Release Ramadoss: Karunanidhi

Raising its pitch on the Lankan Tamils issue, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Tuesday alleged that the United States-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Commission was diluted on the basis of India's 'wholehearted acceptance and appreciation' of a report tabled by Colombo at the United Nations body. DMK president M Karunanidhi said Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and reports in a section of media had implied he had confined his demand to just passing a ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu state legislature presiding officer on Wednesday suspended opposition Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) members for the remaining days of the ongoing budget session. The suspension follows the mass eviction of the DMK members for a ...

Chennai, Mar. 25 (ANI): M. Karunanidhi-led Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Monday decided not to support the Congress-led UPA Government even from outside. The latest decision in this regard took place at the DMK's executive meet held here. ...

Intensifying his pressure on the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader M. Karunanidhi on Sunday unequivocally stated that his party would not continue in the alliance if the Centre failed to take ...

New Delhi, May 3 : The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Friday said they want Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take steps to ensure that the death sentence of three convicts - Santhan, Perarivalan and Murugan - involved in the assassination of ...