Madras High Court. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Tamil Nadu theatrical rights holder of Vijay Deverakonda starrer ‘Kingdom’ has approached the Madras High Court to restrain Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) chief coordinator S. Seeman and his followers from interfering with the screening of the movie in cinema halls on the alleged ground that … Read more
The report on the ‘Results of the Educational Census of Madras November 1871’ throws some interesting light on the sharp divide in the pyall schools in the Madras Presidency. The Educational Census was meant to ascertain the exact state of education in Madras as shown by the number of schools, their standards of instruction and … Read more
The judge pointed out that a public awareness campaign carried out by food safety officials to warn people against consuming adulterated watermelons had backfired, leading to monetary loss for the farmers who had not indulged in any such adulteration. (File photo) | Photo Credit: L. BALACHANDAR The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Tamil … Read more
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Madras High Court order, which completely halted a recruitment process to fill 2,569 vacancies in the Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department (MAWS), spelling relief for the Tamil Nadu government. The interim order of the High Court on April 3 had brought to a grinding stop a recruitment … Read more
University of Madras. File | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj Syndicate members of the University of Madras have demanded an inquiry by a syndicate sub-committee into alleged irregularities in the purchase of equipment for a centre for social research at the institution. A written demand was made to the Registrar of the varsity in August … Read more
M.K. Alagiri. File | Photo Credit: S. James The Madras High Court on Tuesday (March 4, 2025) reversed an order passed by a judicial magistrate in Madurai in 2021 discharging former Union Minister M.K. Alagiri from select provisions of law in a 2014 land grab case and ordered that he must face trial for those … Read more
Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) on Tuesday released the most detailed 3D High-Resolution images of the fetal brain. This pioneering work from the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre of IIT Madras pushes the frontiers of Brain Mapping Technology and places India in the global league of brain mapping science as this is first-of-its-kind … Read more
A view of the Madras High Court. File | Photo Credit: K. Pichumani The Madras High Court on Thursday (November 28, 2024) summoned the Tamil Nadu Public Department Secretary, irked that no counsel turned up to represent the State government in a batch of five writ petitions filed by it in 2023, which challenged the … Read more
Constructing a college by taking temple lands on long term lease can only be considered as a benevolent act, the Madras High Court has said while dealing with a case filed against leasing out 2.5 acres of land belonging to the Somanathaswamy Temple at Kolathur in Chennai. Justice M. Dhandapani wrote: “A scrutiny of the … Read more
The 385th Madras Day is just the occasion to celebrate the founding of a cultural city and its architectural landscape. It is a confluence of civilisations, manifested in its architectural evolution, over centuries. Madras, renamed Chennai in 1996, began its journey as a conglomeration of riverine village clusters located close to the ancient Mahabalipuram port. … Read more