Jayalalithaa also said that in her letter to a newspaper on Saturday, she had pointed out that Left parties did not invite her party to take part in a protest rally in Delhi against India's joint naval exercises with other nations, including the US.
It announced relief of Rs 3 lakh each to the bereaved families.
Section 125 of the RPA provides for imprisonment upto six months for filing false information in affidavits before electoral authorities.
Asked if AIADMK had taken the decision unilaterally, Jayalalithaa claimed it was a collective decision of the parties of the newly-floated eight-party Third Front.
Certain important decision would be taken in this conclave, Jaya said.
Though the main agenda of the meeting is to decide the strategy on presidential election and the alternative economic agenda being proposed by TDP, talks will also cover the proposed Third Front.
The judges, however, refused to issue notice to the Union home secretary, the first respondent, and Azhagiri, the eighth respondent in the PIL.
The letter, received at the office of Jaya TV on Sunday, threatened to kill Jayalalithaa using bombs.
B V Acharya, one of the senior most advocates in Karnataka, resigned as the advocate general on Wednesday. There is no one reason been given for the resignation and the former two time AG also does not spell out the real reason for him quitting.
Karunanidhi said the government had been taking stern action against those supporting terrorism, irrespective of the political party they belonged to.
After predicting a bigger role for her party at the national level in the Lok Sabha polls due in 2014, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo Jayalalithaa on Monday asked party workers to take a vow to determine the future of Indian politics.
The three AIADMK workers had been found guilty of murder in the February 2000 Dharmapuri bus burning case.
The department of vigilance and anti-corruption in Tamil Nadu on Thursday carried out searches at over 20 premises and locations related to former All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam minister K C Veeramani, including at his native Jolarpettai in Thirupatthur district in connection with a disproportionate assets case, the police said.
The party, to be called the Tamil Maanila Kamaraj Congress, is headed by D Komaradoss.
The Tamil Nadu chief minister said there was nothing wrong in her entering national politics if the opportunity comes and circumstances so warranted.
He was 64 and is survived by his wife, four sons and five daughters.
Earlier, counsel for Jayalalithaa, N Jothi, MP, asked the judge to provide her with copies of the 2000-page charge sheet.
ADMK MLA Srinivasan will provide those below the poverty line with insurance cover. \n\n
Bharatiya Janata Party's Rajya Sabha member Su Thirunavukkarasar has decided to resign from the party and the upper House of the Parliament as he is all set to rejoin the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.Su Thirunavukkarasar said that he would take a final decision on the matter after he talked to senior BJP leaders L K Advani and Rajnath Singh. The 60-year old leader unsuccessfully contested from Ramanathapuram in the Parliamentary polls
"The unrest in Sri Lanka was triggered off only because the Tamils of the island were relegated, post-independence, to the status of secondary citizens in their own homeland. Decimation of the LTTE or the killings of its leaders will not wipe away the injustice meted out to this large community which had its roots in Sri Lanka," she said
Jayalalithaa had first made an offer of support to the UPA on November 11, 2010, prior to the removal of A Raja as Union Telecom Minister. On Monday, she told TIMES NOW that the November 2010 offer was a onetime offer and that there was no question of working with the Congress at present. By describing her offer as a onetime offer, Ms Jayalalithaa has put an end to talk about a political realignment with the Congress.
If there is one thing which could break the resolve of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, perceived to be a tough leader, it would be the sentiments of her party workers, if one goes by the admission of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief.
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader Jayalalithaa will be sworn in as the next chief minister of Tamil Nadu on Monday, May 16, at 12 pm
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman criticizes the DMK government in Tamil Nadu, alleging corruption, caste-based crimes, and a rise in drug abuse. She dismisses the DMK's claims about language and Dravidian identity as a distraction from their governance failures.
The elephants received Jaya and then went canvassing door-to-door.
erala and Tamil Nadu will be going to polls on May 16 and ahead of the assembly elections, Rediff Labs analyses who's been making the most buzz
Opposition members said renaming of the new greenfield airport at Shamsbad after dropping the name of the late N T Rama Rao hurt "Telugu pride".
Tamil Nadu is set to protest against the National Education Policy (NEP) on February 18, with the ruling DMK and its allies announcing a demonstration. The state government has been at odds with the Centre over the implementation of the NEP and the three-language formula proposed in the policy. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan dismissed the state's opposition as "politics" and asserted that the Centre is committed to implementing the NEP across the country. The DMK, however, accused the Centre of encroaching on the state's rights and using the office of the Governor to push the NEP.
Abstention by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi also helped the government get its legislation through in the upper house where the ruling party does not enjoy a majority.
"Being a former chief minister, Jayalalithaa could have obtained a copy of the order in the POTA case from her lawyers and studied it properly before throwing a challenge," Karunanidhi said.
Distancing herself from the United National Progressive Alliance floated by non-Congress and non-BJP parties a few months ago, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief Jayalalithaa on Thursday said there was "no such thing called the Third Front".
The workers, who cleaned the statue, demanded the arrest of the culprits and warned that they would intensify their agitation if such incidents recurred, police said.
Leader of the House K Anbazhagan moved the resolution seeking to suspend A K Bose who represents Thiruparakundram constituency for Thursday's incident in the House.
Though her party has been sharing some views of the Sangh Parivar -- including its opposition to the demolition of Ram Sethu -- the time is not ripe for an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party, former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalaithaa said.
Details of seat-sharing will be worked out between AIADMK and the BJP's state unit, AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa and BJP president Venkaiah Naidu told reporters after a 45-minute meeting in Chennai.
It was after a long time that a senior BJP leader had met Jayalalithaa, whose party had severed ties with it after the 2004 Lok Sabha polls.
In a statement, Jayalalithaa said it was unfortunate that the EPF board decided to retain the interest rate at 8.5 per cent, amidst opposition from the huge work force of the country.
The names of the candidates were announced by AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa soon after her return from Udhgamandalam on Sunday in a statement.
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