Chidambaram criticizes Mayawati for installing statues

SIVAGANGA - Union Home Minister P. Chidamabaram has severely criticized Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for constructing and inaugurating statues of her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) symbol - the elephant-of herself and of Dalit leaders of yore.

Chidambaram wins in Sivaganga after re-counting

SIVAGANGA - Congress leader and Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has won the Sivaganga parliamentary constituency after re-counting.

Chidambaram loses in Sivaganga, seeks repoll

SIVAGANGA - Congress leader and Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has lost the elections in Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga parliamentary constituency to his All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) rival Raja Kannappan.

Only democratic solution to Sri Lankan problem: Rahul

SIVAGANGA - Civilians in Sri Lanka need to be protected and any solution to the island nation’s problem will have to come through the democratic way, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said here Friday.

After polls I will work with youth of Tamil Nadu: Rahul

SIVAGANGA - Congress general secretary and the party’s star campaigner Rahul Gandhi Friday reached out to the youth of Tamil Nadu, promising to work with them after the elections to change the face of the state.

Lankan crisis likely to end in 24-48 hrs: Chidambaram

SIVAGANGA - Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has expressed hope that the ongoing Sri Lanka crisis would come to an end “in another 24 or 48 hours”.

Fatal hammer blows await terrorists: Chidambaram

SIVAGANGA - Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Saturday sternly warned terror elements and said nobody will be allowed to play with India’s unity ’till the last drop of my blood’.

Chidambaram criticises Lankan Govt, LTTE

SIVAGANGA - Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday said that despite repeated requests from India to end the conflict in the island nation, both Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government were not taking any action on the issue.

India is more secure now than three months ago: Chidambaram

SIVAGANGA - Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Sunday said that India was more secured now than it was three months ago.

Water woes in Chidambaram’s Sivaganga constituency

SIVAGANGA - During the four-and-half years that Home Minister P. Chidamabaram held the finance portfolio, 52 bank branches were opened in his constituency Sivaganga and began lending money for agricultural operations. But farmers in this Tamil Nadu region are unhappy. They claim methods to raise crop production have left them without water.