(Picture Courtesy: Facebook) The issue between Nayanthara and Dhanush over the footages of ‘Naanum Rowdy Dhaan’, used in the documentary ‘Nayanthara: Beyond The Fairy Tale’, has now intensified as the ‘Raayan’ actor has now filed a civil suit against the ‘Jawan’ actress. According to Bollywood Hungama, the Madras High Court has urged the ‘Lady superstar’…
CHENNAI: The Madras high court has restrained the Chennai-based Music Academy from conferring the “Sangita Kalanidhi M S Subbulakshmi” award on singer T M Krishna for 2024.Justice G Jayachandran, however, said there is no bar on conferring the award without using the name of MS Subbulakshmi to recognise the achievement of Krishna. The “mirror award”,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday constituted a three-member SIT, comprising DIG-rank IPS officer Saroj Kumar Thakur and women IPS officers Ayman Jamal and S Brinda, to “objectively and fairly” investigate on a day-to-day basis the September 29 sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl at Anna Nagar in Chennai.From among nine IPS officers, including three women…
CHENNAI: The Supreme Court collegium on Monday recommended the elevation of Justice D Krishnakumar, a senior judge in Madras high court, as the Chief Justice of Manipur high court.Justice Krishnakumar was appointed as the judge of Madras high court on April 7, 2016, and is now set to retire on May 21, 2025. He is…
MADURAI: Hugging and kissing between two persons in love is not sexual harassment, rather it is quite natural, observed Madras high court recently quashing a trial court proceedings against a 20-year-old man in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin. Srivaikuntam All Women Police had charged the man with sexually harassing a 19-year-old woman. In 2023, the man filed…
NEW DELHI: Within weeks of the Madras high court validating the Enforcement Directorate’s money laundering probe against India’s biggest political donor Santiago Martin, better known as ‘lottery king’, the agency on Thursday carried out searches at 20 premises of the accused and his associates across Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Haryana and Punjab. Martin and his…
MADURAI: Expressing anguish over school students getting addicted to a banned tobacco product called ‘Cool Lip,’ Madras high court directed Tamil Nadu govt to establish Child Tobacco Cessation Centres in all districts with experts to counsel and treat addicted children, reports K Kaushik. HC also directed the Centre to issue orders to ban them.“An extreme…
CHENNAI: Invoking its inherent and extraordinary jurisdiction, Madras high court annulled the forced marriage of a 20-year-old woman with her former French teacher after the woman personally told a division bench that her wedding and its registration were ‘done by force’ and that she did not want to live with him as his wife.The bench…
CHENNAI: Twelve years after a trial court had allowed the closure of a corruption case against former Tamil Nadu chief minister and expelled AIADMK functionary O Panneerselvam, Madras high court reversed the order on Tuesday, thereby reviving the case.Justice N Anand Venkatesh, who had initiated suo motu revision proceedings against the closure, passed an order…
CHENNAI: Are ministers governed by a dress code? Is a T-shirt formal dress or casual?The Madras high court will decide the issue as a public interest writ petition has been filed flagging Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin‘s routine of wearing T-shirts bearing the DMK party’s Rising Sun symbol embroidered on the left chest.An…
