Madras High Court
- India
Advocates cannot seek information under RTI Act for clients’ cases: CIC
New Delhi: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has ruled that advocates cannot use the Right to Information (RTI) Act to seek details regarding cases they are handling for clients, observing that using…
- India
SC refused to entertain ‘Jana Nayagan’ producer’s plea against HC order
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a plea filed by the producer of Vijay-starrer Tamil film “Jana Nayagan”, challenging an interim order of the Madras High Court that…
- India
HC judge quotes Prophet Muhammad, directs Madurai corpn to pay lawyer’s fee
Madurai: Quoting a famous saying of Prophet Muhammad on prompt and fair payment upon completion of work, Justice G R Swaminathan of the Madras High Court has directed the Madurai corporation to…
- Chennai
TN stampede: All-party meet held to formulate guidelines for public meetings
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday held a meeting of political parties to formulate guidelines on holding public meetings in the wake of the September 27 stampede in Karur that claimed…
- Chennai
TN stampede: HC forms SIT, denies pre-arrest bail to TVK leaders
Madurai: The Madras High Court on Friday formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the September 27 stampede at the political rally of actor and TVK founder Vijay, on a day…
- Chennai
TN stampede: Madras HC directs constituting SIT
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday ordered setting up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under senior IPS officer Asra Garg to probe the September 27 stampede during actor-politician Vijay’s rally in…
- India
Karur stampede victim moves HC against nod to TVK to hold rallies
Chennai: A man injured in the September 27 stampede in the political rally of TVK founder Vijay on Sunday moved the Madras High Court with a plea to forbear Tamil Nadu DGP…
- India
SC grills TN govt over senior cop’s suspension post HC directive
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday grilled the Tamil Nadu government over the suspension of Additional Director General of Police H M Jayaram, who was directed to be arrested by the…
- India
Madras HC stays Tamil Nadu university’s suspension order over ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti
The Madras High Court has stayed the arbitrary suspension of a student by a Tamil Nadu university after ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘Jai Bhim’ slogans were painted on its hostel walls. On May 25,…
- Chennai
Modi-Trump cartoon: Madras HC orders Indian govt to lift ban on Vikatan
The Madras High Court, on Thursday, March 6, ordered the Union government to lift the ban imposed on Vikatan, a Tamil-language weekly magazine, whose website was blocked after it posted a cartoon…
- Hyderabad
Actress Kasthuri Shankar arrested in Hyderabad for controversial remarks
Hyderabad: Actress Kasthuri Shankar was arrested by the Egmore police on Saturday, November 16 at a film producer’s residence in Hyderabad due to her controversial comments about the Telugu community. Following the…
- India
Madras HC quashes defamation complaint against TN speaker
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday, October 25 quashed a defamation complaint pending against Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P Appavu in a special court here, citing want of locus standi by…
- India
Lesbianism as sexual offense reintroduced in NMC’s medical curriculum
New Delhi: The National Medical Commission has reintroduced ‘sodomy and lesbianism’ as unnatural sexual offences in the forensic medicine and toxicology curriculum for undergraduate medical students. It has also brought back topics…
- Entertainment
Madras HC directs Studio Green to deposit Rs 1 cr each before releasing ‘Thangalaan’, ‘Kanguva’
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Monday flagged the release of two big-budget Tamil movies — ‘Thangalan’ starring ‘Chiyaan’ Vikram and ‘Kanguva’ featuring Suriya. A division bench of the high court comprising…
- India
Madras HC asks aviation min to consider plea for Tamil announcements on flights
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Civil Aviation to make announcements in Tamil mandatory in all domestic flights operating to and from the airports in Tamil Nadu.…
