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Wife planned Azhagiri campaign course, diet

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....
Also ran: Nehru, Jinnah with help from Mr Harappa Mohenjodaro

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.
‘Feelers from many’, Jaya bides time

Thursday 14 May '09

Keeping her cards close to her chest, AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa said on Wednesday that she had “got feelers from many parties”....
New alliances, new story: no clear wave

Wednesday 13 May '09

When the results were announced on May 13, 2004, the alliance that swept Tamil Nadu went on to rule the country....
Chidambaram has a problem: too many red marks on balance sheet

Tuesday 12 May '09

P Chidambaram has a problem with the bottomline in his home constituency, Sivaganga. From the author of the ‘outcome budget’ of 2005....
Not just LTTE: In Vaiko land, fight is also about prices, caste

Monday 11 May '09

Like his ‘idol’, LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, MDMK general secretary Vaiko alias Y Gopalasamy is an elusive person...
Voters confused as lotus blooms on ‘two leaves’ here

Monday 11 May '09

Everyone in Ramanathapuram remembers Su Thirunavukkarasar. But perhaps they remember him a little too well for the comfort for this BJP candidate...
On Madurai poll trail, Azhagiri’s ‘reputation’ does the talking

Friday 8 May '09

Madurai, the cultural capital of a state dominated by regional politics, has never had an MP from a Dravidian party.
Calling himself rage of the roads, Baalu in gear

Friday 8 May '09

Union Minister and DMK candidate T R Baalu began his campaign for re-election from Sriperumbudur talking about having created “history in road revolution...
TN filmmakers script anti-Cong campaign

Saturday 2 May '09

After 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....
Vote for FDI King: the not-so quiet comeback of Dayanidhi Maran

Friday 1 May '09

Nearly two years ago, they wrote his political obituary when he fell out with DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi’s family....
Four killed in mystery train ‘hijack’ at Chennai station

Thursday 30 April '09

A speeding electric suburban commuter train, suspected to have been “hijacked” by unidentified persons, rammed a goods train early this morning....
Amma conceives a bigger, ‘rightist’ ADMK

Tuesday 28 April '09

When 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...
Where going south means aiming up

Saturday 25 April '09

From the President of India to a number of Union ministers, from a Dravidian icon to a popular movie star...
As Lanka closes in on Tigers, boat with refugees lands in TN

Wednesday 22 April '09

As 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.
Jaya, Left launch campaign telling TN it can decide country’s destiny

Friday 17 April '09

The Opposition alliance, headed by the AIADMK, formally launched its campaign for the Lok Sabha elections...
Jaya seals poll deal

Friday 10 April '09

Aiming to win the maximum number of seats in the coming Lok Sabha elections, the Opposition front finally set sail on...
Unlikely enemies: Vaiko booed by pro-Tamil activists

Friday 10 April '09

The LTTE’s most vocal supporter here, MDMK leader Vaiko, has been the target of criticism from all around for his extreme stance.
Tigers cornered in Lanka, TN parties make it a poll issue

Thursday 9 April '09

Tamil 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...
DMK interviews Baalu, Azhagiri

Friday 3 April '09

Ticket aspirants of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the lead partner of the UPA in Tamil Nadu.
More the merrier for Kalaignar

Thursday 2 April '09

Three generations of the Karunanidhi clan are facing the ballot battle in Tamil Nadu, carrying forward a tradition that has survived almost four decades
Why ‘Captain’ has taken centre stage in TN poll drama

Tuesday 31 March '09

The much-talked-about Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) and its leader Vijayakanth are yet to prove their worth at the national level....
Cong-DMK swap seats; Gurunathan in PMK list

Monday 30 March '09

Congress 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.
Cong, DMK swap seats, Jaya gives Vaiko one less

Monday 30 March '09

The Congress and the DMK gave finishing touches to their seat-sharing deal on Sunday by swapping a seat with each other...
Perpetually in power

Saturday 28 March '09

For a statistician, the consistent ‘front hopping’ of Dr S Ramadoss over the years would make his snapping of ties with the DMK predictable.
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