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Five men were behind bars Sunday either charged or suspected in the killing of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, but details remained unclear in the case that has shaken Russia’s marginalized and struggling opposition movement. The five appeared in a Moscow court, where two of them were charged in connection with the shooting of Nemtsov as […]

HYDERABAD: A special court here is slated to pronounce the much-awaited judgment in the multi-crore accounting fraud in the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Limited (SCSL) on April 9. During the last hearing on December 23, 2014, special judge BVLN Chakravarthi had said that he would pronounce the verdict on April 9, citing voluminous documents of

KOCHI: A decision taken by the central government after the Khobragade row for not allowing Indians who accept Trafficking (T) visas issued by the United States to fly there is against fundamental rights, says the Kerala High Court. Issued to victims of human trafficking, a T visa allows the holder to stay in the US

The Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld the conviction of former Haryana chief minister O P Chautala, his son Ajay Chautala and 53 others in the 1999 JBT teacher recruitment scam. READ: Chautala Chronology The court of Justice Siddharth Mridul has upheld the 10-year jail sentence given by the trial court in 2013 to O

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) monitoring the MPPEB scam has itself landed in trouble with the high court asking it to explain the circumstances in which it accepted a request to visit Delhi to examine the evidence submitted by AICC general secretary Digvijaya Singh. The court order has come in response to an objection raised

Delhi Police on Tuesday obtained a restraining order from a court against the broadcast of a documentary film, which features an interview of December 16 rapist Mukesh Singh. An FIR against unknown persons was also registered in the matter on Tuesday night, a day after excerpts of the interview were made public. The restraining order

With the President giving assent to the Bill, which prohibits slaughter and sale of any cow progeny (bullocks and bulls) in Maharashtra, the Bombay High Court (HC) on Tuesday directed the Mumbai Police Commissioner and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) chief to take action against those who carry out slaughter at Deonar abattoir. The same will

NEW DELHI: Bihar continues to operate the highest number of fast track courts in the country with 179 of them functional as of last month. Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, UP, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat are others with high number of such courts. The Centre plans to encourage setting up of at least 1,800 fast

Indian weddings may be globally known as ‘big fat weddings’, but it didn’t find much favour with a city court on Tuesday. The court frowned on the money pumped into such lavish affairs and asked if being known for ‘big fat weddings’ should be taken as a compliment. “India has the largest number of hungry

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court’s Rs 2,700 crore e-courts project, touted to inject vitality into a snail-paced justice delivery system groaning under huge pendency, has been gathering dust for the last 14 months with the government. The earnest resolve of successive governments to speed up disposal of cases has seldom been matched with adequate funds