The Supreme Court Tuesday issued notice to the CBI on the petitions filed by DMK leader Kanimozhi and others seeking the quashing of the charges framed against them in the 2G case being heard by a special court on day to day basis. A bench of Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan while issuing […]
Taking a serious view of the sodomy and murder of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy, the Delhi High Court Tuesday upheld the life sentence given to the convict and ordered that the term of sentence will remain “till the rest of his life”. A bench of Justice Kailash Gambhir and Justice Sunita Gupta rejected the appeal of […]
Two BJP leaders Tuesday filed petitions in the Delhi High Court seeking the cancellation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Law Minister Somnath Bharti’s election for exceeding the expenditure limit for last December’s assembly polls. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Vijender Gupta and Arti Mehra moved the high court alleging that Kejriwal and Bharti spent […]
Eastern Army Commander Lt. Gen. M.M.S. Rai Tuesday reviewed the preparedness and the security situation of the operational areas in the Sikkim and north Bengal sectors at the Sino-Indian border. Rai is on a two-day visit to these sectors after having taken over the charge of the Eastern Command earlier this month, a defence release […]
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ensure release of 25 Indian fishermen taken into custody by the Sri Lankan Navy Tuesday to facilitate fishermen-level talks between the two countries. In a letter to Manmohan Singh Tuesday, the text of which was released to the media here, Jayalalithaa while referring […]
Holding the action and procedure adopted to deprive a person of life or liberty must be fair, just and reasonable, the Supreme Court Tuesday framed guidelines for removing the disparities in implementation of existing laws for death row convicts. “It is well-settled law that executive action and legal procedure adopted to deprive a person of […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was hospitalised Wednesday morning due to severe lung congestion, an AAP party member said. He was not well last night and was taken to Yashoda hospital near his residence in Kaushambi by his wife early in the morning. He has been suffering from severe cough for the past several days. […]
Six Shiv Sena MPs were in touch with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and wanted its tickets to contest the next Lok Sabha elections, a top party leader claimed here Monday. NCP’s Maharashtra unit chief Bhaskar Jadhav, a former Shiv Sena leader, told media persons that the six SS MPs – whom he did not […]
Indian Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad Monday launched the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) here to provide health security to the urban poor, amounting to about 200 crore people. “The mission envisages setting up health check-up infrastructure and create manpower for the welfare of the poor dwelling in cities and towns on the lines of […]
In yet another incident of gangrape in the eastern metropolis, a 21-year-old mall employee, returning home in a shared taxi, was dragged out and assaulted by some of her co-passengers, police said Monday. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee assured stringent action against the perpetrators, while opposition parties attacked her government for the rising crimes against women […]