Amma Returns

VK Sasikala, late J Jayalalithaa's confidante would return to Tamil Nadu on February 7 from Bengaluru and a grand welcome from party cadres awaited her right from the state's border, Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary TTV Dhinakaran said in Madurai on Wednesday.

Amid the raging row over the decision of industry body AMMA to take him back, actor Dileep, facing a sexual assault case, today said he would not be an active worker of any organisation till his innocence was proved.

The row over the reinstatement of accused actor Dileep into an artistes body took a turn on Wednesday with four leading actresses, including the kidnap victim, resigning from the Association of Malayalam Movie Actors.

Sidelined AIADMK leader TTV Dinakaran, who was released on bail last week in a corruption case, stressed today that he remains number two in Tamil Nadu's ruling party and it is his "duty" to unite the party. To that end, Mr Dinakaran said, he would meet his aunt VK Sasikala at a jail in Bengaluru today, "not as a nephew but as her deputy" and start...

Anticipating a court verdict that could scupper her plans to become Chief Minister Of Tamil Nadu, VK Sasikala declared to lawmakers last night, "I have spent time in jails...I am ready to spend more time in any jail." In two visits to a resort near Chennai where ruling AIADMK lawmakers have been "hidden away" since Chief Minister O Panneerselvam em...

CPM chief Sitaram Yechury had lunch and a spent close to two hours on Sunday with former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. The veteran leader had been expelled from the party in July 2008 for refusing to quit the Speaker's post as the Left withdrew support to the UPA government over the Indo-US nuclear deal.

J Jayalalithaa, a stickler for time, stepped out of her Poes Garden residence in Chennai at 10.37 am today for her swearing in as Chief Minister at an auditorium six km away.

Just five minutes from the university auditorium where J Jayalalithaa will take oath on Saturday to return as Tamil Nadu's chief minister, there was a night-long party on the beach.

VK Sasikala, late J Jayalalithaa's confidante would return to Tamil Nadu on February 7 from Bengaluru and a grand welcome from party cadres awaited her right from the state's border, Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary TTV Dhinakaran said in Madurai on Wednesday.

Amid the raging row over the decision of industry body AMMA to take him back, actor Dileep, facing a sexual assault case, today said he would not be an active worker of any organisation till his innocence was proved.

The row over the reinstatement of accused actor Dileep into an artistes body took a turn on Wednesday with four leading actresses, including the kidnap victim, resigning from the Association of Malayalam Movie Actors.

Sidelined AIADMK leader TTV Dinakaran, who was released on bail last week in a corruption case, stressed today that he remains number two in Tamil Nadu's ruling party and it is his "duty" to unite the party. To that end, Mr Dinakaran said, he would meet his aunt VK Sasikala at a jail in Bengaluru today, "not as a nephew but as her deputy" and start...

Anticipating a court verdict that could scupper her plans to become Chief Minister Of Tamil Nadu, VK Sasikala declared to lawmakers last night, "I have spent time in jails...I am ready to spend more time in any jail." In two visits to a resort near Chennai where ruling AIADMK lawmakers have been "hidden away" since Chief Minister O Panneerselvam em...

CPM chief Sitaram Yechury had lunch and a spent close to two hours on Sunday with former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. The veteran leader had been expelled from the party in July 2008 for refusing to quit the Speaker's post as the Left withdrew support to the UPA government over the Indo-US nuclear deal.

J Jayalalithaa, a stickler for time, stepped out of her Poes Garden residence in Chennai at 10.37 am today for her swearing in as Chief Minister at an auditorium six km away.

Just five minutes from the university auditorium where J Jayalalithaa will take oath on Saturday to return as Tamil Nadu's chief minister, there was a night-long party on the beach.