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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

JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir government today said that Disturbed Areas Act (DAA) 1997 has lapsed and is not in force in the state. Rejecting a resolution regarding revocation of DAA brought by National Conference member Bashir Ahmed Veeri in the Legislative Council today, its chairman Amrit Malhotra said that the government has informed that Jammu

Bollywood actor Salman Khan was yesterday (March 24th) asked by a sessions court to appear before it on March 27 for recording his statement on prosecution evidence in the 2002 hit-and-run case, in which he is charged with killing one and injuring four others by ramming his car into a shop. (Read: Salman Khan did

In a landmark judgment on the Right to Freedom of Speech on the Internet, the Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed Section 66A of the Information Technology Act that empowers the police to make arrests over contentious social media posts. It ruled that the law violate people’s fundamental right to speech and expression. Here are 5

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday gave Sahara group three months to submit final proposal to raise funds to repay investors’ money raised by the company in 2008 and 2009. The apex court allowed Sahara to sell part of Aamby Valley township near Mumbai to raise funds The SC also gave permission to US-based

“Sting has lost the venom, this is how the present case can be described.” These were the first remarks made by a Delhi court while discharging 32 officials of the Sales Tax department facing corruption charges due to a sting operation. The court discharged all the accused under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act,

BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court on Sunday ordered the CID not to make or publish any interim report on its inquiry into the mysterious death of IAS officer D K Ravi. Hearing a writ petition at his residence, Justice S Abdul Nazeer said in his interim order: “The respondents are restrained from making or publishing