The court was hearing an appeal against a Sivagangai family court order that had dismissed a husband’s divorce petition, partly because he had moved to Mumbai for work without taking his wife along.
The case was initiated as PIL in 2019 by devotee who alleged systemic discrimination against non-Brahmin members of the Thenkalai sub-sect at Arulmigu Devarajaswamy temple.
41 people had died and a hundred were injured in a stampede during Vijay's rally in Karur in September 2025. Tamil Nadu govt has now challenged order in Supreme Court.
TN ex-minister Anitha Radhakrishnan faces defamation case after he made objectionable remarks linked to the CM & actress Trisha last month. DMK leaders, including Stalin, condemn arrest.
Govt's petition states that the HC's order effectively imposes a blanket ban on cow slaughter, including at authorised slaughterhouses, and such a prohibition is legally untenable.
By putting the entire legal burden of ‘decency’ on a dancer’s wardrobe, especially the labouring bodies of the women, the court transforms precarious living into a legal minefield.
The Madras High Court was hearing the plea of an older couple who had lost their only child to a heart attack, and wanted to become parents via surrogacy.
For over a decade, Madras High Court has allowed temple cultural events subject to dress codes and anti-obscenity conditions. It has now reiterated the same for a Thoothukudi festival.
Striking down a state order that says converts must be treated as Backward Class Muslims, court reiterates 1952 ruling that says a Hindu ceases to be member of any caste on converting.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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