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Raj TV goes off air on Raja turf

Monday 11 June '07

A Piquant situation prevailed in Union Communication Minister A Raja’s Perambalur constituency last week. Viewers could not watch Raj TV...
After students’ stir, new houses by June 20

Saturday 9 June '07

After a kidney racket, it is now an agitation by school children, aged six years to 16 years, that is creating unrest in Tsunami Nagar in North Chennai.
Jaya could lose seat: Karunanidhi

Thursday 7 June '07

Chief Minister M Karunanidhi today said AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa could invite disqualification from the Election Commission
Upset with VS, Chennai Keralites boycott function

Wednesday 6 June '07

In a bid to appease some Malayalees in Chennai upset over plans to build a guest house with star facilities rather than a multi-facility cultural centre as promised
TN first family to run channel by remote

Tuesday 5 June '07

This time, M Karunanidhi has the remote firmly in his hands. Wary after the messy split with Sun TV, run by his grandnephews
Notice to HQ: Jaya vows to wipe out DMK

Monday 4 June '07

Furious with a show-cause notice issued by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA), which wants to demolish demolishing certain portions of her party...
MK-Jaya conflict at Kodanadu

Saturday 2 June '07

The standoff between the DMK Government and former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa
Soul Curry

Sunday 3 June '07

Tucked down a service lane in Chennai, far from the world of swanky fast-food joints, is a nondescript restaurant. Here, the guest is god and the waiters are doctors and engineers who work for free. eye checks out the recipe for spiritual food
Film whips up sympathy for Mahdani

Friday 1 June '07

Even as judgment day nears for the case relating to the serial blasts that ripped Coimbatore in February 1998 killing 59 and leaving nearly a hundred maimed or injured
Vajpayee seeks Jaya support for Shekhawat

Thursday 31 May '07

Former Prime Minister and BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee today urged AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa, to extend her support to NDA’s presidential candidate, Bhairon Singh...
South India’s power family sits pretty

Thursday 31 May '07

A nasty power struggle, violence and three deaths apart, the family of Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi continues to firmly hold the reins of power in Tamil Nadu.
DMK nominates Kanimozhi for RS

Sunday 27 May '07

Chief Minister and DMK President M Karunanidhi today put an end to speculations about his daughter Kanimozhi’s initiation into politics by announcing her nomination for a Rajya Sabha...
Most wanted American paedophile held in TN

Thursday 24 May '07

After a year-long manhunt, Alan Jay Horowitz, an American paedophile, wanted by the Interpol and listed among the 100 most wanted men in New York..
For better or verse: Karunanidhi’s new war cry

Wednesday 23 May '07

If the media went to town, barely mincing words to describe the nasty split in the DMK’s first family, then Chief Minister and party supremo M Karunanidhi has his own subtle way of conveying the message — through poetry.
Chennai to have new airport, old one to get bigger

Wednesday 23 May '07

Taking the consent of all the political parties barring the AIADMK, the Tamil Nadu government today announced that it would take up work for the modernisation of Chennai airport in an extent of 1066 acres after full rehabilitation of 947 affected families.
Aiyar tries to save his seat, cushion

Wednesday 23 May '07

For Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, drawing flak for his critical remarks against his own government during a television interview must have been the least of his problems. Back home in Tamil Nadu
DMK feud: Kalaignar TV to take on Sun TV

Tuesday 22 May '07

The battlelines are clearly drawn. The feud in the DMK’s first family took a turn for the worse with news that a new television channel...
Crime Branch closes case against Karunanidhi

Monday 21 May '07

Even as curtains came down on grand jubilee celebrations of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi as legislator, the state Crime Branch-CID quietly closed the ‘mini-flyover case’
TN fishermen recount horror of captivity

Sunday 20 May '07

Eleven Tamil Nadu fishermen who went missing from near the Rameswaram coast in mid-March today said they had been abducted by the
Star on ascent

Sunday 20 May '07

How do I eave behind the security of your stables to walk into the unknown
Family feud shifts focus to 2003 DMK murder

Saturday 19 May '07

Even as an ugly feud in the DMK’s first family grabbed media headlines, in a quiet development, the Supreme Court stayed trial in a murder case in the Madurai Sessions court.
New DMK Minister for Centre: wife of ‘don’ killed in encounter

Wednesday 16 May '07

31-year-old Radhika Selvi won last Lok Sabha elections by 1.8 lakh votes, campaigning with her baby, seeking justice for her husband
Karuna scores over Jaya, TN to get new secretariat

Wednesday 16 May '07

It Had been Jayalalithaa’s dream to build a new hi-tech secretariat with tall dome structures, special architectural features with ancillary buildings, amenities and facilities, a helipad, the works...
Out goes Maran, in comes Raja

Tuesday 15 May '07

Environment and Forests Minister A Raja is set to be the DMK replacement for Dayanidhi Maran as the Minister of Communications and Information Technology.
First sign: Karuna wife shed stake in Sun Group

Tuesday 15 May '07

Much before the family feud spilled on to the streets of Madurai, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi announced his family’s
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