Chennai Headlines Today — The Biggest Updates You Need to Know. The Judges observed that the appellants failed to produce formidable evidence to show that Agama Sastra of Saivites prohibits lighting a ...

The Madurai High Court has upheld a single judge's order directing the lighting of the Karthigai Deepam at the stone pillar atop Tamil Nadu's Thiruparankundram in the city, bringing closure to a ...

When a row broke out over lighting of the Karthigai Deepam at the Thirupparankundram hill in Madurai 30 years ago, four Sthaneeka Bhattars of the famed Subramaniaswami Temple had testified that the ...

The flag hoisting ceremony marks the commencement of Santhanakoodu festival of the Sikandar dargah A group of local residents staged a protest against the flag-hoisting ceremony for the Santhanakoodu ...

The family said they did not have a clear understanding of the legal complexities of the 'deepam' issue. A pall of gloom hangs over a narrow street in Madurai's Narimedu area, where grief-stricken ...

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday ordered an interim stay against a Single Bench order dated December 2, which granted permission to conduct Karthigai Deepam festival at Mandu Kovil ...

A plea before the Supreme Court claims that judges cannot be subjected to street protests or political or social pressure. Advocate GS Mani has filed the plea before the SC. Mani has asked the top ...

MADURAI: Members of several organisations including the Tamil Nadu Narikuravar Federation, Madurai Muslim Makkal Sangam, Bharathiya Forward Block and Madurai Vadakku Vitta Nadar Uravinmurai submitted ...

Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu: Marking the conclusion of one of Tamil Nadu’s most revered festivals, the sacred cauldron used for lighting the Karthigai Maha Deepam atop the Thiruvannamalai hill was ...

In Parliament, Anurag Thakur flagged the Madurai ‘Deepam’ controversy, saying the dispute over lighting the Karthigai Deepam at the Deepathoon near a dargah in Thiruparankundram has created ...

The raging controversy stirred by a demand for lighting Karthigai Deepam at a stone pillar on the sacred Thiruparankundram Hill and the subsequent actions taken by the state government to avert what ...

DMK leader Kanimozhi on Wedneaday submitted an impeachment notice to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking the removal of Madras High Court judge G R Swaminathan. She did so after securing the signatures ...