Ayesha Arvind

Bengaluru, Oct. 15 -- The Madras high court on Wednesday questioned the Tamil Nadu government's repeated refusal to allow route marches by the

The Madras High Court permitted RSS route marches in Tamil Nadu on October 25 and November 1, criticising police for repeatedly rejecting applications on grounds already disapproved by the court.

Bengaluru, Oct. 18 -- The Supreme Court has said the Union government's Sahyog Portal can provide the "foundation for a national database to detect

“Our expectations from the portal, however, are much more than what it is, as of now, capable of doing, and we are hopeful that the Union of India shares the same vision,” it said.

The court said criticism and protest are protected forms of expression and that speech should be judged by reasonable, strong-minded people.

The Madras High Court said Vijay was not asked to convert to Hinduism, only to affirm his faith in the deity before entering the Meenakshi Amman temple.

The Madras High Court said Vijay was not asked to convert to Hinduism, only to affirm his faith in the deity before entering the Meenakshi Amman temple.

The bench said visitors must agree to follow Hindu religious practices and temple customs, calling for an authoritative ruling on the issue.

The bench said the government must go by what its policy actually says and not what it intended it to mean.

Bengaluru The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Union government to grant “war injury pension” to an Indian Army veteran who had developed rheumatoid arthritis during his posting at Kargil, ruling that the government cannot interpret its own policy in a way that “contradicts its plain wording” or leads to “arbitrary, irrational or discriminatory outcomes”