NEW DELHI: The Tamil Nadu government has officially taken possession of assets seized from late chief minister J Jayalalithaa in the long-running disproportionate assets case. These included 27 kg and 558 grams of gold jewellery, 1,116 kg of silver, and documents related to 1,526 acres of land, previously stored in the Karnataka Vidhana Soudha treasury….
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday announced a whopping Rs 5 crore cash prize for teen Indian Grand Master D Gukesh, who recently became the youngest ever world chess champion. Gukesh on Thursday beat defending champion Ding Liren of China in a roller-coaster 14-game showdown to clinch the title. After the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday expressed surprise at the fact that V Senthil Balaji was appointed a minister in Tamil Nadu right after getting bail. The court said that it would look into the issue of witnesses feeling threatened after the move.A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih,…
M K Stalin (Picture credit: MK Stalin X handle) NEW DELHI: Stating that a state should not arbitrarily reject a scheme for petty political gains, Centre Saturday urged Tamil Nadu govt to reconsider its decision to reject PM’s Vishwakarma scheme, which aims to “uplift traditional artisans and craftspeople”. Minister of state for skill development and…
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: 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’…
