A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said the issue of Karti Chidambaram visiting abroad is not an "important matter" requiring urgent hearing. Declining urgent hearing, the top court observed that judges have more cases "than they can handle".
Anjuli Pandit alleges that the harassment case against the then CEO and MD, Rakesh Saran, pertains to 2015 and despite her filing several complaints with Taj Hotel, the company failed to probe the case. Instead, she was asked to resign and offered an alternative "mediocre" role in Taj Sons forcing her to resign.
Two militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police said. "Security forces launched an operation based on credible inputs about the presence of militants in Zagoo locality of Khansahib area in the district," a police official said.
Previously, the SC adopted a cautious approach by asking the Centre to file details of the decision-making process in sealed cover with the Secretary General of the SC and not with the registry. On Wednesday, the SC was keen that all possible details of the Rafale deal, excluding sensitive information, be placed in public domain. Next hearing is on Nov 14.
The government has decided to take over the Herald House building in central Delhi, belonging to Congress’ mouthpiece ‘National Herald’, for violation of conditions on which the land was allotted. Sources said the plot was allocated for installing a press to print ‘National Herald’ but is not used for any printing activity.
Thousands of tweets hit Twitter under the hashtag #pornban, with users saying this goes against net neutrality laws in India, which prohibit discrimination against any content provider. Users feel the government should have taken strong action against child porn and rape porn, and not against the more well-known porn websites.
‘Dynamic pricing’ will be scrapped for 15 trains and suspended for the 'lean months' of February, March and August for 32 others. The new plan also lowers the ceiling for dynamic pricing to 1.4 times of the last fare for the remaining 101 trains under the scheme and offers up to 20% discount on ‘last-minute’ bookings made up to four days before the journey.
Any agency in Delhi needs to take written permission from the home secretary for executing lawful interception of any phone number. They also need to justify why they need to tap that particular number. However, there is a provision in Indian Telegraph Act for 'emergency cases' in which a top officer of that agency can provisionally authorise the interception.
Big data analytics and global media intelligence firm Meltwater has said India has been the most vocal about the #MeToo movement, with 25% of the global chatter about it stemming from the country. The data mined between October 1 and 30 this year showed the movement found 28,900 mentions in editorial news.
The judgment overturned a trial court's acquittal in 2015 of the accused. The Delhi HC bench said it was a case of "targeted killings of persons belonging to one minority community". 16 former UP Provincial Armed Constabulary personnel have been convicted of shooting dead 42 Muslim men in Meerut's Hashimpura area on the night of May 22, 1987.
A govt source said the note giving ‘details of the steps in the decision-making process leading to the award of 36 Rafale fighter jets’ to the SC was meant only for the judges’ eyes and would not be shared with the parties or petitioners. The SC direction would be complied with after redacting the note of sensitive and technical details.
"The court would like to be apprised of the details with regard to the pricing/cost, particularly the advantage thereof, if any, which again will be submitted to the court in sealed cover," ordered the SC bench. It also directed the Centre to place in the public domain details about the process used for the induction of offset partners, which include Reliance Defence.
Reversing an order of the trial court in 2015 that acquitted the 16 personnel, Delhi HC sentenced 16 former policemen to life imprisonment. The court also said it was conscious that for the families of those killed, this was perhaps "too little, too late" as they have had to wait for 31 years for justice.
Senior advocate Rebecca John, representing the victims, said they have received over Rs 1 lakh each as compensation. The court was informed by the counsel for national human rights commission (NHRC) that many of the victims are illiterate and dependant women whose husbands were killed.
Supreme Court has turned down the plea of Amrapali group to allow its CMD Anil Sharma and two directors to visit their homes to celebrate Diwali with their family and said that they will remain in police custody till all documents pertaining to financial transactions of the company are not made available to forensic auditor.
India had become a leading manufacturer of mobiles with over 100 factories producing them now under his government compared to only two that existed when he came to power in 2014, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has sent a legal notice to Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for stating in a press conference that "Tharoor is an accused in a case of murder."
“All those in BJP, RSS and company need to apologise, especially to the people of Bahujan Samaj, for terming the statues installed by the then BSP govt to honour icons like Ambedkar and others as wasteful expenditure," Mayawati said in a statement hours after inauguration of Rs 3,000-crore statue of Sardar Patel in Gujarat.
The alert of a landslide and subsequent formation of an artificial lake was informed to India late Monday evening, separately through diplomatic channels and the mechanism under which China shares hydrological data with Brahmaputra, the official added.
The Enforcement Directorate has opposed the bail plea of P Chidambaram and has sought the custodial interrogation of the senior Congress leader in the Aircel Maxis case.
AP is building a world-class and India's first 'Justice City' in Amaravati with the vision to provide a state-of-the-art ecosystem built on latest technology for supporting the judicial system. "Once the Justice City is ready, Amaravati will be the first city in India dedicated to Justice," said Sreedhar Cherukuri, commissioner, APCRDA. Congress president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday accused the government of "treason", saying there was a "systematic destruction" of institutions that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had helped build. His remarks came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the 'Statue of Unity' of Patel in Gujarat.
The 182-metre statue, the world's tallest, has been built on an islet near the Sardar Sarovar Dam in Narmada district. It is twice the height of the Statue of Liberty in the US.
A Supreme Court bench, in a hearing held on Friday, stayed Para 77 of the High Court order, which effectively tied the hands of the Election Commission from acting on any instance of paid news.
It may be recalled that Modi had skipped visiting Male in 2015, when he went on a trip to other Indian Ocean Region countries in the vicinity of the Maldives.
India has slammed Pakistan for raising the Kashmir issue at a UN General Assembly session, saying it has become Islamabad's habit to misuse any forum for "narrow political gains" and asserting that the right to self-determination cannot be abused to undermine a nation's territorial integrity.
The ruling TMC, however, refused to attach any importance to either Shah's rath yatras or events organised by the opposition, saying people of the state were firmly with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Former Union minister M J Akbar on Wednesday appeared before a Delhi court to record his statement in a criminal defamation case filed by him against journalist Priya Ramani. Multiple women have come out with accounts of alleged sexual harassment by Akbar when he was a journalist.
Srinagar's agricultural university has welcomed Swiss Saanen goats, sparking immense interest for their high milk yield with less feed. ...
