The Supreme Court on Thursday said nobody was stopping the Union government from bringing a new law on judicial appointments, but till then, the Collegium system and its Memorandum of Procedure was the “final word”. The court’s remarks came after Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankar on Wednesday criticised the striking down of …

When noted archaeologist R. Nagaswamy, the then Director of the Department of Archaeology, entered a dark room in the famed Chidambaram Thillai Nataraja temple in 1976, he did not know what was in store for him. His inspection yielded a fine collection of bronze icons, and he estimated their value …

The village was recently notified as Tamil Nadu’s first Biodiversity Heritage Site. It is loaded with everything from ancient Brahmi stones and 8th century Shaivite temples to around 250 species of birds and unique local traditions ‘‘Arittapattiundu, azhagaanadharmamundu, Mangulammandhaiundu, madhipaanaennamundu,” says C. Murugeswari, one of the native environmentalists who hold dear the …