Another former DMK minister arrested
January 23rd, 2012 - 11:49 am ICT by IANS
Chennai, Jan 23 (IANS) Tamil Nadu police Monday arrested former DMK minister M.P. Saminathan following a land grab complaint against him, officials said.Saminathan, former minister for highways in the erstwhile ... Read more...
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Stalin complains of uneasiness, undergoes angiogram (Lead)
December 24th, 2011 - 12:14 am ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 23 (IANS) DMK treasurer and former Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister M.K. Stalin underwent an angiogram test at a private hospital here Friday after he complained of uneasiness.Stalin, ... Read more...
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Stalin complains of discomfort, in hospital
December 23rd, 2011 - 7:09 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 23 (IANS) DMK treasurer and former Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister M.K. Stalin was taken to a private hospital here Friday after he complained of discomfort.
Stalin, 58, ... Read more...
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Mullaperiyar: Special session of Tamil Nadu assembly Thursday
December 14th, 2011 - 11:38 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 14 (IANS) A special session of the Tamil Nadu assembly will be held Thursday to pass a resolution that the state will not give up its rights over ... Read more...
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Hansika turns gangster for ‘Vettai Mannan’
December 14th, 2011 - 4:15 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai Dec 14 (IANS) After playing a village belle in Tamil movie "Velayudham", Hansika Motwani has turned gangster for her next movie "Vettai Mannan"."I am playing a character not done ... Read more...
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Kerala scheming to convert Tamil Nadu into a desert: Karunanidhi
December 12th, 2011 - 8:16 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 12 (IANS) DMK president and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi Monday alleged that Kerala is trying to convert the state into a "Sahara Desert" by enacting ... Read more...
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Don’t play with people’s lives over dam: Stalin to Kerala
December 12th, 2011 - 1:02 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 12 (IANS) DMK leader M.K. Stalin Monday asked Kerala not to play with the lives of people of Tamil Nadu by "false propaganda" about the safety of the ... Read more...
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Stalin may face action for defaming Jayalalithaa: Minister
December 4th, 2011 - 7:19 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 4 (IANS) A Tamil Nadu minister said Sunday that DMK treasurer and former deputy chief minister M.K. Stalin could be prosecuted for levelling false land grab charges against ... Read more...
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Kanimozhi back in Chennai, gets rousing reception
December 3rd, 2011 - 6:20 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai/New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Five days after she got bail in the 2G spectrum scam, DMK MP Kanimozhi Saturday reached Chennai to a rousing reception as hundreds of party ... Read more...
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DMK’s top brass face land grab charge
December 2nd, 2011 - 6:07 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 2 (IANS) After arresting many DMK leaders and former ministers on charges of illegally appropriating prime property, Tamil Nadu Police are now zeroing in on party president M. ... Read more...
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Stalin, son booked for land grab
December 1st, 2011 - 11:52 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 1 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Police Thursday said they have registered a land grab case against former deputy chief minister M.K. Stalin, his son Udayanidhi Stalin and four others ... Read more...
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17 million kids dewormed in Bihar
November 11th, 2011 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) In one of the largest deworming programmes in India, an international NGO in collaboration with Bihar's health department has reached out to 17 million school ... Read more...
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Bankers boycott Mario Batali over his Hitler comment
November 10th, 2011 - 11:00 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Washington, Nov 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Celebrity chef Mario Batali has come under fire for comparing bankers to Adolf Hitler and Stalin. The comparison was not taken lightly by the financial institutions and ... Read more...
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Karunanidhi upset at denial of bail to Kanimozhi
November 3rd, 2011 - 7:34 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Nov 3 (IANS) Gloom hung over DMK president M. Karunanidhi's residence here Thursday, much like the dark and overcast sky outside, as the former chief minister's daughter Kanimozhi was ... Read more...
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Norms being flouted in Tamil Nadu civic polls: DMK
October 17th, 2011 - 3:29 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Oct 17 (IANS) The DMK Monday charged the AIADMK-led Tamil Nadu government of not complying with the Madras High Court directive on installation of web cameras in polling booths ... Read more...
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DMK boycotts budget over arrest of party leaders (Lead)
August 4th, 2011 - 4:06 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Aug 4 (IANS) The opposition DMK Thursday boycotted the first budget of the AIADMK government in the Tamil Nadu assembly to protest the arrest of four more party leaders ... Read more...
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Stalin, 40,000 protesting DMK activists detained (Lead)
August 1st, 2011 - 3:52 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Aug 1 (IANS) DMK leader M.K. Stalin and around 40,000 of his party cadres were Monday detained while staging protests in various parts of Tamil Nadu. The former deputy ... Read more...
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Stalin, 40,000 protesting DMK activists detained
August 1st, 2011 - 3:28 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Aug 1 (IANS) DMK leader M.K. Stalin and around 40,000 of his party cadres were Monday detained while staging protests in various parts of Tamil Nadu. The former deputy ... Read more...
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Stalin detained, DMK protests across Tamil Nadu (Lead)
July 30th, 2011 - 6:05 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, July 30 (IANS) DMK leader and former deputy chief minister M.K. Stalin was briefly detained Saturday at Tiruvarur in Tamil Nadu during a protest. His detention came on the ... Read more...
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Tie-up with Congress stays but no new ministers: DMK (Fourth Lead)
July 25th, 2011 - 12:24 am ICT by IANS
Coimbatore, July 24 (IANS) The DMK Sunday announced it would not nominate
representatives for berths in the union cabinet left vacant after its tainted ministers resigned, but the alliance with the ... Read more...
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Tie-up with Congress stays but no new ministers: DMK (Third Lead)
July 24th, 2011 - 11:13 pm ICT by IANS
Coimbatore, July 24 (IANS) The DMK Sunday announced it would not nominate representatives for berths in the union cabinet left vacant after its tainted ministers resigned, but the alliance with ... Read more...
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DMK meet ends; silence on cabinet slots, Congress tie-up (Second Lead)
July 24th, 2011 - 10:48 pm ICT by IANS
Coimbatore, July 24 (IANS) The curtains came down Sunday on the two-day executive and general council meetings of Tamil Nadu's opposition DMK here with the party remaining silent on the ... Read more...
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DMK moots filling cabinet posts, alliance
July 24th, 2011 - 2:26 pm ICT by IANS
Coimbatore, July 24 (IANS) A day after its succession rivalry became apparent, the politically-battered DMK Sunday again met here to discuss the electoral debacle of May, continuation of alliance with ... Read more...
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DMK will recapture power, says Karunanidhi (Lead)
July 24th, 2011 - 12:37 am ICT by IANS
Coimbatore, July 23 (IANS) The DMK cannot be destroyed and it will capture power again in the state, party president and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi said here ... Read more...
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DMK’s executive council starts deliberations
July 23rd, 2011 - 9:53 pm ICT by IANS
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), July 23 (IANS) Tamil Nadu's opposition DMK Saturday began its executive council meeting, deliberating on the road ahead for the party after its defeat in the April ... Read more...
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Stalin’s election challenged in court
June 27th, 2011 - 10:06 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, June 27 (IANS) AIADMK party leader Saidai Duraisamy Monday filed a petition in the Madras High Court seeking to declare null and void the election of his rival and ... Read more...
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2G case: Morani appears in court
May 24th, 2011 - 12:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Cineyug Films' founder Karim Morani, named as co-conspirator in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, made his first appearance in the special Central Bureau of Investigation ... Read more...
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Stalin wins from Kolathur
May 14th, 2011 - 12:24 am ICT by IANS
Chennai, May 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin was Friday declared elected from Kolathur constituency.
Stalin defeated AIADMK's Saidai Duraisamy with a margin of 2,423 votes.Stalin ... Read more...
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People have rested me: Karunanidhi
May 13th, 2011 - 11:34 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, May 13 (IANS) With the DMK routed in the 2011 assembly elections, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and the party's president M. Karunanidhi Friday said the people have given him ... Read more...
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Counting at Stalin’s constituency starts again
May 13th, 2011 - 11:12 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, May 13 (IANS) Counting of votes in Tamil Nadu's Kolathur constituency from where Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin is contesting resumed after being suspended for sometime, officials said FridayIt ... Read more...
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Karunanidhi wins, son Stalin trails
May 13th, 2011 - 7:31 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, May 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu's outgoing chief minister and DMK president M. Karunanidhi has won from his native town of Tiruvarur, defeating his AIADMK rival Rajendran.Karunanidhi polled over 109,014 ... Read more...
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AIADMK sweeps Tamil Nadu, DMK stunned (Second Lead)
May 13th, 2011 - 5:23 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, May 13 (IANS) After five years in the wilderness, AIADMK's star and former chief minister Jayaram Jayalalithaa stormed to power Friday for a third time in Tamil Nadu, ... Read more...
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Achuthanandan: Stalinist, but a man of the masses
May 13th, 2011 - 5:06 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, May 13 (IANS) He was never the darling of party bosses. But down-to-earth Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, who began life working in a small textile shop, was the only ... Read more...
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Karunanidhi, Jayalalithaa lead
May 13th, 2011 - 2:12 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, May 13 (IANS) The chiefs of Tamil Nadu's biggest rival parties - Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and leader of the opposition J. Jayalalithaa - were leading in their ... Read more...
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DMK to take legal action in 2G spectrum case
April 27th, 2011 - 2:13 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, April 27 (IANS) Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK Wednesday decided to take suitable legal action to establish the truth in the 2G spectrum scam in which Kanimozhi, Rajya Sabha member ... Read more...
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