The abduction of an eight-year-old Indian-origin girl in South Africa's Cape Town and the alleged inaction of the police in probing the case has triggered protests by the residents of the city.
The INDIA bloc has 95 MPs in Rajya Sabha of which 45 were suspended on Monday.
Veerasamy's angry outbursts was in connection with his charge that the PMK leader had built a college in farm lands in Villupuram district and Dr Ramadoss launching a mud slinging campaign against him, while stoutly denying the allegations against him.
Veerasamy was the electricity minister in the previous DMK government.
Stalin's sister and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi will for the first time try her luck in the Lok Sabha.
The "mild-mannered" Veerasamy Thiruvengadam Velupillai, the father of the slain Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam supremo Prabhakaran, never endorsed the militant ways of his son and was not even on talking terms with him for a long period, a media report said on Sunday.
Tamil Nadu is facing a shortage of 2,000-2,500 Mw. The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) has proposed a compulsory two-day power holiday for both heavy and light industries due to the ongoing power crisis in the state.
Tamil Nadu, the country's third largest IT services exporter, on Friday said it no longer needed investments in the sector and instead asked non-resident Indians to pump in money in manufacturing, be it even for brick kilns.
Answering questions from members in the assembly, Electricity Minister N Veerasamy urged the MRF management to find a solution to the labour issue in a week's time. If no solution was found, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi will be forced to intervene, he said.
The comments gave a false picture to the public that a government could not be questioned or found fault with whatever it did, the petition said.
Forward Veerasamy Raja says he cannot get over how the umpire awarded a goal and then disallowed it in India's bronze medal play-ff match against Spain in the Junior World Cup.
Barring a minor incident when some supporters of the dead leader booed DMK's youth wing leader M K Stalin, the funeral procession passed off peacefully.
Though both the Dravidian majors are facing questions on family politics, the ruling party especially finds itself in the dock since its late leader J Jayalalithaa had often used it to target her party's archrival DMK.
Stalin has given due respect to seniority in the pecking order, but has also taken into consideration the demands of individual ministries and the suitability of individuals, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
With election fever rising in Tamil Nadu, Karunanidhi in court promised to be more than just a regular court hearing.
In Muthuvel Karunanidhi's passing, Tamil Nadu has lost the last of its Titans.
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