'Wonder of wonders we finished the Janmashtami song and can you believe it within the next few days it so happened that Dilip Sahab walked into my life, gazed into my eyes and asked my grandmother and mother for my Hand in marriage.'
Saira Banu turned nostalgic on her 79th birthday on August 23.
The Madras High Court today upheld the appointment of senior IPS officer Ranjit Sinha as Director of Central Bureau of Investigation.
A plasma cutter was flown in from Hyderabad on Sunday to cut and remove parts of the auger machine stuck in the rubble inside the Silkyara tunnel where 41 labourers have been stranded for the last 14 days.
The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras invites applications for its Five Year Integrated Masters Programme, leading to an MA degree in three disciplines, Development Studies, Economics and English.
The apex court passed the order on an application moved by the Registrar of Madras high court, who is also private secretary to the chief justice, seeking an order to restrain Justice Karnan from doing any judicial work.
A clutch of innovators, entrepreneurs and researchers are heralding a revolution that combines the academic and the real world within the IIT Madras campus.
The national scheduled castes panel has sent a notice to IIT Madras over the de-recognition by the premier technical institute of a students' group, several of whose members are from the Dalit community, allegedly following a complaint that it was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The children who use the said application are vulnerable to sexual predators, the court said.
The Madras high court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam founder and Leader of Opposition in Tamil Nadu Assembly Vijaykanth, who apprehended arrest in connection with a case of alleged manhandling of a journalist at the airport.
Petitions challenging the election of All India Anna Dravida Munetra Kazhagam supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to the assembly in a byelection have been filed in the Madras high court by two independent candidates.
Scores of volunteers belonging to the leftist of Democratic Youth Federation of India were detained on Saturday after they tried to stage a road blockade outside the Indian Institute of Technology Madras to protest the derecognition of a students' group for allegedly criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, even as some political parties expressed concern over 'threats' to freedom of expression.
The Tamil Nadu government had appointed advocates P S Nagarajan and K S Ramasamy as special public prosecutors for the case, which was transferred to Pondicherry by the Supreme Court on a petition from the seer last year.
The Madras High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea of Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, seeking premature release under the general amnesty scheme.
There may be those who could want to go slow, citing the large pendency of follow-up action and court cases that they would have to process and/or proceed with, before raiding more politicians, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
a special bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and B R Gavai said they were 'not entertaining the writ petition' that sought to restrain Gowri from taking oath 'in view of the grave threat to the independence of the judiciary'.
Professors and academicians from both the institutions will also collaborate on joint research projects and publish their research in internationally reputed academic journals. The MoU allows academic associates from ISB to enroll for a PhD programme in IIT Madras. They will be able to attend full courses or lectures in both the institutions.
Rahman had received Rs 3,47,77,200 from Libra Mobile during 2010-11 in his individual capacity as an artiste which must have been considered for taxation and this was not considered by the Assessing Officer in the reassessment order.
The Madras high court has observed that free PDS rice given to ration card holders should be restricted only to families below the poverty line, noting that doling out freebies to all sections of people have made people "lazy".
Around 450 members from IIT-M, besides the other seven IITs in the country, are resorting to the black badge protest. The association said on Wednesday that the present IIT pay-scales were neither commensurate with the required qualifications nor enough to attract fresh talent,even to well established IITs and that the faculty are 'frustrated with the inordinate delay' in implementing the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations.
The DMK claimed in its plea that reservation is not a poverty alleviation programme but is more in the nature of social justice to uplift communities that have not had access to education or employment for centuries.
Scores of Congress party-affiliated National Students Union of India workers on Friday held a protest outside Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani's official residence in New Delhi over IIT-Madras de-recognising a students' body for reportedly criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The judge set aside the order of the principal district judge, Villupuram, acquitting Ponmudy and his wife in the case.
The provocation of violence in the Madras high court was started by the lawyers and the police later went "berserk", the Supreme Court-appointed committee has said while holding that the judges had followed a "soft- pedalling policy" leading to the "piquant situation".
The Supreme Court has appointed retired apex court judge Justice B Srikrishna to inquire into the recent clash between lawyers and police in the Madras High Court premises.The committee will submit its interim report within two weeks to the apex court.The SC also asked the state government to transfer four top police officials over the issue.
Justice S Nagamuthu reserved the orders without fixing any date after hearing elaborate arguments of Tamil Nadu government, Nalini's counsel and Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy, who was allowed by the HC to assist it in hearing Nalini's petition.
Mumbai's Church of St John the Evangelist or Afghan Church looks today as good as it did 158 years ago.
The HC judge in a letter to the Centre said it would be a good deterrent in wake of increasing crimes against minors.
The three -- Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan-- lodged in Vellore Jail, were scheduled to be hanged on September 9.
The Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy was manhandled and abused by a group of lawyers in a court room at the Madras High Court on Tuesday.
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The ED had registered an ECIR (Enforcement Case Information Report) in the matter under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
E K Palaniswami had won the trust vote 122-11 in the 234-member assembly aided by the eviction of main opposition DMK and walkout by its allies, amid stormy scenes during which mikes were uprooted, chairs toppled and sheets of papers torn.
Mast Mein Rehne Ka is a thoroughly human film, which makes you laugh as hard as it will make you feel for the characters, notes Mayur Sanap.
The Madras high court has come down heavily on the elite Central Crime Branch police, stating that the special department of the state police delayed filing FIRs and accepted bribes from both the accused and the complainant. Dismissing an anticipatory bail petition in an economic offences case on Wednesday, Justice R Regupathi questioned the CCB's inability to quickly file cases against the suspects and conduct an investigation.
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 Saturday restrained TVS Motor Company from manufacturing, marketing and selling its bike 'TVS Flame 125' in the ongoing patent infringement case with rival Bajaj Auto Limited.
Greenpeace contended that the order cancelling its licence was false and violated law.
The advocates are seeking withdrawal of the amended rules under the Advocates Act, that empower judges to act against errant lawyers.
The top court collegium headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud had on July 5 recommended the appointment of Justice Mridul, a judge of the Delhi high court, as the chief justice of the Manipur high court, amid the ethnic turmoil in the border state.
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