Owners of IPL franchise Kochi Tuskers Kerala on Wednesday moved the Bombay High Court to challenge the BCCI's decision to terminate the team's contract at its Annnaul General Meeting.
Tamil Nadu's unending legislative fight for exemption from NEET has now flagged the question if it's time to review the Supreme Court's famous verdict in the 'Mandal case', fixing 50-per cent upper-limit for all reservations, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
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On March 14, the Supreme Court had ordered Nokia India to give Rs 3,500 crore (Rs 35 billion) as guarantee before it transfers the plant to Microsoft.
Thousands of people marched on the streets with Dravida Munnetra Kazagham president MK Stalin to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Chennai on Monday. Several senior leaders of opposition parties including that of Congress, Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India-Marxist, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, and Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam participated in the mega rally to register their protest against the new law.
Vice President Dhankar's and Law Minister Rijuju's recent interventions have the danger of destabilising the Constitutional equilibrium, cautions N Sathiya Moorthy.
Nokia may now not sell its Chennai unit.
The Madras high court has told an accused in a case pursued by the National Investigation Agency to avail bail after giving an oath to the effect that he would abide by the Constitution of India.
Rulers in New Delhi and their political aides in sensitive states like Tamil Nadu have to be doubly careful not to provoke a situation whose consequences may be much more than visible now to the naked eye, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Madras high court on Friday upheld a trial court order convicting over 200 men, including forest and police officials and sentencing them to various prison terms for atrocities committed against tribals including rape, where the victims included a minor girl and a pregnant woman.
The Chennai High Court cleared the film for screening both in Kannada and Tamil.
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party's state unit staged a protest here demanding justice in the case.
The Gauhati high court on Friday directed the Tamil Nadu government to give permission and security to a delegation from Assam while inspecting the elephants taken from Guwahati to temples of the southern state.
Anti-Congress regional parties may have felt the possible impact of Rahul's South-North yatra, pending a second East-West padayatra, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
A low-down on the eight runners -- four men and four women -- who finished second in their qualifying heats to make the Olympic cut.
The EPS camp believes that the BJP was already arm-twisting the AIADMK into conceding more seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections 'than they deserve' observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Five fishermen from Tamil Nadu, who were sentenced to death in Sri Lanka for alleged drug trafficking but set free after President Mahinda Rajapaksa pardoned them, arrived in Chennai on Friday.
A trial court in Tamil Nadu's Kumbakonam on Tuesday convicted international antique dealer Subhash Chandra Kapoor and five of his accomplices to 10 years imprisonment in the Udayarpalayam burglary and illegal export of 19 antique idols valued over Rs 94 crore to the Art of the Past Gallery, New York, USA, the state idol wing CID said on Tuesday.
A group of around 300 lawyers on Monday went on a day-long fast in front of the Madras High Court, a day after their associations decided to indefinitely boycott courts to press their demands, including action against police officials for the February 19 lathicharge in the court premises.
A day after getting bail from Supreme Court in disproportionate assets case, former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa walked out of Parappana Agrahara Central Prison on Saturday.
Nokia's Chennai plant is under freeze over tax dispute.
The first bench of the Madras high court on Wednesday set aside an order of the Tamil Nadu HR&CE department, which appointed a 'fit' person (thakkar) to administer the Ayodhya Mandapam run by Sri Ram Samaj in West Mambalam in Chennai.
The international health organisations, protesting against Swiss pharmaceutical major Novartis AG's legal challenge to provisions of the Indian Patent Act
The Chennai high court on Friday issued a notice to Congress party spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan, acting on an affidavit seeking direction to probe a Rs 300 crore scam involving her. Natarajan is a Congress Member of Parliament from Tamil Nadu.The affidavit alleges that Natarajan facilitated a sizeable bank loan from Vijaya Bank by misusing her links with the Union government.Natarajan is also under legal scrutiny for allegedly owning 6,88,300 square feet land.
When the matter came up today, Justice Ramaswamy strongly condemned the action of the lawyers and remarked it was a very cheap practice, scandalising the judiciary.
Calcutta high court judge Justice C S Karnan will observe hunger strikes in Delhi and three other cities demanding restoration of his administrative and judicial work and withdrawal of the suo motu contempt proceedings against him.
The Pakistan Cricket Board had asked to move its match against Afghanistan from Chennai to Bengaluru and the game against Australia from Bengaluru to Chennai.
A 2.49 acre land valued at more than Rs 30 crore belonging to the sister-in-law of Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji has been frozen as part of an ongoing money laundering investigation against him, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Thursday.
For India to view the new Sri Lankan leadership only through the prism of the past or through their narrow view on China, is fraught with possibilities that should be avoided, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
The businessman claims he has paid all the dues to the cricketer.
The Delhi high court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking direction to the Centre and the Election Commission to make voting compulsory in parliamentary and assembly polls, saying it cannot force a person to vote.
The warning came after Nokia Chairman and interim chief executive officer Risto Siilasmaa met Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and tax authorities in a bid to resolve the Rs 21,153-crore (Rs 211.53 billion) liability it faces.
'Is the Agniveer scheme or their post-retirement re-employment in paramilitary forces or in the state governments the BJP's answer to the crying need on the job front?' 'Or, even Finance Minister Sitharaman's one-year internship scheme in the public and private sector, is it a permanent solution, either?', asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
75 MPs of both houses of Parliament belonging to three major opposition parties the Bharatiya Janata Party, Communist Party of India-Marxist, Bahujan Samaja Party and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham have signed a four-page petition to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, urging him to make a statement in both houses of Parliament on issue of Union Minister A Raja's being accused by a Chennai High Court Judge of trying to influence a case.
The district sessions court, which is hearing the sensational Kodanadu heist and murder case, on Friday adjourned it for September 2 following argument by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam lawyers that the case cannot be taken up as another case is pending in Madras high court in this regard.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed N Srinivasan to resume charge as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India while setting up special panel to probe the spot-fixing scandal that rocked the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League.
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