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MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday extended till February 17 its interim relief to troubled Avadhnama editor Shirin Dalvi from coercive steps, including arrest, by the state. A division bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice Anuja Prabhudessai was to hear a plea by Dalvi to club and quash multiple first information reports filed […]

Taking a serious view of a probe in a rape case being transferred from Agra to Firozabad without any concrete reason, and on the request of the accused’s brother, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday asked the Uttar Pradesh government about the basis on which the case was transferred. The court, which will hear the

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on was questioned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) for the second time in last four weeks in connection with the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. Tharoor was quizzed at the SIT office in Vasant Vihar in south Delhi on various aspects leading to Sunanda’s death. This is the

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government on Tuesday ruled out any weapons training incidents inside the controversial godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda. Haryana government informed HC that an inquiry conducted by a committee had not found any arms training on the dera premises by army personnel or anyone else. The report was also

MUMBAI: If anyone thought that N Srinivasan would be down and out after the Supreme Court verdict on January 22 which barred him from contesting the BCCI elections till he ceased to be the owner of his IPL team the Chennai Super Kings, he or she was wrong. Reliable sources have told TOI that the

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court refused to entertain petition by former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran, who wanted the Aircel-Maxis case against him to be tried by a normal court and not by 2G scam special court. Maran pleaded that the SC had barred only 2G scam accused from going to the Delhi high court. Maran said

A military judge is trying to decide whether the attempt to prosecute five prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept 11 attacks can resume after stalling for nearly a year because of the revelation of an apparent FBI investigation into members of one of the defense teams. The five defendants are expected back in court

Governor Ram Naik Friday cleared UP Control of Goonda (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015 bringing offences like cow slaughter, human trafficking, animal trafficking, money laundering, molestation, bonded labour, child labour and even manufacturing and trading of illegal arms under the provisions of the Goonda Act. The ordinance, which was recently cleared by the state Cabinet, was sent

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday refused to stay the screening of ‘MSG — Messenger of God’, the controversial film starring Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, paving the way for its scheduled release on February 13. The court, however, issued notices to the Censor Board, states of Haryana

A special court on Thursday granted bail to suspended additional director general of police (ADGP) PP Pandey in ​the ​2004 ​fake encounter case of ​Ishrat Jahan and three others. This is the first instance in which an accused has been granted ​regular bail. ​​Pandey is the seniormost IPS officer to be arrested in a fake