Final poll rolls for Madurai (West) today
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 [...]
Dayanidhi Maran’s tenure saw Indian telecom’s growth blossom
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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 as a [...]
Why did Maran have to resign?
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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 M.K. Kanimozhi [...]
Dayanidhi Maran, I won’t ask for reinstatement
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 manâ€.
Addressing a press conference here, Maran claimed that United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were “a [...]
Meeting on DMK crisis
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 DMK [...]
Union Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran could lose Cabinet post
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 Maran [...]
Celebration for Karunanidhi
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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 the [...]
Karunanidhi wants CBI probe into violence
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi yesterday sought a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the attack on a newspaper office in Madurai by supporters of his son Azhagiri that left three people dead.
Angry mobs set on fire the office of the Dinakaran paper Wednesday after the newspaper published a poll favouring Karunanidhi’s younger [...]
Two arrested for attack on Dinakaran office
Two persons have been arrested in connection with the attack on the Dinakaran office in Madurai on Wednesday in which three employees of the Tamil daily were killed.
Those arrested are `Tiger Pandi` and Badsha and an FIR has been registered against the “identified” persons involved in the attack, police said.
They said five special teams had [...]
In Madurai, a day of political emotions ablaze
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PULLING OUT THE STOPS: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam cadres led by Madurai Mayor G. Thenmozhi (marked by a circle) at the gates of the offices of Dinakaran and Sun TV in Madurai. DMK Corporation Councillor A. Manickam holds up a burning copy of Dinakaran.
It was initially seen as an internal issue of the ruling Dravida Munnetra [...]
