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NEW DELHI: The tussle for power between Delhi lieutenant general Najeeb Jung and the Arvind Kejriwal government will now play out in the courts. Both sides on Thursday knocked the doors of the courts. While the Kejriwal government challenged Centre’s notification giving lieutenant governor absolute powers in appointing bureaucrats in Delhi high court, the Centre […]

NEW DELHI: In a big relief to the Greenpeace India, the Delhi high court on Wednesday permitted it to use its two domestic accounts to receive fresh domestic donations. The court also pulled up banks for not following its earlier direction to allow the Greenpeace India to access its account. It also allowed the NGO,

The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the death warrants issued for execution of a girl and her lover, who were convicted killing seven members of her family in Uttar Pradesh in 2008. A bench led by Justice A K Sikri held the warrants issued by a court in Amroha as “defective” since it failed to

The Supreme Court has rejected the Mizoram government’s special leave petition against a lower court’s order that the Anti-Corruption Bureau investigate alleged misappropriation of funds in the construction of two mini hydel projects in south Mizoram. The SC’s dismissal of the government’s plea paves the way for the anti-graft agency to finally begin a probe

Warangal Police today uncovered a seven-member interstate burglary gang after arresting its kingpin, who was about to flee the state with loot worth Rs 24 lakhs. Accused Erdhar Pawar was arrested by detectives of Warangal Crime Branch when he was about to board a train to Bhopal from the local railway station, said Malla Reddy,

KARACHI: The Lahore high court has given a clean chit to Pakistan’s maverick former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who was fined seven million rupees and banned for five years by the PCB in 2008 for violating the players code of conduct. According to its detailed judgement the Lahore high court set aside the punishment and

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed Haryana Police to identify the beneficiaries of paper leak and other irregularities of the 2015-16 All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT). A bench led by Justice A K Sikri said that the court would first try to segregate those who benefitted from the illicit means from the genuine candidates so

MUMBAI: Aruna Shanbaug’s death on Monday, after 42 years of being in a vegetative state that was caused by a brutal sexual assault by ward boy Sohanlal Valmiki, has led to a spate of angry questions about the “lenient” punishment he walked away with. One on almost everyone’s lips is: Can’t he be tried again

NEW DELHI: An MBA student of Hissar-based Jindal Global University, who was allegedly raped by her seniors, has approached the Supreme Court saying police were trying the protect the accused at the behest of a Haryana MP and sought that the case be handed over to CBI. The 21-year old 2nd year student of integrated

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre, Haryana government, CBSE and Medical Council of India on a bunch of petitions demanding cancellation of the 2015-16 All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) examination on grounds of largescale irregularities. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and U U Lalit sought responses by May 21