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Tuesday, January 31, 2017,
New Delhi
The Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed the Tamil Nadu government for allowing people to defy its order on jallikattu, and for failing to maintain law and order in the state. The court had banned the controversial sport in 2014, on the grounds that it was cruel to bulls.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017,
New Delhi
The Animal Welfare Board of India has moved the Supreme Court challenging the new Act allowing the traditional sport of Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu. The court has listed the matter for January 30 along with the Centre’s plea to withdraw the 2016 notification allowing Jallikattu.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017,
Chennai
Tamil Nadu was rocked by violence by Jalikattu protesters in several parts of the State, affecting normalcy, even as the State Assembly unanimously adopted the Bill to replace the Ordinance paving the way for holding the Jallikattu events.
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Monday, January 23, 2017,
Chennai
Two persons were killed and 82 others suffered minor injuries during Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu’s Pudukottai district on January 22 as the Tamil Nadu Government said the ban on Jallikattu events had been lifted through the ordinance. One person died due to dehydration in Madurai during protests, police said.
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Monday, January 23, 2017,
Chennai
The pro-Jallikattu agitation turned violent near the Chennai Marina Beach on January 23 as a section of them set on fire several vehicles parked in front of the Vivekananda House police station. Police resorted to teargas shells and lathi charge in some areas to disperse protestors and bring the situation under control.
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Monday, January 23, 2017,
Chennai
Tamil Nadu police swung into action on January 23 morning to evict protestors on the Jallikattu issue. In many areas, police succeeded in evicting them peacefully but there was sporadic violence in some places including Chennai as police used teargas shells and a mild lathi charge to evict protestors on road roko.
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Sunday, January 22, 2017,
Chennai
The Tamil Nadu government ordinance to allow the holding of Jallikattu, and the act of the State Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, to personally be present at the event at Alanganallur in Madurai, supervising the arrangements, and the Union Government’s assent to the State ordinance, raise a pertinent question of law – is there a rule of law in the State and at the Centre?
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Friday, January 20, 2017,
Chennai
AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala on January 20 reviewed the situation relating to Jallikattu with party leaders, and instructed
CM O Panneerselvam and senior party leaders to make arrangements for holding the Jallikattu at the earliest in accordance with the
wishes of the people. The stage is set for an early Jallikattu event at Vaadivaasal.
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Friday, January 20, 2017,
Chennai
Tamil film actors Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Surya, Ajith, Dhanush, Vishal and others observed a day's fast organised by the South Indian
Film Artistes Association (Nadigar Sangam) on January 20 in support of the call for Jallikattu events in the State. They demanded
lifting of the ban on Jallikattu. Music director A R Rahman too observed a day long fast to express his solidarity with the cause.
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Friday, January 20, 2017,
Chennai
DMK working president M K Stalin led thousands of DMK workers in a Rail Roko agitation to protest the ban on Jallikattu and
demanding that the sport be held. Stalin and several thousand DMK leaders and workers were arrested in various parts of Tamil
Nadu.
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Friday, January 20, 2017,
Chennai
The Tamil Nadu government draft ordinance to allow the holding of Jallikattu in the State has been handed over to the Centre and will
be implemented by Sunday after getting the President's assent on January 21. Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam, said on his
return from Delhi after meeting legal experts, that the Jallikattu event would be held on Sunday, if all goes well as per schedule.
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Thursday, January 19, 2017,
Chennai
Music meastro A R Rahman has said that he would undertake a fast in Chennai on January 20 to press the demand for lifting the ban on Jallikattu. The South Indian Film Artistes Association (Nadigar Sangam) also said its members would observe a fast on January 20 to press the demand.
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Thursday, January 19, 2017,
New Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ruled out issuing an ordinance to enable holding of Jallikattu. When Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam raised the issue of the Jallikattu ban, and urged the Centre to issue an ordinance to allow the bull-fight, the Prime Minister is understood to have told the CM that the matter was sub judice and therefore there was no way the Centre could issue an ordinance at this juncture.
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Thursday, January 19, 2017,
New Delhi
Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam, after a morning meeting with PM Modi, said the State and the Central governments would soon take steps to ensure that Jallikattu was conducted.
