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1. Director Bharathiraja nary more
Renowned Tamil movie manager Bharathiraja passed away in Chennai today (June 10, 2026). The ace manager who had been ailing for a while, was 84.
Celebrated for shifting Tamil cinema from studio-bound film-making to authentic agrarian landscapes, helium is fondly known as Iyakkunar Imayam (Pinnacle among Directors). Bharathiraja won six National Film Awards, 4 Filmfare Awards (South), six Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and a Nandi Award.
He was instrumental successful introducing respective caller actors successful Tamil cinema. In a diagnostic move, helium rechristened galore actors with names opening with the missive ‘R’, gifting the manufacture with talented artistes including Radikaa, Revathi, Radha, Ranjitha and Rekha.
2. CM Vijay calls connected President, Vice President, Congress leaders
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay called connected President of India Droupadi Murmu astatine Rashtrapati Bhavan, Vice President of India C.P. Radhakrishnan, Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi successful New Delhi.
Mr. Vijay, who embarked connected a three-day authoritative sojourn to the nationalist superior to instrumentality portion successful the 11th Governing Council gathering of NITI Aayog connected Thursday, departed from Chennai connected a peculiar formation this morning.
3. YouTuber Mukhtar arrested
The Chennai cyber transgression compartment informed the Madras High Court that YouTuber Mukhtar Ahmed (50) was arrested yesterday successful transportation with a transgression lawsuit booked against him for having indulged successful quality assassination by making sexually coloured remarks against a pistillate functionary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and besides successful transportation with different transgression case.
4. Sulur miss intersexual assault-cum-murder: constabulary record complaint expanse successful 18 days
The Coimbatore District Police filed the complaint sheet against the 2 persons arrested for the abduction, intersexual battle and execution of a 10-year-old girl near Sulur connected May 21.
The 819-page chargesheet, which has 104 prosecution witnesses and 215 documents, was submitted earlier the Special Court for the proceedings of cases registered nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act successful 18 days since the transgression occurred.
5. Law Minister withdraws lawsuit against constitution of Fact Check Unit
Tamil Nadu Minister for Energy Resources and Law R. Nirmalkumar withdrew a nationalist involvement litigation petition filed by him successful 2023, challenging the constitution of a Fact Check Unit (FCU) by the past Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) authorities nether the enactment of Iyan Karthikeyan.
6. Speaker’s determination to judge resignation of MLAs challenged astatine Madras HC
A nationalist involvement litigation petition has been filed successful the Madras High Court challenging Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Speaker J.C.D. Prabhakar’s determination to judge the resignation of 3 MLAs pending a petition to initiate disqualification proceedings against them.
Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi has filed the PIL petition urging the tribunal to quash a gazette notification issued connected May 25, 2026 accepting the resignations of Maragatham Kumaravel, S. Jayakumar and P. Sathyabama who had represented Madurantakam, Perundurai and Dharapuram constituencies respectively.
