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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday reiterated its stand that Aadhar cards will not be mandatory for availing government benefits including subsidies. The top court asked the Centre to follow its 2013 order on the issue. The apex court had in October 2013 refused to make Aadhar card compulsory for availing social benefits, turning down […]

Former Telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanithi Maran Monday filed separate petitions challenging the jurisdiction of special 2G court to try the Aircel-Maxis deal case in which they have been summoned as accused along with others. Special CBI judge O P Saini issued notice to the CBI seeking their response on the pleas

MUMBAI: A married person cannot take advantage of his or her own wrong to seek divorce, the Bombay high court said while dismissing a woman’s case for grant of divorce on her admission of having deserted her husband. The woman, Malini Videshi (name changed) had challenged the Bandra family court’s refusal to pass divorce orders

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to deal with an iron hand, cases where rape videos were being uploaded and circulated on social networking sites. It also directed the CBI to bring to justice those committing rapes and sharing videos through messenger services like WhatsApp. The court slammed the home ministry

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI: The Islamabad high court on Friday ordered the release of 2008 Mumbai attack accused and Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi by declaring his third-time detention orders void, drawing a strong protest from the Indian government. The foreign ministry summoned Pakistani high commissioner Abdul Basit to convey India’s outrage , saying this went against

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government would table a bill before the state assembly on Monday to make cow slaughter punishable by up to 10-year imprisonment. The proposed move comes days after another BJP-ruled state ? Maharashtra ? imposed a five-year jail term for cow slaughter. READ ALSO: Bombay HC directs police to ensure beef ban Cow

The Delhi High Court today set aside the look out circular issued against Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai who was offloaded from a flight to London two months back, saying her fundamental right to travel cannot be curtailed. Justice Rajiv Shakdher, while upholding her right to travel abroad, also said Pillai has every right to hold

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Thursday declined to immediately revoke the ban on the telecast of controversial BBC documentary “India’s Daughter” on the December 16, 2012, gang-rape. A division bench of Justice BD Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva posted the two public interest litigations (PILs) for revocation of the ban on the documentary’s

NEW DELHI: In a relief to former IPL chief Lalit Modi, Rajasthan High Court on Thursday accepted lapses in the recent Rajasthan Cricket Association polls and ordered the body office to be sealed. Modi was removed as the RCA president after a no confidence motion was passed against him by office bearers of the rival

NEW DELHI: Former PM Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday that he was upset over a Delhi court’s decision to issue him summons to appear as an accused in a coal scam case. “I am upset, but this is a part of life,” Manmohan Singh told reporters on Wednesday. “I am sure that the truth will