Bengaluru: Jayalalithaa was today acquitted by the Karnataka High Court in the disproportionate assets case that came as a huge relief to the AIADMK chief that will enable her stage a political comeback and return to the Chief Minister’s post. Pronouncing the verdict in a jam-packed court, Justice C R Kumaraswamy also acquitted AIADMK’s chief […]

Bangalore : AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on Thursday moved the Supreme Court against a Karnataka High Court order rejecting her plea for bail and suspension of sentence handed down by a special court in Bangalore in the disproportionate assets case. In her application, Ms. Jayalalithaa said she was a 66-year-old woman with ailments and her […]

New Delhi: In its plea before the Supreme Court on Monday, the Centre said that soon after the court stayed the release of three persons whose death sentences in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case had been commuted, it sent a letter to the Tamil Nadu government, asking that the release be kept in abeyance. On […]

New Delhi: The Central government on Monday moved the Supreme Court in a bid to stop the release of seven convicts involved in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the petition and has fixed the next date of hearing on February 27. The apex court had last […]

New Delhi: A day after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa announced her decision to release six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday condemned the move. Expressing his unhappiness, Singh said the Tamil Nadu CM must reconsider her decision. On microblogging website Twitter, Singh said

New Delhi: On the back foot after Rahul Gandhi expressed his unhappiness on the possibility of the assassins of his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi walking free, the Centre moved the Supreme Court on Thursday against the judgment commuting the death penalty of three convicts to life term and, also, against the Tamil […]

New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambram on Monday announced that service tax would be abolished on rice from the staple’s loading to storage stage. Rice was originally exempt from service tax. However, later the Finance Ministry had said that only paddy is agri-produce, while rice is a processed item. Presenting the interim budget for 2014-15 […]

Mysore:  The former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (S) national president H.D. Deve Gowda on Sunday said that the Janata Dal(S) is not a party of one family or of a father-and-son but a party fighting for the cause of social justice. Mr. Deve Gowda, who is part of the efforts being made by leaders […]

New Delhi: The last thing Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa would have wanted this close to the General Election was more legal trouble. In a setback, the Supreme Court cleared the continuation of trial against her for not filing income tax returns in her capacity as a partner of a firm she had set […]

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Thursday inaugurated a law school in her constituency Srirangam and a government medical college in Thiruvannamalai district.According to an official statement, the Tamil Nadu National Law School will admit 100 students during the academic year 2013-14, including 10 non-resident Indian students. The school is built on a 25 […]