Faridkot (Punjab), April 2 (IANS) A local court here on Saturday acquitted Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in a 17-year-old assault case. Sukhbir Badal, also president of the ruling Akali Dal, was present…
Jammu, April 2 (IANS) The operative principles of the Indian Constitution, fraternity, dignity, and unity can only be sought through justice, liberty and equality, Vice President Hamid Ansari said here on Saturday. Delivering the 16th…
Washington, April 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the issue of change in Tier-2 visa rules with his British counterpart David Cameron during a bilateral meeting here on the sidelines of the Fourth Nuclear…
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra), April 2 (IANS) A day after the Bombay High Court ruled that no law prevented women’s entry into places of worship, women activists seeking entry were assaulted and prevented by villagers from praying…
Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) The Election Commission on Saturday barred political parties and candidates in West Bengal and Assam from giving any print media advertisement on April 3 and April 4 for the first phase…
New York, April 2 (IANS) An Arab-American family slammed United Airlines after its staff removed them from a flight in an incident that they claimed was “profiling” and “discrimination at its finest”. On March 20,…
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday declined a PIL by the former top cop Julio Riberio and other eminent people seeking setting up of a machinery to verify the assets declared…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) As the government on Friday enforced the much debated 85 percent pictorial warnings on packets of all tobacco products, manufacturer across the country decided to halt production, citing ambiguity in…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The central government is on a sticky wicket over its decision to impose President’s Rule in Uttarakhand, Congress sources said here on Friday. The sources insisted that state governor Krishan…
Mumbai, April 1 (IANS) A special CBI court here n Friday rejected the bail plea on health grounds filed by former media baron Indrani Mukerjea – one of the prime accused in the Sheena Bora…
Islamabad, April 1 (IANS) In a bizarre diktat, a Jirga – elders’ body – has reportedly settled a gang rape case for a compensation of 30 mounds of wheat in Sindh province of Pakistan, the…
By Darshan Desai Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh), April 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court has directed the Madhya Pradesh High Court not to even open the commission report on relief and rehabilitation work undertaken by the state…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday reprimanded Bihar and five other states for having “adopted lackadaisical attitude” in the rehabilitation of 740 bonded child labourers, mostly from Bihar,…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday stayed the notification on imposition of 14 percent service tax on senior advocates and issued notice to the central government. A division bench of…
Shimla, April 1 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Friday expressed displeasure over the state government’s status report on jaundice outbreak and directed the chief secretary to file another report on the steps taken…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Citing ambiguity on the enforcement of 85 percent pictorial warnings on packets of all tobacco products, the Indian tobacco industry announced on Friday that it will halt production of all…
Lucknow, April 1 (IANS) The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday sought the Uttar Pradesh government’s response to a petition filed over the three-month extension granted to Chief Secretary Alok Ranjan. Hearing…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Haryana on Friday told the Supreme Court that 2004 Punjab law terminating all water sharing agreements with neighbouring Haryana, Rajasthan, and Delhi breached principles of separation of powers and was…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission on Friday issued notices to the commerce and health ministries over reports that India has reassured the US-India Business Council to take a restrained approach…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) A sessions court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for fatally stabbing a woman neighbour he was obsessed with after her marriage was fixed elsewhere. Convicting Rohit, in…