Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 12 (ANI): The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption (DVAC) has carried out searches at the premises of former All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) minister KPP Baskar and his family members for possession of disproportionate assets.

Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 8 (ANI): The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) on Friday conducted raids at 49 premises linked to former AIADMK minister Kamaraj across Tamil Nadu and detected disproportionate assets worth Rs 58 crore related to him.

Chennai Dec 18 PTI The DMK government has planned to celebrate the birth centenary of party leader and former state minister K Anbazhagan in a grand manner Chief Minister M K Stalin will rename the Integrated Complex for Finance Department at Nandanam here after the leader who has been closely associated with the Dravidian stalwart and late Chief Minister M Karunanidhi Apart from renaming the complex the Chief Minister will unveil the former ministers statue on the campus on Sunday an official release here said on Saturday Popularly known as Perasiriyar professor Anbazhagan a trusted friend of Karunanidhi passed away at the age of 98 in Chennai in March last year He was born in Kattoor village in Tiruvarur district on December 19 1922 Despite his involvement in politics Anbazhagan never withdrew himself from writing and wrote over 40 books on numerous topics since 1948 His family will be honoured for nationalising his books the release saidPTI JSP BN BN

A ‘red alert’ for heavy to very heavy rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday- has been issued for 20 districts across Tamil Nadu, including Chennai. Expecting a fresh deluge, the Tamil Nadu government has set up 434 ‘siren towers’ to alert authorities to floods and other emergencies. In view of the warning, the government has declared […]

Chennai Sep 22 PTI The Madras High Court on Wednesday lambasted the Joint Commissioner of the Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments HRCE department for filing a counter-affidavit in response to a PIL petition allegedly in a cavalier manner The cavalier manner in which the counter-affidavit has been prepared cries out for immediate action to be taken against the Joint Commissioner including for contempt Indeed the arrogance of the Joint Commissioner knows no bounds as he suggests in the last paragraph of the affidavit that the procedure contemplated in the HRCE Act 1959 is cumbersome and therefore time-limit may not be fixed the first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice P D Audikesavalu said The PIL petition filed by Elephant G Rajendran related to the missing of the copper plate at the Bakthavatsala Perumal temple in Tiruvarur district and the encroachment on its 400 acres of land The counter by the Joint Commissioner stated that the copper plate has been recovered and the petitioners grievance in such regard has been taken care of However what is alarming is that paragraph 6 of the counter-affidavit filed by the Joint Commissioner reveals that the temple administration has identified 20693 acres of land belonging to the temple and uploading process in the HR CE website is going on The next sentence is shocking Major part of the lands were leased out to tenants and some encroachers are also in possession The bench noted that there is no indication as to who could have leased out the temple land to any tenant and as to how many encroachers are in possession and what part of the temple land has been let out and what part encroached The HRCE secretary shall furnish full details as to the extent of the land owned by this temple the measures taken to retrieve the land particulars of the tenants to whom parcels of land may have been let out the accounts pertaining to the lease rents that may have been tendered and the steps taken to rid the land of the encroachers Such affidavit must be submitted when the matter appears next a fortnight hence the bench said The secretary would do well to enthuse government servants in the department so that such complete lack of accountability as is revealed from the counter-affidavit filed by the Joint Commissioner here is more the exception than the rule the bench added The Joint Commissioner Thennarasu should file an affidavit to show-cause why immediate appropriate action should not be taken against him for the disrespect shown to the court in the manner in which the affidavit has been drafted and for dereliction of duty in not paying attention to any detail or seeking to furnish the same to court Such explanation should also be available when the matter appears next on October 20 the bench said PTI COR SA APR APR