Contract staff to get maternity benefits too: Madras HC | India News – Times of India

CHENNAI: Contractual conditions cannot deny or offer less favourable maternity benefits to women employees, Madras high court has ruled, pointing out that Maternity Benefit Act would prevail over such contractual conditions.The first bench of chief justice K R Shriram and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy passed the order on Tuesday, on a plea moved by MRB Nurses’…

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Row as ‘Dravida’ omitted from Tamil Nadu state anthem at governor event | Chennai News – Times of India

Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi (left); Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin (right) CHENNAI: A chorus singing ‘Tamil Thai Vaazhthu’ at an event Friday celebrating the Hindi month at Doordarshan Kendra, Chennai, with governor RN Ravi as the chief guest omitted the word “Dravida” from the lyrics —and all hell broke loose.Virtually every party barring…

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No illegal detention in Sadhguru’s Isha Ashram, Tamil Nadu police tells Supreme Court | Coimbatore News – Times of India

Police team visited the Isha Foundation on Oct 1 for an inquiry. CHENNAI: The two women, Geetha, 42, and Latha, 39, were not illegally confined in Isha Ashram in Coimbatore, according to the written submission by the women monks, who were christened as Maa Mathi and Maayu. The police team, led by assistant Superintendent of…

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Isha Foundation row: SC transfers plea from HC to itself, asks cops not to take further action | India News – Times of India

In a relief for Jaggi Vasudev‘s Isha Foundation, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Tamil Nadu Police to not act further in pursuance of the Madras High Court order asking it to probe alleged illegal confinement of two women at its ashram.The apex court transferred to itself a habeas corpus petition filed before the…

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HC: Police firing at Sterlite protesters that killed 13 ‘at behest of an industrialist’ | India News – Times of India

CHENNAI: We believe that police firing against anti-Sterlite protesters in 2018, wherein 13 persons were killed, was a predetermined act carried out at the behest of an industrialist,” the Madras HC said Monday, adding “one particular industrialist… wanted to teach the protesters a lesson and the authorities facilitated it.”HC directed Tamil Nadu’s Directorate of Vigilance…

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