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AIADMK general secretary and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha accepted the challenge by DMK president M. Karunanidhi for an open debate on the Cauvery issue, saying she was prepared to face him in the State Assembly. Repeatedly charging Mr. Karunanidhi with betraying the State on the emotive inter-State river water-sharing dispute with Karnataka, Ms. Jayalalalithaa said the DMK patriarch should make up his mind on accepting her challenge and announce it publicly “lest he himself accepts that he had betrayed” the people. Addressing an election rally in Arani, she recalled that Mr. Karunanidhi had in a recent public meeting at Tiruvarur asked if the two could debate the issue in the Assembly. “I accept Karunanidhi’s challenge. I am ready to discuss the Cauvery issue in the next assembly session to be convened after the Lok Sabha elections. I am ready to list out Karunanidhi’s betrayals,” she said.  The Chief Minister laid down a condition that only Mr. Karunanidhi should face he...

Jayalalithaa lists projects expected to bridge gap Tamil Nadu will have surplus power by the end of this year, Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa has said. Addressing a public meeting, she said: “The State will get 230 MW after NLC expansion by July. The NLC-TNEB joint venture project at Tuticorin will generate another 387 MW. The Vallur third unit will start contributing 350 MW from August. Besides, agreements have been signed for purchase of 3,300 MW for 15 years. The Sholapur-Raichu r power line, now under trial, will be available for commercial use shortly and contribute another 1,208 MW to the State. The Kudankulam second unit will supply 462 MW by the end of this year.” “When I took charge as Chief Minister in 2011, the State’s requirement was 11,000 MW, against the generation of 8,000 MW. Certain amount of time is required to bridge the 3,000-MW gap,” she said.

As a result of the ceaseless efforts of Chief Minister Puratchi Thalaivi Amma, second round of fishermen level talks between representatives of Tamil Nadu and Srilanka to be held on May 12th and 13th. As a result of the ceaseless efforts of Chief Minister Puratchi Thalaivi Amma, the second level of talks between the fishermen of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka will take place on the 12th and 13th of May 2014. A letter has been written by Tamil Nadu to the Government of India in this regard. According to the letter, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Puratchi Thalaivi Amma had written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the 20th of September last year proposing fishermen level talks between fishermen belonging to Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. As a follow up to this, the fishermen level talks were held in Chennai on the 1st of January this year. In reply to the centre’s letter on the 28th of february 2014, it was conveyed by Tamil Nadu on the 2nd of March 2014 that the next round of talks...