More families are setting up trusts to avoid paying inheritance tax, figures from HMRC suggest. Around 121,000 trusts were registered in the 2024-25 tax year, up from 115,000 the year before, taking ...

The widow and two daughters of LG’s former chairman sought to invalidate an inheritance agreement, claiming they were deceived into forfeiting their rightful inheritance. By Daisuke Wakabayashi and ...

Of 30 inscriptions uncovered at the Valley of Kings by Strauch and Schmid, 20 are in Tamil. CHENNAI: Around 2,000 years ago, a Tamil trader who visited the rock-cut tombs of Egyptian pharaohs ...

Oscar-winning composer A R Rahman has been conferred the Tamil Nadu State Award for Best Music Director for his work in Mani Ratnam’s historical epic Ponniyin Selvan – I. The recognition adds yet ...

Producer V. Tamil Azhagan, a prominent figure in Tamil cinema and the eldest son of late producer and politician R. M. Veerappan, passed away on February 14 due to age-related health issues. He was ...

The findings, which confirm that ancient Tamil traders travelled deep into the Egyptian interior for exploration and tourism, were presented by Swiss scholar Professor Ingo Strauch on the inaugural ...

When you die, estate planners say, one of the finest gifts you can leave your heirs is a plan for avoiding probate. Probate is a legal process that distributes a dead person’s assets and settles their ...

A path-breaking finding has shed new light on trade links between ancient Tamilagam, other parts of India and the Roman Empire. Two researchers have identified close to 30 inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi ...

Money Saving Expert founder Martin Lewis has shared a fail-safe and fully legal method to pass on as much as £1million to your children without them having to pay any Inheritance Tax on it. Many ...

Vijay targets DMK and AIADMK ahead of Tamil Nadu Assembly election in April He hit out at the DMK, his "political enemy" while going soft on AIADMK to attract swing voters Vijay likened his party's ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Inheritance tax (IHT) receipts rose to a total of £7.1 billion in the first 10 months of the ...

Superstar Rajinikanth took to X, formerly Twitter and mourned the loss of producer-director V. Tamil Azhagan. Both worked together in films like Thang Magan and Baashha. The producer who was the ...