Jayalalithaa supports DMK’s Alagiri on using Tamil

September 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Saturday said she is "having a look at" the request of DMK ministers to answer questions in parliament in Tamil. Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister M.K.

September 2nd, 2009 CHENNAI - Former Tamil Nadu chief minister and the current Leader of the Opposition J. Jayalalithaa has demanded regularisation of 1,600 casual workers at Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd (TNPL), the country's second largest paper maker.

August 3rd, 2009 CHENNAI - The Tamil Nadu government should take steps to promote industrialisation in the southern districts of the state instead of staying focused only on Chennai and its surroundings, union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers M.K. Alagiri said here Monday.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran said Saturday that the victory of his party in the Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu showed that the Sri Lankan issue had failed to sway voters in the state. As the DMK proved pollsters wrong with a strong performance in a majority of Tamil Nadu's 39 Lok Sabha seats, Maran told NDTV TV: 'People (of Tamil Nadu) have given a clear mandate.' Asked if the emotive issue of Sri Lanka's military offensive against the Tamil Tigers had played a role in balloting, as many had expected, he said: 'That has not played a role.' AIADMK leader J.

May 16th, 2009 CHENNAI - AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa Saturday attributed the victory of the DMK-Congress combine in Tamil Nadu to the use of money power and called it 'a burial of democracy'.

May 15th, 2009 CHENNAI - Though all elections are crucial for a political party and its leader, the 15th Lok Sabha polls are rather special for the 61-year-old Iron Lady of Tamil Nadu, AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa.

May 13th, 2009 CHENNAI - All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) chief J. Jayalalithaa on Wednesday complained about poll rigging at a booth in Chennai.

May 8th, 2009 KARAIKUDI - Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday ruled out any post-poll tie up with the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu.

April 26th, 2009 CHENNAI - A week after Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief Karunanidhi's statement that he did not see Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief Prabhakaran as a terrorist, Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder S. Ramadoss on Sunday described the Tamil Tigers chief as a leader of a liberation movement not a terrorist.

April 25th, 2009 CHENNAI - Former Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Saturday slapped a legal notice on All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) chief and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa for alleging irregularities in uplinking of programmes of the satellite Television channel SUN TV, which is owned by his brother Kalanidhi Maran.

April 19th, 2009 CHENNAI - Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) founder V. Gopalswamy on Sunday urged the United Nations' intervention to solve the Sri Lankan crisis.

April 16th, 2009 CHENNAI - AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa will be setting a trend in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry by flying to all the 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in a helicopter.

April 15th, 2009 CHENNAI - All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) chief J. Jayalalithaa ruled out her being in the race to become the Prime Minister.

March 12th, 2009 CHENNAI - Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, who heads the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), accused United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and the Tamil Nadu Government for the genocidal attack on Tamils in Sri Lanka. Jayalalithaa expressed these views in Chennai on Monday while addressing the media at a spot where she and her party volunteers undertook hunger strike as a mark of protest against Sri Lankan atrocities on Tamilians.

March 12th, 2009 CHENNAI - AIADMK Chief and former Tamil Nadu chief Minister Jayalalithaa has decided to go on a hunger strike for the Lankan-Tamil cause. Her huger strike will start in Chennai on Monday from 9 am to 5 pm.