No privilege motion against two Tamil Nadu legislators

September 9th, 2009 RANCHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may bring a privilege motion against Home Minister P. Chidmabaram during the winter session for "misleading parliament" over holding assembly elections in Jharkhand, party leader Yashwant Sinha said Wednesday.

July 24th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Kerala assembly Friday passed unanimously a resolution demanding that the central government take the lead in resolving the Mullaperiyar dam issue, allowing the state government to construct a new dam and decommissioning the existing one. Kerala and Tamil Nadu have been at loggerheads over the present Mullaperiyar dam built under an agreement signed in 1886 between the then maharaja of Travancore and the British administration.

July 20th, 2009 CHENNAI - A privilege motion moved by Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister Arcot N. Veeraswami against Left members Sivapunniam and K.

July 15th, 2009 CHENNAI - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Wednesday said the state government is interested in introducing a common syllabus in schools.

July 3rd, 2009 CHENNAI - The Tamil Nadu Assembly Friday saw a heated debate when Congress Legislature Party leader D. Sudharsanam threatened to protest outside the house of Minister Suba Thangavelan over the plight of slum dwellers who face eviction.

June 12th, 2009 CHENNAI - A meeting of Congress leaders and legislators Saturday to discuss demanding of ministerial berths in the Tamil Nadu government has been postponed, a party source said Friday. The Congress gives outside support to the ruling DMK in the state.

June 5th, 2009 CHENNAI - The PMK, which had dumped the Congress before the Lok Sabha elections to join hands with the AIADMK, is now supporting the Tamil Nadu unit of the Congress in its demand for ministerial berths in the state government. PMK leader S.

May 16th, 2009 CHENNAI - The counting of votes cast for the 15th Lok Sabha polls began at 8 a.m. Saturday in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

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.

April 25th, 2009 CHENNAI - At least 25 people were arrested Saturday in Tamil Nadu for attempting to burn the Indian flag while protesting the killing of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka, police said. The 18 people held in Chennai and seven in Thanjavur district, 300 km south of here, belonged to various Indian Tamil extremist factions associated with Tamil nationalist leader P.

April 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Thursday nominated Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar to contest the Lok Sabha election from Sivaganga and Mayiladuthurai in Tamil Nadu respectively as it released its list of candidates for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

April 7th, 2009 PUDUCHERRY - The PMK Tuesday withdrew support to the Congress government in the union territory of Puducherry, Raj Bhavan sources said. PMK chief M.

March 30th, 2009 CHENNAI - Buoyed by their seat-sharing agreement for the Lok Sabha polls, the AIADMK and the PMK are setting their eyes on bringing down the DMK-led ministry in Tamil Nadu and the Congress government in the neighbouring union territory of Puducherry. AIADMK and PMK, which worked out a seat-sharing arrangement Saturday, may try to oust the Puducherry ministry before the one-day voting for the 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and the lone seat in the union territory scheduled for May 13.

February 5th, 2009 AGARTALA - Hundreds of students from the northeast studying in Tamil Nadu are stranded and facing severe hardship after the state government closed educational institutions, apprehending violence over the Sri Lankan Tamil issue. 'Over 15,000 students from the northeast in Tamil Nadu are facing lots of hardship after the state government announced closure of educational institutions and adjoining hostels for an indefinite period anticipating violence over the Sri Lankan Tamil issue,' anxious guardians here said.

January 15th, 2009 CHENNAI - Foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon's ongoing Colombo trip to solve the ethnic minority's tangle in Sri Lanka is important from a Tamil Nadu perspective, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said here Friday.