M. Karunanidhi

Alagiri, the elder son of Karunanidhi, was once considered a party strongman and Madurai is his fiefdom.

Jayalalithaa has bucked Tamil Nadu's trend of voting out a party after every five years. Except her mentor MG Ramachandran, nobody has done that in the last 30 years. She has also returned to power for the fourth term since 1991.

The election trail in Tamil Nadu is heating up, with the DMK and AIADMK taking pot-shots at each other on a regular basis.

In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Prabhu Chawla, Editorial Director of New Indian Express spoke about the current political uncertainty and where things are headed in terms of an early election.

The 2G saga will reach an important milestone on Saturday, when OP Saini, the special judge in the CBI trial court, reads out the charges against the 17 accused.

A senior Executive of Sun Pictures who who was held yesterday under charges including cheating and intimidation, was remanded to judicial custody, police said.

The results of the 13th assembly elections in Tamil Nadu are out and it is a decisive victory for J Jayalalithaa. So, does the rise of Jaya mean sun-set for the Maran brothers’ Sun Network? CNBC-TV18’s Swathi Narayanan reports.

The PAC committee questioned Ratan Tata on a handwritten letter he directly chose to write to the Tamilnadu chief minister M Karunanidhi bypassing the Prime Minister. In fact, the panel members also pointed out that Tata should have written to the prime minister instead of writing it to Karunanidhi.