Earlier, a Division Bench of Madras High Court upheld the directive of a single judge to light the Karthigai Deepam at the stone pillar atop the Thiruparankundram hillock, claimed to be a Deepathoon adjacent to the Sikkandar Dargah in Madurai city.
Debunking the claims of the stone pillar, abutting the dargah, atop the Thiruparankundram hillock, as a ‘deepathoon’ of the famed Murugan temple below, the Tamil Nadu Government on Friday told a Division Bench of Madras High Court that it was merely a survey pillar and there was no record of deepam being lit there.
When the government counsel sought postponement of the hearing till the appeal was disposed of, the Judge said he could wait till the next hearing but not after that.
He sought a direction to the EC to this effect as he had lost the last election in 2021 by a wafer-thin margin of 137 votes to the DMK candidate.
After hearing arguments from both sides, a Division Bench comprising Justices S.M. Subramaniam and M. Jothiraman reserved its verdict.
Expanding the scope of marriage, Madras High Court has observed that same sex couples too can very well form a family since wedlock alone could not be the mode to start a family.
Amidst the ongoing controversy, Kunal Kamra reveals that a 'Bigg Boss' casting director sent him an invitation. Kamra prefers a mental asylum.
Justice Sunder Mohan extended the interim protection in the three cases filed against him for his alleged remarks in a recent show in Mumbai against Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
In a temporary relief to the DMK government of MK Stalin and in particular to V Senthil Balaji, Minister for Electricity and Prohibition and Excise, Madras High Court on Thursday disapproved the manner in which Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths carried out the raid on the headquarters of the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) in the city
A Division Bench of Madras High Court, on Monday, ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the massive illegal mining of beach sand minerals (BSM) going on for many years in the southern coastal districts, citing large-scale corruption, collusion and connivance among politicians, government officials and private mining firms.
