Muthuvel Karunanidhis passing away has brought back disparate images of my five unlikely years in Chennai as regional editor of the Indian Express. I use the term "unlikely" because someone born in Mustafabad, raised in the Urdu ambience of Lucknow would generally...

DMK patriarch and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi was buried beside his mentor C.N. Annadurai on the sands of Marina beach here on Wednesday after his party clinched a midnight legal battle as lakhs of commoners wept, pushed and jostled for...

On a half-a-day's trip to Chennai, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called on DMK President M. Karunanidhi and enquired about his health."Vanakkam, Sir", Modi greeted Karunanidhi as he sat near the 93-year-old veteran and held his hand. Accompanied...

DMK President M. Karunanidhi on Tuesday asked the Tamil Nadu government to spell out its next course of action after the apex court ordered Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs of water from the Cauvery river.In a statement issued here, the former Chief Minister...

The DMK party cadres on Friday celebrated their leader M. Karunanidhi's 93rd birthday here by cutting cakes and providing welfare assistance to the poor.In his birthday message to the youth, Karunanidhi urged them to halt the erosion of values of the four...

DMK president M.Karunanidhi on Monday complained that Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK had insulted his party at the swearing-in ceremony of the new government with party leader M.K. Stalin relegated to the back rows.In a statement issued here Karunanidhi said...

The difference in vote percentage between the AIADMK and the DMK is just 1.1. percent, DMK president M. Karunanidhi said on Friday.In a statement, Karunanidhi said the DMK-led front secured 1,71,75,374 votes or 39.7 per cent of all votes polled in the state...

DMK president M. Karunanidhi was on Thursday elected to the Tamil Nadu assembly from Thiruvarur, defeating his nearest AIADMK rival by 68,366 votes, the Election Commission said.This is the 13th time Karunanidhi, now 91, has won an assembly election. He...

Two days after DMK president M. Karunanidhi announced the candidates for the next month's assembly elections, party members in several places have started voicing their opposition to the nominees.On Friday, DMK workers from Tirunelveli district came to Karunanidhi's...

DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Sunday released his party's poll manifesto for the May 16 Tamil Nadu assembly elections and promised prohibition if his party returned to power in the southern state.The manifesto, released at the DMK headquarters here, also...

The DMK and the Congress on Monday announced seat sharing for the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, with the Congress agreeing to contest just 41 of the 234 seats.The Congress had demanded 63 seats, the number allotted to it in 2011. But the DMK offered only...

The DMK and the Congress held discussions here on Friday and decided to have further talks on seat sharing for the Tamil Nadu assembly elections.A Congress delegation led by former union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mukul Wasnik and Tamil Nadu Congress...

DMK president M.Karunanidhi on Wednesday announced his party will not participate in the assembly proceedings owing to the arrogant attitude of the ruling AIADMK.In a statement issued here, he said the ruling party members are allowed to speak anything about...

Forgetting their past acrimony over the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils, the DMK and the Congress on Saturday said they would ally for the forthcoming assembly elections in Tamil Nadu.Congress leader and former union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and DMK treasurer M.K....

One of the oldest active politicians in India at age 91, DMK president M. Karunanidhi is ready for yet another political battle, "if the people and my party say so"."If the people of Tiruvarur (assembly constituency) tell me and if the party permits me I...

DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Monday appeared before a local court here in connection with the defamation case filed by the Tamil Nadu government.The case was adjourned for March 10 after Karunanidhi's presence was recorded.Speaking to reporters later...

DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Wednesday said the party would not contest the June 27 by-election to the Tamil Nadu assembly from the Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency.The assembly elections were only a year away and democratic norms would not be followed...

DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Monday said his party would appeal against the Karnataka High Court's verdict acquiting Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa in the disproporationate assets case.Speaking at the party's district secretaries' meeting here, Karunanidhi...

DMK president M.Karunanidhi on Tuesday said party would deliberate at its district secretaries meeting on May 25 on whether to appeal against the acquittal of AIADMK general secretary J.Jayalalithaa by the Karnataka High Court.Speaking to reporters here,...

The Supreme Court order prohibiting the use of chief minister's photographs in government advertisements is an act to take away the powers of state governments, said DMK president M. Karunanidhi.In a statement issued here, Karunanidhi referring to the apex...