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  1. DMK’s day out on July 4 in Jail

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    / July 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    It is back to jail for the DMK-ites, most would snigger. The `fill the Jails’ agitation that will take place in Tamilnadu on July 4 is already giving jail staff nightmares, with very little space available. Usually in `taken into preventive custody’ demonstrations, those arrested are taken to the nearest...

  2. Jaya hikes NREGA wages in Tamilnadu

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    / June 23, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Tamilnadu will now receive 13 rupees more per  day as wages. The Jayalalithaa government has hiked employment daily wages from Rs 119 a day to Rs 132. The hike is expected to benefit more then 25 lakh workers under...

  3. Karunanidhi flexes his political muscles, retreats

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    / May 30, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The DMK would like the UPA to rollback, just like its leader, M Karunanidhi. DMK first decided to flex its political muscle by threatening to walk out of the UPA government over the petrol hike. Calling the hike “atrocious”, the DMK today spoke at length about the party voicing the...

  4. DMK to boycott Pudukkottai bypoll

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    / May 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Jayalalithaa has formed a committee that virtually consists of her entire cabinet for the Pudukkottai assembly bypoll. She need not have bothered for the DMK and PMK have decided to boycott the June 12 election. Karunanidhi has alleged that the poll date was announced after consultation between AIADMK and some...

  5. Alagiri vs Stalin

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    / April 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Out of power, the fight between Karunanidhi’s son is out in the open. After the DMK High command issues show cause notices to 17 of his supporters in Madurai for skipping a public meeting addressed by M K Stalin (who is also DMK treasurer), Alagiri questioned the legitimacy of the...

  6. No AIADMK, no DMK in Indian delegation to Lanka

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    / April 15, 2012 / Leave a comment
    DMK chief M Karunanidhi has pulled out his party representative out of the Parliamentary delegation scheduled to visit Sri Lanka from 16-22 April to assess the resettlement and political process in the island nation. There was no use of such visits and therefore DMK would not be part of the...

  7. `Tamil New Year’ back in April

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    / April 13, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The Tamil New Year is back in April, the first month of the Tamil solar calender called `Chithirai’. This follows Tamilnadu chief minister J Jayalalaithaa reversing the decision by her predecessor M Karunanidhi who had changed the Tamil New Year to mid-January, coinciding with Pongal, the harvest festival during the...

  8. Dr Ramadoss & Dr Ramadoss swallow bitter pill

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    / March 12, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Source : Whispers in Tamilnadu Tamil Nadu’s famous father-son doctor duo are in a serious mess. While the physician is facing the heat for his ‘mafia style’ murder hit, his doctor son is facing the heat of CBI for both the murder hit and his alleged underhand dealings as Health...

  9. Jaya goes green

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    / February 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Tamilnadu is going green on Jayalalithaa’s birthday today. The CM, clearly to avoid any controversy, has asked party cadre to launch an afforestation programme, by planting 64 lakh saplings. This, officials say will increase the state’s green cover from 21 to 30 per cent. Two lakh saplings will be planted...

  10. Jayalalithaa : The Godmother?

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    / February 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source: Whispers in Tamilnadu It looks like a scene straight out of Mario Puzo’s ‘God Father’. But unlike the Sicilian Mafia’s operations where muscle men are used to finish-off enemies, Amma’s uses the state machinery to silence her ‘friend turned foes’. Jayalalitha appears to be determined to decimate her enemies and...

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