Government plans to make inheritance tax due on pensions, plus other changes to IHT rules, have seen a leap in people enquiring about the use of trusts to protect their wealth. So what are trusts, and ...

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 ...

The Labour government has announced a significant climbdown on its policy of inheritance tax for farmers following a major backlash. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) ...

Madurai: Veteran Tamil nationalist writer and thinker Aru Gopalan, popularly known as Arugo, died on Tuesday morning after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 88. Leaders and scholars expressed ...

Over 97 lakh voters have been deleted from Tamil Nadu's draft roll released on Friday after the Special Intensive Revision. The names of over 97 lakh voters have been deleted over several reasons such ...

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 fatal stabbings of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, the photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, have sparked widespread grieving. This tragedy, discovered on Dec. 14, 2025, is ...

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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 ...

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 ...