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HC upholds order that allowed only sportspersons to head sports bodies

The first bench of the High Court upheld an order of a single judge, which among other things had held that sports organisations must be headed by sports persons alone

Madras HC dismisses plea seeking to ban religious attire in schools

A division bench of Justices M Duraiswamy and T V Thamilselvi dismissed the plea from K Gopinath, president of Hindu Munnetra Kazhagam, today

Consider plea to make Chennai airport boarding point for Haj pilgrims: HC

AG submitted that the recommendations had been sent to the Haj Committee to add Chennai airport as one of the destinations for embarkation point for the Haj pilgrims

Madras HC upholds 7.5% reservation for govt students, Stalin hails the move

The Madras High Court on Thursday upheld Tamil Nadu government's law reserving 7.5 per cent seats for students of government schools in medical college admissions

No threat to life of former AIADMK minister, govt informs Madras HC

When the elections to the State Assembly were on, the political rivals attacked Shanmugam, his relatives and partymen with deadly weapons on May 8, 2006

HC directs TN govt to form teams to identify govt teachers taking tuitions

Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the state education department to form special teams to identify the govt school teachers taking private tuition or running private businesses

Wildlife forensic lab will become operational shortly: TN govt to HC

The Madras High Court has been informed that the Wildlife Forensic Laboratory (WFL) will become operational shortly in Tamil Nadu.

Madras High Court dismisses SpiceJet's appeal against winding up order

The airline has time till January 28 to move the Supreme Court.

Madras High Court upholds single judge's order against SpiceJet

Justices Paresh Upadhyay and Sathi Kumar Sukumara Kurup dismissed the appeal preferred by the private carrier

Madras High Court frowns over lower court 'summoning' God for inspection

Wondering if God can be summoned by a court to be produced for inspection, the Madras HC has pulled up a lower court for ordering the authorities of a temple in Tirupur to produce the 'Moolavar'

HC allows termination of pregnancy of minor, a victim of sexual assault

The Madras High Court has allowed the abortion of the six-month pregnancy of a 17-year old girl who was sexually assaulted by a 44-year old man

SpiceJet to file appeal in Madras HC against its order to wind up operation

Spice Jet has announced that it would file an appeal in the Madras High Court against an order of the single bench of the high court directing the airline to wind up its operation

SpiceJet to appeal winding up order by HC, hopeful of positive decision

The Court on Monday ordered winding up of the airline on a petition filed by Credit Suisse over unpaid dues of $24 million

SpiceJet says HC has stayed its earlier order of winding up the airline

The carrier said it has a good case on merits and was hopeful of having favourable outcome in the appeal

Madras High Court orders winding up of SpiceJet over outstanding dues

The Madras High Court has ordered the winding up of private carrier SpiceJet Limited and directed the official Liquidator attached to the High Court to take over its assets, in a plea filed by a Swiss company over unpaid dues. The court was allowing a company petition from Credit Suisse AG, a stock corporation registered under the laws of Switzerland, which prayed for winding up of the Indian firm under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 and appoint the Official Liquidator of the High Court as the Liquidator with all powers under Section 448 of the Companies Act to take charge of SpiceJet's assets, properties, stock in trade and books of accounts. The "respondent company (SpiceJet) has miserably failed to satisfy the three pronged test suggested by the Supreme Court in Mathusudan Govardhandas & Co. v. Madhu Woollen Industries (P) Ltd., and hence had rendered itself liable to be wound up for its inability to pay its debts under Section 433 (e) of the Companies Act 1956," ...

Madras High Court quashes part of CBIC circular on fish meal

This circular had clarified an earlier circular, issued a few days ahead of the roll out of GST from July 1, 2017

CJ transfer out of Madras High Court snowballs into controversy

The Supreme Court collegium's proposal transferring Madras HC Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee to Meghalaya has snowballed into a controversy with voices for and against the shifting of the senior judge

Chennai floods: Authorities face Madras HC heat as death toll rises to 5

The court's scathing view comes at a time when rainfall-related incidents have claimed five lives so far.

HC notice to Centre on petition challenging faceless income tax assessment

The court restrained the tax department from recovering additional demand and posted the matter to November 11

Deal land grabbing by elected representatives sternly, says Madras HC

The court said that elected persons involving in land grabbing activities are far more serious than that of the land grabbers who all are ordinary citizens.