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MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Monday said children must be taught how to respect the national flag in their schools, while urging creating awareness rather than penal action against violators. A bench of Justice Naresh Patil and Justice V L Achilya heard a PIL to enforce an August 2007 state circular banning the use, […]

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected plea of Jat students seeking reservation in admission to PG medical and dental courses. Rejecting the plea, the Supreme Court said that at the time of All India counselling these Jat students were treated as OBCs. READ ALSO: SC quashes Centre’s decision to include Jats in OBC

Pakistan on Monday said India should “not jump the gun” as the case related to Mumbai terror attack mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi is “sub-judice”. India had conveyed its outrage after a court in Islamabad had earlier this month ordered release of Lashkar terrorist Lakhvi, who is responsible for 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, though he

CHENNAI: The Madras high court has directed police to register a first information report (FIR) against an IAS officer accused of cheating a doctor of Rs 50 lakh after promising an MBBS seat for his daughter. According to Dr MA Nizar Ahammed of Nungambakkam, IAS officer Mohanraj, who is at present deputy secretary in the

Amanda Knox, who maintained that she and her former Italian boyfriend were innocent in her British roommate’s murder through multiple trials and nearly four years in jail, was vindicated Friday when Italy’s highest court threw out their convictions once and for all. “Finished!” Knox’s lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova exulted after the decision was read out

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who appeared in a Mumbai Sessions Court today in the 2002 hit-and-run case, told the court that neither was he driving the car, nor was he drunk, when the accident took place. The actor told the court that his driver Ashok Singh was driving the car at the time of mishap.

MUMBAI: Acid attack victim Aarti Thakur may have to wait a little longer for her next round of surgery. Aarti’s advocate Gayatri Singh on Wednesday told the high court that she has learnt that the plastic surgeon, who was supposed to operate on Aarti, will not be available in the city for over a month.

The Ludhiana police landed in a tricky and awkward situation on Wednesday after two of its personnel were rushed to Mumbai to serve a notice to filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma under Section 66A of IT Act which was struck down by Supreme Court of India on Tuesday. More so, the policemen including an assistant sub-inspector

NEW DELHI: Expressing his disappointment over the CBI’s move to file a closure report giving clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 riots case, senior advocate HS Phoolka on Wednesday said that he would file a protest petition regarding the same. Phoolka said it is very unfortunate that the CBI quietly filed

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday, seeking to get summon against him quashed in a coal block allocation scam case. Opinion: The Hindalco contradiction Singh, who was also in charge of the coal ministry at the relevant time, has sought an immediate stay on the summing order, asking him to