Tamil Nadu is second on the list of registered drug abuse cases as per data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The state government has launched a major campaign against drugs. The neighbouring state of Kerala also is facing a similar situation of high intensity drug and...
Despite its progress in human development and educational standards compared to other states in India, Kerala continues to embarrass its admirers with its hidden and savage fascination for the occult and thriving worship of black magic, bizarre cults including crocodile worship. The shocking...
While taking a sympathetic view of a policeman facing multiple disciplinary proceedings in the police department, the Madras high court had said that the policeman should undergo the consequences of only some of his misconduct, not all. Justice S Srimathy, who gave the judgement, cited karma...
Media have described Savukku Shankar as activist and YouTuber. He calls himself whistleblower, someone who blows the whistle on the rot in various institutions and among people in power. His mode of expression is tea shop talk and WhatsApp rant. Savukku Shankar has said his writings or even...
On Friday, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court ordered the arrest of Savukku Shankar for contempt. A bench comprising Justice G R Swaminathan and B Pugalendhi refused to suspend the sentence which is normally given so the person who has been sentenced can go on appeal against such...
The family of Srimathi, the 17-year-old girl who committed suicide in Kallakurichi, is among those who refuse to accept bodies of their kin who die under mysterious circumstances. Srimath's suicide has been much in the news now, from the suspicious circumstances of her death, the mob violence...
18 years after elephant poacher Veerappan was killed in an encounter with the Karnataka STF, the poaching of elephants and illegal tusk trade continues unabated by Tamil Nadu-based poachers. In many instances, these smugglers are now being caught in Karnataka and Kerala. In the last 45 days...
The controversy over YouTuber Karthik Gopinath collecting funds on a crowdfunding platform to “renovate” temple statues in Siruvachur of Perambalur in Tamil Nadu, and the State government coming down on him for accumulating money without authorisation has raised the uncomfortable question once...
The G Square-Vikatan-Kevin case is much like the idiyappam that Tamils love. The case flashed in the media when Kevin, described by the police as being associated with the Vikatan Group, was arrested some six hours of the filing of an FIR for trying to extort money from property developer G...
The Supreme Court judgment in the Perarivalan case has important implications for the relationship between the state and central governments as well as in defining the powers of the state government and how much discretion the Governor has. On May 22, the Supreme Court used the extraordinary...
