the Union External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna’s statement that the transfer of Katchatheevu is a closed chapter, Karunanidhi said: ‘Even if one agrees to that [...]
New Delhi, Dec. 9 (ANI): UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi is celebrating her 63rd birthday on Wednesday, and several congress leaders reached her residence to greet her personally on the occasion.
Among those who visited her residence were -Union Ministers, P Chidambaram and A K Antony, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Chief Ministers of several Congress-ruled [...]
Chennai, Dec 9 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has asked his party workers and supporters to wait till June to know about his retirement plans.
M Karunanidhi has asked his supporters to be serene till June after which he will take a decision to continue as the Chief Minister of the State or hand [...]
Chennai, Dec 6 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi took the state and his DMK party by surprise Saturday announcing his retirement post World Classical Tamil Conference to be held in Coimbatore in June.
Addressing a meeting organised by community organisation Arundathi Makkal Katchi, 85-year-old Karunanidhi said: ‘After the construction of new assembly complex, inaugurating [...]
Chennai, Dec 3 (IANS) Nine children and their teacher were killed Thursday when their school van plunged into a deep pond in Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam district.
The van, which was carrying 25 children from the Devi Nursery School, slipped off the road and fell into a 15 ft deep pond in Katripullam village near Vedaranyam, about [...]
Chennai, Nov 28 (IANS) Three people have been arrested for throwing petrol bombs at the house of former union minister and Congress leader E.V.K.S. Elangovan here Friday night, police said.
The attack came after Elangovan Friday removed posters and banners eulogising the late Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief V. Prabhakaran at Erode.
Elangovan has charged [...]
Bangalore, Nov 22 (IANS) Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat Sunday criticised the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) for fuelling a language row by insisting on speaking only in Marathi even in the legislature.
‘At a time when the country is facing so many problems, it is unfortunate that political parties like the MNS and [...]
Chennai, Nov 14 (IANS) Opposition leader J. Jayalalithaa Saturday demanded the Tamil Nadu government speed up relief efforts in the Nilgiri district and increase the compensation amount to the victims of landslides triggered by heavy rains which claimed 43 lives, destroyed hundreds of homes and standing crops.
‘The Nilgiri district experienced landslides in more than 500 [...]
Chennai, Nov 13 (IANS) Facing flak from the opposition after Tamil Nadu agreed in the Supreme Court to refer the Mullaiperiyar dam row to a five member constitution bench, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Friday hoped the saying ‘justice delayed is justice denied’ would not come true for his state.
‘The state had approached the Supreme Court [...]
Chennai, Nov 8 (IANS) Tamil Nadu will see more showers in the next few days, the weatherman said Sunday as incessent rains threw normal life out of gear and claimed 15 lives.
Speaking to reporters, S.V. Ramanan, director of the regional meteorological department, said: ‘The low pressure area in Bay of Bengal near Kanyakumari has moved [...]
Coimbatore, Nov 6 (IANS) The government will open a Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), a centre for agricultural training, in each of the newly created districts across the country, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said here Friday.
Speaking at the fourth national conference of KVKs, the minister said one centre each would be set up in the [...]
Chennai, Nov 3 (ANI): Tamil Nadu government has said that it will review the living condition of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in the state.
Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi held a high-level meeting here on Monday to discuss the issue.
The development comes in the [...]
Colombo, Nov 1 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has been urged by a Tamil politician here to intervene and help secure the Tamils a
political framework on the lines of Indian federalism.
Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) president V. Anandasangaree has said
that Karunanidhi needed to muster the support of everyone in Tamil Nadu to back [...]
Chennai, Oct 29 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi Thursday alleged that the Kerala government headed by V.S. Achuthanandan was seeking political mileage through the Mullaiperiyar dam issue.
Reiterating that Kerala was repeatedly violating democratic principles and law of the land on the dam issue, Karunanidhi said: ‘Even as the Supreme Court had ordered raising of [...]
Chennai, Oct 29(IANS) AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa Thursday said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should hold ‘deeper’ probe into the alleged spectrum scam rather than merely raiding a few offices of the telecom department.
‘CBI has to investigate deeper (communications minister A.) Raja’s role in the spectrum allocation scam,’ Jayalalithaa, also leader of opposition [...]
Mumbai, Oct 24 (IANS) Expressing anguish over his party’s poll defeat, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has accused Maharashtrians of betrayal in the assembly elections. ‘Where did we go wrong? What were our crimes? Who did we harm? We are really shocked…’ he has said.
Continuing to express his pain for the second consecutive day in [...]
Chennai, Oct 20 (IANS) Coming down heavily on the Kerala government for its stand on the Mullaiperiyar dam, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi Tuesday said people would start wondering which state is ruling the country.
In a statement issued here Tuesday, he said: ‘If the Kerala government thumps its chest for trampling upon the law of [...]
Chennai, Oct 20 (IANS) Tamil Nadu’s major opposition party AIADMK Tuesday announced it would boycott the state government organised World Classical Tamil Conference scheduled to be held in Coimbatore next January.
In a statement issued here Tuesday, party general secretary J. Jayalalithaa said Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had announced at a conference of district collectors exactly [...]
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) Justice B.N. Agrawal, the second senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, retires Thursday after nine eventful years in the apex court, during which he often hit the headlines for his stern remarks against the high and the mighty.
Known to be media-shy, Justice Agrawal has a reputation of being a no-nonsense [...]
