U-turn lifts limit from £1m to £2.5m after protests and warnings that family farms were at risk Ministers will increase the threshold for taxing inherited farmland from £1m to £2.5m after months of ...

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu transport dept has removed the state's name from stickers displayed on govt-owned mofussil buses, triggering protests by Tamil organizations and political parties across the ...

Government proposals to tax inherited farmland have been watered down, with the planned threshold increasing from £1m to £2.5m. The climbdown follows months of protests by farmers and concern from ...

The fourteenth week of Bigg Boss Tamil Season 9 concluded on a deeply emotional note as wildcard contestant Amit Bhargav was evicted from the house. Hosted by Makkal Selvan Vijay Sethupathi, the ...

2025 was quite a polarising year for Tamil cinema. Audience thronged to theatres, not to watch the best of what the biggest stars of the industry had to offer, but to listen to good stories from ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Tamil calendar is more than a list of dates. It quietly shapes daily life, rituals, and seasonal rhythms, marking time through festivals that follow the Sun, the Moon, and ancient traditions ...

In a massive Christmas U-turn by Sir Keir Starmer, the government has announced a huge climbdown on inheritance tax on farmers. The tax relief on family farms handed down between families is to ...

Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fewer farmers will start paying inheritance tax from April after UK ministers were forced into a £130mn climbdown by a ...

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has published the draft electoral roll of voters in Tamil Nadu on Friday (December 19, 2025), after carrying out the much-debated Special Intensive Revision (SIR ...

The New Year and Pongal settle into our lives almost simultaneously. While one beckons us to look ahead with renewed zeal and excitement for all that it brings, the other subtly reminds us to take a ...