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J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Chief minister Omar Abdullah has made a sharp and clear demand for the immediate restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood, asserting it as a “fundamental right” of its people and warning against any half-measures like a “hybrid system” where key powers remain with the Centre.In a…
Russia: Four people died in truck accident in Kuzbass Four people died in an accident with a truck and a car in Kuzbass. This was reported on July 19 in the press service of the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.It is specified that the accident occurred on the 74th km of the…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi forest department has informed the Supreme Court that a “fake permission” was fraudulently issued in the name of the deputy conservator of forests, allowing tree felling in the ecologically sensitive Ridge area of Vasant Kunj for a housing project. The disclosure came in an affidavit submitted in response to a petition…
NEW DELHI: With long delay in trials in hundreds of NIA investigated cases relating to terrorism and heinous crimes, Supreme Court on Friday said designating existing courts as special NIA courts was unacceptable and gave an ultimatum to the Union and Maharashtra govts to set up new, exclusive special courts for trial in these cases…
RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s plea seeking a stay on trial court proceedings in the CBI’s land-for-jobs case, linked to appointments made during his tenure as railway minister between 2004 and 2009. A bench comprising Justices M M…
NEW DELHI: Brutality of offence cannot be the sole criterion to award death punishment and mitigating circumstances, including socio-economic background and psychological state of the convict, must also be considered, Supreme Court has said while commuting the death sentence of two convicts in two different cases. It condemned them to spend the rest of their…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Thursday accused the Election Commission of acting as the BJP’s “election chori wing,” claiming it is helping the saffron party commit voter fraud ahead of the upcoming Bihar assembly polls.He reposted a video on X, which claims that government officials were…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday turned the tables on a married woman, who sought cancellation of anticipatory bail to a man accused of raping her on promise of marriage, by warning her she might be liable for prosecution for having a physical relationship with a man other than her husband during subsistence of her…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the special committee constituted by the ministry of information and broadcasting to decide by Monday pleas opposing screening of censor board-cleared ‘Udaipur Files: Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder’ on the ground that the movie, based on the beheading of the Udaipur tailor for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad, marked shocking…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the Haryana Special Investigation Team (SIT) for allegedly expanding the scope of its probe against Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, who is facing two FIRs for online posts during Operation Sindoor.A bench led by Justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta asked the SIT to confine…
