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Karunanidhi goes back empty-handed

DMK supremo and Tamil Nadu chief minister Karunanidhi, who landed in Delhi a couple of days back with the sole aim of getting everything worked out on the issue of seat-sharing with the Congress, had

DMK, Congress set up panel to decide TN seats

The DMK-Congress alliance that came into being in 2004 is all set to continue for the forthcoming Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu. This was confirmed after Tamil Nadu chief minister M.

Is DMK evasive about Cong deal?

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It is reliably learnt that the DMK was evasive about committing itself to sharing power with the Congress.

Karunanidhi in Delhi, will meet Sonia, PM on polls

With the Tamil Nadu elections just three months away, DMK supremo and chief minister M.

Karuna in Delhi today for talks

DMK supremo and Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi is arriving in the capital on Sunday to have seat-sharing talks with Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Telangana all-party meet in Feb.

With the government deciding to convene an all-party meeting to discuss the controversial Telangana issue, in the first week of February, and amidst divergence of views among MPs of Andhra Pradesh over the controversial issue, the Andhra chief minister Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy on Friday called on the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and is believed to have discussed the emotive statehood issue. Also the Telangana subject came up for discussion in the congress core group meeting attended by Prime Minister Dr Singh, Congress president Ms Sonia Gandhi and other top brass of the party.

TN: Cong may go with DMK

Despite a strong clamour by several state leaders for a change of alliance partner in Tamil Nadu, sources say the central leadership of the Congress is all set to be guided only by the comfort level of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-2. Besieged as it is on several fronts, the party can ill-afford at this juncture to take a daring step.

T-panel report to be out today

Union home minister P. Chidambaram will meet representatives of political parties on Thursday to hand over a copy of the Justice Srikrishna Committee’s report on the demand to carve out a separate state of Telangana. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), BJP and Telugu Desam Party have said they will boycott the meeting. In view of the move to make public the report on Thursday, the Congress has asked its MPs from Telangana region not to raise the political temperature in Andhra Pradesh.

Baalu meets Sonia on developments

Amidst reports of Union minister for chemicals and fertilisers M.K. Alagiri having put in his papers, senior DMK leader T.R. Baalu on Wednesday called on Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi. According to sources, Mr Baalu met Mrs Gandhi to apprise her of the recent developments in the DMK as the two parties have reiterated that they will contest the upcoming Assembly polls together.

TN Cong leaders meet Sonia over DMK tieup

Leaders from the Tamil Nadu unit of the Congress, who had come to participate in the 83rd plenary of the party, also had an opportunity to share their thoughts with party president Sonia Gandhi on the

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