Sasikala Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has given a verdict that expelled All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) VK Sasikala and her supporters have no connection with the party, said Tamil Nadu Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar on Friday.

India's COVID-19 tally mounted to 1,06,89,527 with 12,689 new cases in a day, while 1,03,59,305 people have recuperated from the infection so far pushing the national recovery rate to 96.91 per cent on Wednesday, according to the Union Health Ministry's data.

The Election Commission told the Supreme Court Monday that it can allot a common symbol of "pressure cooker" to an individual but not to an unregistered group led by former AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran and VK Sasikala in Tamil Nadu.

Retired Supreme Court judge Pinaki Chandra Ghose is set to be appointed as the country's first Lokpal, or the anti-corruption ombudsman, sources said today.

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a plea of former AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran and VK Sasikala challenging a Delhi High Court order granting the ''two leaves'' symbol to a faction led by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister EK Palaniswami.

The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Election Commission's response on a plea by AMMK leader TTV Dhinakaran seeking "Pressure Cooker" as a symbol for both the Lok Sabha polls and Assembly by-elections.

TTV Dhinakaran, the nephew of VK Sasikala, will not get the pressure cooker symbol for his party, the AMMK (Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam). Instead, the Supreme Court ordered the Delhi High Court today to take a decision on who should get the two leaves symbol of the AIADMK.

A 46-year-old woman from Sri Lanka, who entered the Sabarimala temple last night, became the third woman of menstruating age in the temple's history to offer darshan to the shrine of Lord Ayyappa nestled in the Western Ghats, since Supreme Court ordered the end of a decades-old ban on women of menstrual age entering the shrine.

Amid tight security and a shutdown call by a right-wing group following the arrest of its Kerala chief, thousands of devotees trekked to Sabarimala and offered prayers to Lord Ayyappa. The hill-top shrine opened for the third time on Friday since the Supreme Court order for 62-day-long Mandala Pooja-Magaravilaku annual pilgrimage. Lakhs of devotees...

The disqualified lawmakers of Tamil Nadu will have to wait for a verdict on their appeal of reinstatement. The Supreme Court today turned down their appeal to transfer the case out of the Madras High Court, which gave a split verdict earlier this month and then referred it to a third judge. The top court has named a judge in the Madras High Court t...

TTV Dhinakaran, who is fighting Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK for the legacy of Jayalalithaa and the two-leaf election symbol, has suffered a setback from the Supreme Court. Following an appeal by the AIADMK, the top court out a freeze on the "pressure cooker" symbol granted to Mr Dhinakaran's party and asked the High Court to settle the issue by Apri...

VK Sasikala's hopes of getting out of jail and taking charge of the AIADMK crashed on Wednesday when the Supreme Court rejected an appeal against her conviction that has landed her in jail since February this year.

A petition filed by AIADMK's VK Sasikala -- seeking review of her 4-year-jail term following conviction in a corruption case -- was deferred today after a judge who was to hear it, recused. Justice Rohinton Nariman, who was part of the two-judge bench withdrew after Sasikala pointed out that his father, eminent jurist and constitutional expert Fali...

A day before the Supreme Court takes up AIADMK leader VK Sasikala petition against her conviction, the Tamil Nadu politician sentenced to four years in jail has asked that the top court's Justice Rohinton Nariman should not hear her case.

Days after her nephew TTV Dinakaran found himself behind bars in Delhi, AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala is making a bid to get out of the Bengaluru jail where she is serving a four-year jail term. On Wednesday, Sasikala filed a review petition against her conviction by the Supreme Court that had hauled her off to jail in February, arguing that...

The Supreme Court has given a verdict that expelled All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) VK Sasikala and her supporters have no connection with the party, said Tamil Nadu Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar on Friday.

India's COVID-19 tally mounted to 1,06,89,527 with 12,689 new cases in a day, while 1,03,59,305 people have recuperated from the infection so far pushing the national recovery rate to 96.91 per cent on Wednesday, according to the Union Health Ministry's data.

The Election Commission told the Supreme Court Monday that it can allot a common symbol of "pressure cooker" to an individual but not to an unregistered group led by former AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran and VK Sasikala in Tamil Nadu.

Retired Supreme Court judge Pinaki Chandra Ghose is set to be appointed as the country's first Lokpal, or the anti-corruption ombudsman, sources said today.

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a plea of former AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran and VK Sasikala challenging a Delhi High Court order granting the ''two leaves'' symbol to a faction led by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister EK Palaniswami.

The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Election Commission's response on a plea by AMMK leader TTV Dhinakaran seeking "Pressure Cooker" as a symbol for both the Lok Sabha polls and Assembly by-elections.

TTV Dhinakaran, the nephew of VK Sasikala, will not get the pressure cooker symbol for his party, the AMMK (Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam). Instead, the Supreme Court ordered the Delhi High Court today to take a decision on who should get the two leaves symbol of the AIADMK.

A 46-year-old woman from Sri Lanka, who entered the Sabarimala temple last night, became the third woman of menstruating age in the temple's history to offer darshan to the shrine of Lord Ayyappa nestled in the Western Ghats, since Supreme Court ordered the end of a decades-old ban on women of menstrual age entering the shrine.

Amid tight security and a shutdown call by a right-wing group following the arrest of its Kerala chief, thousands of devotees trekked to Sabarimala and offered prayers to Lord Ayyappa. The hill-top shrine opened for the third time on Friday since the Supreme Court order for 62-day-long Mandala Pooja-Magaravilaku annual pilgrimage. Lakhs of devotees...

The disqualified lawmakers of Tamil Nadu will have to wait for a verdict on their appeal of reinstatement. The Supreme Court today turned down their appeal to transfer the case out of the Madras High Court, which gave a split verdict earlier this month and then referred it to a third judge. The top court has named a judge in the Madras High Court t...

TTV Dhinakaran, who is fighting Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK for the legacy of Jayalalithaa and the two-leaf election symbol, has suffered a setback from the Supreme Court. Following an appeal by the AIADMK, the top court out a freeze on the "pressure cooker" symbol granted to Mr Dhinakaran's party and asked the High Court to settle the issue by Apri...

VK Sasikala's hopes of getting out of jail and taking charge of the AIADMK crashed on Wednesday when the Supreme Court rejected an appeal against her conviction that has landed her in jail since February this year.

A petition filed by AIADMK's VK Sasikala -- seeking review of her 4-year-jail term following conviction in a corruption case -- was deferred today after a judge who was to hear it, recused. Justice Rohinton Nariman, who was part of the two-judge bench withdrew after Sasikala pointed out that his father, eminent jurist and constitutional expert Fali...

A day before the Supreme Court takes up AIADMK leader VK Sasikala petition against her conviction, the Tamil Nadu politician sentenced to four years in jail has asked that the top court's Justice Rohinton Nariman should not hear her case.

Days after her nephew TTV Dinakaran found himself behind bars in Delhi, AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala is making a bid to get out of the Bengaluru jail where she is serving a four-year jail term. On Wednesday, Sasikala filed a review petition against her conviction by the Supreme Court that had hauled her off to jail in February, arguing that...