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TopicMadras High Court

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A wife is not a Vodafone pug, Madras High Court says

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.

Why is India importing foreign waste when it cannot manage its own? Madras HC has a warning

The ruling has exposed a quieter form of colonialism in which poorer nations bear the environmental burden of richer countries’ consumption.

Madras HC puts end to caste discrimination at Kancheepuram temple, says ‘all equal in eyes of God’

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.

Vijay personally gave out job appointment letters to Karur stampede victims’ kin. Why HC cancelled order

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.

DMK MLA arrested over ‘defamatory’ remarks against CM Vijay after HC denies anticipatory bail

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.

Tamil Nadu government approaches Supreme Court, challenges Madras HC’s cow slaughter ban order

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.

Madras HC, don’t police wardrobes of folk artists. Protect their fundamental rights instead

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.

Madras HC order loosens a shackle in surrogacy law. Why it’s a big win for reproductive autonomy

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.

Where does culture end, obscenity begin? Madras HC’s track record with straddling the line

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.

Scheduled Caste or Backward Class Hindu cannot claim reservation after embracing Islam: Madras HC

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.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

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.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

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.