With the general elections are approaching, all eyes are on Mallikarjun Kharge, the national president of the Congress party and presumably a national opponent to take on Modi.
Elected from the Thirukoilur constituency in the 2021 assembly polls, Ponmudi had been serving as the Tamil Nadu Minister for Higher Education in MK Stalin's cabinet.
If Ponmudi fails to dismiss the sentence within thirty days, he would be pushed to serve incarceration, following which, he would become the second DMK Minister to be lodged in jail in the party's two-year rule.
In the wake of an unabated downpour, the scale of rainfall that was recorded in some areas of these districts was as double as to what Chennai and its neighbours recorded earlier this month during the landfall of Cyclone Michaung.
Advocating for a ban, the order underlined that loud noise causes interruption and obstruction in the working capacity, sleep, rest, and communication of people.