Dmk Vs Aiadmk

Two political workers from Tamil Nadu have been murdered in less than 24 hours -- one of them in neighbouring Puducherry.

Both T.T.V Dhinakaran and Thanga Tamilselvan used to be in the AIADMK once, and it was Dhinakaran who had introduced the latter to Jayalalithaa and aunt Sasikala, who controlled the party apparatus back then.

The race to conclude seat-share deals in Tamil Nadu - where the political landscape is dominated by the ruling DMK and opposition AIADMK, with the Congress and BJP playing second fiddle - is picking up pace with the election now just weeks away.

As counting of votes polled in 38 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu begins at 8 AM on Thursday, all eyes will also be on the results of the bypolls to 22 Assembly seats, since the outcome will decide whether the K Palaniswami government is here to stay or not.

The death of Dravidian stalwart Muthuvel Karunanidhi has signalled the virtual end of personality-driven bi-polar politics in the state, dominated by charismatic individuals of arch-rivals DMK and AIADMK in the past five decades.

As turbulence hit the Tamil Nadu assembly over Chief Minister E Palaniswami's trust vote, a luxury resort near Chennai that reluctantly hosted political drama for the past 13 days quietly shut shop. The sign 'Resort Under Maintenance' was seen today outside the Golden Bay where over 100 lawmakers of the ruling AIADMK camped for nearly two weeks, se...

A free-for-all erupted inside the Tamil Nadu assembly on Saturday over a trust vote as aggressive demands for secret voting degenerated into chairs and tables being broken, mics being broken and the Speaker being manhandled.

MK Stalin of main opposition party the DMK has said his party will vote against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E K Palaniswami when he seeks a trust vote tomorrow in the state legislature to decide whether he will remain in charge. Mr Palaniswami, who is the proxy of AIADMK chief VK Sasikala now in jail, took oath as the state's 13th Chief Minister yest...

With the AIADMK split into two warring camps, MK Stalin of Tamil Nadu's main opposition party DMK met Governor C Vidyasagar Rao amid intense speculation that his party too could stake claim to form government in the state or back O Panneerselvam. Neither, said Mr Stalin, stating that he had met the governor to express concern that administration in...

As J Jayalalithaa took oath for the sixth time today as Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister, the main opposition party, the DMK, broke with tradition to attend the ceremony -and soon regretted it.

DMK chief M Karunanidhi, 92, appeared in a Chennai court this morning in a defamation case filed against him by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

DMK President M Karunanidhi today slammed arch rival AIADMK over its handling of the recent rains and subsequent deluge and warned that his party would soon "respond" to the ruling party "legally and through parliamentary democracy."

AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa had thrown an open challenge to the DMK and its leader Alagiri by organising a massive rally on his home base in Madurai on Monday. Today, the DMK hit back."I just assume a dog is barking at the sun," DMK leader and Union Chemicals & Fertilisers Minister Alagiri said.Madurai had been an AIADMK heartland for over two ...

Two political workers from Tamil Nadu have been murdered in less than 24 hours -- one of them in neighbouring Puducherry.

Both T.T.V Dhinakaran and Thanga Tamilselvan used to be in the AIADMK once, and it was Dhinakaran who had introduced the latter to Jayalalithaa and aunt Sasikala, who controlled the party apparatus back then.

The race to conclude seat-share deals in Tamil Nadu - where the political landscape is dominated by the ruling DMK and opposition AIADMK, with the Congress and BJP playing second fiddle - is picking up pace with the election now just weeks away.

As counting of votes polled in 38 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu begins at 8 AM on Thursday, all eyes will also be on the results of the bypolls to 22 Assembly seats, since the outcome will decide whether the K Palaniswami government is here to stay or not.

The death of Dravidian stalwart Muthuvel Karunanidhi has signalled the virtual end of personality-driven bi-polar politics in the state, dominated by charismatic individuals of arch-rivals DMK and AIADMK in the past five decades.

As turbulence hit the Tamil Nadu assembly over Chief Minister E Palaniswami's trust vote, a luxury resort near Chennai that reluctantly hosted political drama for the past 13 days quietly shut shop. The sign 'Resort Under Maintenance' was seen today outside the Golden Bay where over 100 lawmakers of the ruling AIADMK camped for nearly two weeks, se...

A free-for-all erupted inside the Tamil Nadu assembly on Saturday over a trust vote as aggressive demands for secret voting degenerated into chairs and tables being broken, mics being broken and the Speaker being manhandled.

MK Stalin of main opposition party the DMK has said his party will vote against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E K Palaniswami when he seeks a trust vote tomorrow in the state legislature to decide whether he will remain in charge. Mr Palaniswami, who is the proxy of AIADMK chief VK Sasikala now in jail, took oath as the state's 13th Chief Minister yest...

With the AIADMK split into two warring camps, MK Stalin of Tamil Nadu's main opposition party DMK met Governor C Vidyasagar Rao amid intense speculation that his party too could stake claim to form government in the state or back O Panneerselvam. Neither, said Mr Stalin, stating that he had met the governor to express concern that administration in...

As J Jayalalithaa took oath for the sixth time today as Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister, the main opposition party, the DMK, broke with tradition to attend the ceremony -and soon regretted it.

DMK chief M Karunanidhi, 92, appeared in a Chennai court this morning in a defamation case filed against him by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

DMK President M Karunanidhi today slammed arch rival AIADMK over its handling of the recent rains and subsequent deluge and warned that his party would soon "respond" to the ruling party "legally and through parliamentary democracy."

AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa had thrown an open challenge to the DMK and its leader Alagiri by organising a massive rally on his home base in Madurai on Monday. Today, the DMK hit back."I just assume a dog is barking at the sun," DMK leader and Union Chemicals & Fertilisers Minister Alagiri said.Madurai had been an AIADMK heartland for over two ...