A document filed by her AK Bose, the Thirupparankundram candidate, showed the Tamil Nadu chief minister's thumb impressions in the designated space for signature.
Justice V V S Rao refused to stay the show-cause notice issued to Jayalalithaa by the mandal revenue officer of Qutubullahpur on January 24, 2007, and dismissed the writ petition on the ground that moving the court was premature.
The Delhi High Court imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on the Janata Party president.
CBI sources said Jayalalithaa received 89 demand drafts worth Rs 2 crore drawn on various banks in Tamil Nadu and purchased in the names of 57 people, besides Rs 15 lakh in cash.
In his first poll rally for the April 6 assembly polls, Modi rooted for the Tamil language, culture and invoked the welfare legacies of M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa, late chief ministers and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam icons.
If Sasikala wants to stay in active politics, she will have to go to EPS crawling, reports Aditi Phadnis.
Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of office and secrecy to 68-year old Stalin, for whom this would be the first stint as CM
Ace Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is now in a wave of a storm for what appeared to be criticising the government of Tamil Nadu.
"It was not a decision I took happily. But circumstances compelled me to do my duty," said the Tamil Nadu chief minister.
The amount has been sanctioned from the chief minister's relief fund.
Aishwarya and upcoming star Dhanush tied the knot on November 18.
Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Thursday said he will move the Supreme Court against the acquittal of AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa in a grafts case.
In his order, the poll authority said required number of proposers had not validly proposed the candidature of Vishal Krishna and that the actor had been proposed only by eight valid proposers.
Senior Congress leader to support AIADMK
With this, the Maran family's cable TV network comes under government control.
The apex court also allowed the plea of the Karnataka high court registry.
As she read out from a prepared text, Jayalalithaa bowled over the audiences and the leaders with her Hindi.
After an aerial survey of the flood-hit areas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced an immediate release of Rs 1,000 crore for relief and rehabilitation works in Tamil Nadu.
The Election Commission is set to ask the government to amend laws to disqualify candidates listed in chargesheets for bribing candidates, a move which comes days after it cancelled a Tamil Nadu assembly bypoll following allegations of use of money to influence electors.
PM has assured more help to flood-hit TN: Jayalalithaa
Clad in black shirts, AIADMK coordinator Pannneerselvam and co-coordinator Palaniswami led a silent march
Public Works Department Minister O Pannerselvam cut a 57-feet-long cake at the party headquarters.
In the final award, Tamil Nadu will get 217 tmc ft of water -- 192 tmc ft from Biligundulu and 25 tmc ft for envrionmental purposes between Biligundulu and Mettur.
The CBI has asked the Speaker for permission.
Jayalalithaa has written to the PM complaining about FM's unilateral move on tsunami relief.
This follows serious allegations of malpractices in the relief work levelled by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M Karunanidhi and other opposition leaders.
Moved by the plight of a young destitute woman who was sexually assaulted, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday extended a cash assistance of Rs 5 lakh and provided a government job to her.
Holding that it was All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo J Jayalalithaa, who had paid for the arrangements for the lavish marriage of her now estranged foster son VN Sudhakaran, the special court in the disproportionate assets case against her pegged the expenses incurred by her at Rs 3 crore.
Stalin gets a new title...
Shivraj Patil reviewed the situation with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
At least 39 passengers of Chennai-Mangalore Express were injured after four bogies derailed near Cuddalore in the wee hours on Friday.
Days after his outburst against AMMK leader T T V Dhinakaran, close aide Thanga Tamilselvan on Friday joined the DMK in the presence of its chief M K Stalin. He is the second top Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam leader after V Senthil Balaji to join the principal opposition party in Tamil Nadu.
The party unanimously elected veteran Duraimurugan as general secretary and senior leader T R Baalu as treasurer. Former Telecom Minister A Raja and seasoned party leader K Ponmudi were elected as deputy general secretaries.
SC said that it will go into the issue of framing of charges only after hearing a petition filed by Jayalalithaa and others seeking discharge in the case.
A petition has been filed in the Madras high court against the candidature of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Deputy General Secretary TTV Dinakaran for the April 12 RK Nagar assembly by-election on the ground he had been penalised in Foreign Exchange Regulation Act cases.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday urged Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to meet Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo to work out a compromise to resolve the recurring issue of the arrest of Indian fishermen by the island nation's navy.
As 46 Indian nurses, including six from Tamil Nadu, are stranded in a hospital in strife-torn Iraq, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to personally intervene in the issue and ensure their safe return home.
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