

Friday 15 May '09
This elections, Tamil Nadu’s first family had fielded two candidates and four star campaigners for the DMK and its allies....Thursday 14 May '09
He has not threatened to cut off anyone’s hands, but he too is a Gandhi, contesting on a BJP ticket. All Mogamed Ali Jinnah seeks is a vote for himself, not a separate country for his community.Thursday
14 May '09Keeping her cards close to her chest, AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa said on Wednesday that she had “got feelers from many parties”....Wednesday
13 May '09When the results were announced on May 13, 2004, the alliance that swept Tamil Nadu went on to rule the country....Tuesday
12 May '09P Chidambaram has a problem with the bottomline in his home constituency, Sivaganga. From the author of the ‘outcome budget’ of 2005....Monday
11 May '09Like his ‘idol’, LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, MDMK general secretary Vaiko alias Y Gopalasamy is an elusive person...Monday
11 May '09Everyone in Ramanathapuram remembers Su Thirunavukkarasar. But perhaps they remember him a little too well for the comfort for this BJP candidate...Friday
8 May '09Madurai, the cultural capital of a state dominated by regional politics, has never had an MP from a Dravidian party.Friday
8 May '09Union Minister and DMK candidate T R Baalu began his campaign for re-election from Sriperumbudur talking about having created “history in road revolution...Saturday
2 May '09After finding itself hyphenated with the war in Sri Lanka, the Congress has got some fresh trouble in hand in the form of Tamil film directors....Friday
1 May '09Nearly two years ago, they wrote his political obituary when he fell out with DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi’s family....Thursday
30 April '09A speeding electric suburban commuter train, suspected to have been “hijacked” by unidentified persons, rammed a goods train early this morning....Tuesday
28 April '09When the AIADMK was preparing its manifesto a few weeks ago, all were eagerly waiting for a retort to DMK chief M Karunanidhi’s free TV scheme...Saturday
25 April '09From the President of India to a number of Union ministers, from a Dravidian icon to a popular movie star...Wednesday
22 April '09As Sri Lankan troops advanced on the last redoubt of the Tamil Tigers and the exodus of people trapped in a coastal strip crossed 62,000, a boatload of starving Tamil refugees landed on the Tamil Nadu coast on Tuesday.Friday
17 April '09The Opposition alliance, headed by the AIADMK, formally launched its campaign for the Lok Sabha elections...Friday
10 April '09Aiming to win the maximum number of seats in the coming Lok Sabha elections, the Opposition front finally set sail on...Friday
10 April '09The LTTE’s most vocal supporter here, MDMK leader Vaiko, has been the target of criticism from all around for his extreme stance.Thursday
9 April '09Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, which account for 40 seats in the Lok Sabha, will vote only in the last phase of the elections on May 13...Friday
3 April '09Ticket aspirants of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the lead partner of the UPA in Tamil Nadu.Thursday
2 April '09Three generations of the Karunanidhi clan are facing the ballot battle in Tamil Nadu, carrying forward a tradition that has survived almost four decadesTuesday
31 March '09The much-talked-about Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) and its leader Vijayakanth are yet to prove their worth at the national level....Monday
30 March '09Congress and DMK swapped a seat with each other, while J Gurunathan, an NSA detainee till recently, has found a place in PMK’s first list.Monday
30 March '09The Congress and the DMK gave finishing touches to their seat-sharing deal on Sunday by swapping a seat with each other...Saturday
28 March '09For a statistician, the consistent ‘front hopping’ of Dr S Ramadoss over the years would make his snapping of ties with the DMK predictable.