Madras High Court

Security beefed up at Madras HC after bomb threat

11:13 pm September 17, 2019

Chennai: Security was tightened on the premises of the Madras High Court on Tuesday a day after it received a bomb threat from a man who claimed to be a member of the ‘International Khalistan Support Group’. Following the threat, a meeting of the security committee of the court was held in which city police […]

Techie’s death: HC frowns on illegal hoardings

7:42 pm September 13, 2019

Chennai: Coming down heavily on the Tamil Nadu government over illegal hoardings, the Madras High Court on Friday wondered how many more lives should be lost as a result of such banners, endangering the lives of people. A day after a 23-year old woman techie came under the wheels of a water tanker after she […]

India tightens regulatory grip on Facebook, WhatsApp with new rules

SC seeks Centre’s reply on Facebook’s plea over linking social media accounts with Aadhaar

11:38 pm August 20, 2019

New Delhi: The Supreme Tuesday sought response from the Centre, Google, WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube and others on Facebook Inc’s plea seeking transfer of cases related to linking of social media accounts with Aadhaar, pending in different high courts to the apex court. The top court agreed to hear the Facebook plea and sought responses of […]

Pregnancy law will be tweaked soon, Centre tells HC

9:47 pm August 8, 2019

Madurai: The central government on Thursday informed the Madras High Court bench here that the Health Ministry will again initiate the process for amending the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act. The submission was made in a petition the court initiated on its own, asking the Centre as to when the MTP Act would be amended […]

No need for CISF to regulate devotees of Athivaradar: HC

10:17 pm July 29, 2019

Chennai: The Madras High Court Monday ruled out deployment of CISF for security and refuted the argument that the Tamil Nadu police were not able to control the crowd to have darshan of Lord Athivaradar at the Devaraja Swamy temple in Kancheepuram. A division bench of Justice S Manikumar and Justice Subramonium Prasad disposed of […]