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Solution to Cong-DMK deadlock as reports of deal emerge

Congress, DMK seemed to have made the first actual progress into the week-old deadlock over seat sharing.

The parties have now agreed to 61 of DMK's own seats and two from the PMK.

The Congress was

DMK accepts Congress demand, parties resolve poll deadlock

Chennai: The strains in the alliance between the Congress and the DMK have been ironed out with the latter accepting Congress' demand for 63 seats, according to informed sources.

They said the deal

Mukherjee appeals to DMK; Patch-up unlikely

Chennai: The DMK-Congress alliance appeared headed for a break with six Union Ministers of the regional party set to resign today even as Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee appealed to Tamil Nadu Chi

DMK ministers arrive in Delhi to submit resignation

Union ministers belonging to the DMK arrived here on Monday morning, two days after the party decided to to pull out from the Manmohan Singh government, even as hectic talks with the Congress leadership continued.

DMK rules out reconsidering its decision

New Delhi/Chennai: The seven-year-old alliance between DMK and Congress appeared headed for a break with the regional party today ruling out reconsidering its decision to pull out of the Union cabin

Cong-DMK deadlock: No breakthrough yet, says Azad

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Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who had negotiated with the DMK on seat sharing for Tamil Nadu assembly polls, on Monday said there was no breakthrough in the deadlock as of now.

Mukherjee reaches out to Karunanidhi in patch-up bid

New Delhi: In an apparent patch-up exercise, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today called DMK Chief M. Karunanidhi over phone and urged him to reconsider the party's decision to withdraw its mini

'BJD not to support UPA'

Bhubaneswar: In the wake of the DMK's decision of pulling out of the UPA government, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo Naveen Patnaik on Monday ruled out his party's support to the Congress led UPA govern

Mukherjee reaches out to Karunanidhi in patch-up bid

In an apparent patch-up exercise, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday called DMK chief M. Karunanidhi over phone and urged him to reconsider the party's decision to withdraw its ministers from the UPA government.

No DMK resignations today, party to wait for a day: Stalin

Chennai/New Delhi: The DMK on Monday decided to 'wait for a day' and postponed its decision to quit the Manmohan Singh government after talks between senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee and Tamil

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