New Delhi: Supreme Court Friday pulled up the Centre and Maharashtra government for not creating courts for cases under special statutes concerned that courts will be forced to grant bail to accused. The order of a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said,...
New Delhi: Justice Yashwant Varma, a sitting judge of the Allahabad High Court, has petitioned the Supreme Court challenging his indictment by the three-member in-house committee in the cash-discovery row. The writ petition filed before the top court also sought to quash the communication forwarded...
Raipur: In a politically charged development, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Friday arrested Chaitanya Baghel, son of former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, in connection with an alleged money laundering case linked to the multi-crore liquor scam in the state. The arrest took place at the...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday asked the Centre to decide on a representation seeking permission to travel to Yemen for negotiations to stall the execution of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya. A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was hearing a plea filed...
Hyderabad: The toll in the Sigachi Industries' pharma plant explosion in Sangareddy district of Telangana rose to 46 after the death of a person who was undergoing treatment in a hospital, a senior police official said Friday. The person who was injured in the June...
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered money laundering cases in three different scams that took place during the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi. The agency has filed Enforcement Case Information Reports (ECIRs), the equivalent of an FIR, in hospital construction, CCTV,...
New Delhi: Committing assault, theft or burglary in the United States won't just cause legal issues but could also lead to a visa being revoked and make that person "ineligible" for future US visas, the country's embassy in India has said. The stern warning comes...
New Delhi: India Thursday indicated that any revival of the Russia-India-China (RIC) mechanism hinges on the mutual convenience of the three countries. New Delhi's comments came hours after the Chinese foreign ministry said Beijing supports Russia's initiative to revive the RIC mechanism as it not...
New Delhi: The Centre has appointed Director of Census Operations (DCO) and Director of Citizen Registration (DCR) for Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, a government order said Thursday. M Sundaresh Babu, a 2012-batch IAS officer of the Karnataka cadre, has been appointed as...
New Delhi: India Thursday successfully test-fired nuclear-capable short-range ballistic missiles Prithvi-II and Agni-I from an integrated test range off the Odisha coast, demonstrating its strategic deterrence capability. The test-firing of the missiles, conducted by the elite Strategic Forces Command, validated all operational and technical parameters,...
The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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By Dilip Cherian The litany of extensions continues. The latest is Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, whose tenure the Modi...
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The angry young generation is rising in protest in India, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland and Serbia, to name a...
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