Jayalalithaa completes two years in office as CM

CHENNAI/NEW DELHI Two days after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam quit United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday searched the house of party leader MK Stalin in Chennai, sparking a political storm with ...

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief M Karunanidhi on Friday expressed his surprise over the draft Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report on 2G scam that blamed former Telecom Minister A Raja of 'misleading' Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and said it was ...

Renewing his demand for abolishing death penalty, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi on Saturday made a fresh pitch for a state cabinet meeting to adopt a resolution recommending commutation of the death sentence awarded to three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. "Our stand is that capital punishment should be abolished and should be taken off the law book," Karunanidhi said, recalling his remarks that the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan should be ...

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M. Karunanidhi has disputed a report published in The Hindu that said party treasurer M.K. Stalin threatened to quit his position if the DMK did not snap ties with the United Progressive Alliance. In a statement here on ...

When Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi and Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam leader Vijayakanth met briefly at the funeral of media baron and Dina Thanthi managing director Sivanthi Adithan, the speculation began about a possible future ...

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam President M. Karunanidhi categorically stated that his party would not continue in the UPA alliance at the Centre if India does not further strengthen the US resolution...

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M. Karunanidhi on Sunday criticised External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid for his observations on the resolution to be moved in the United Nations Human Rights Council against Sri Lanka and accused him of siding with ...

Apparently, there is a gang in Madurai that is impersonating Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader MK Alagiri and his family members and cheating people. DMK urban district treasurer Misa M. Pandian was one of the latest to fall prey to the ...

Following the fallout with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Congress president Sonia Gandhi told outgoing fertiliser minister M K Alagiri that she was taken by surprise after the DMK withdrew support from the United Progressive Alliance. "We expected your father (DMK chief M Karunanidhi) to speak to the prime minister or to me before withdrawing support,” she told Alagiri. This conversation happened at the Prime Minister’s Office inside Parliament House, when Alagiri went to hand over ...