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BENGALURU: The Karnataka government on Monday decided to file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court against Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa and three others, acquitted by the state high court in the disproportionate assets case. The decision was taken at the cabinet meeting following Special Public Prosecutor (SSP) BV Acharya and Karnataka […]

NEW DELHI: A special court will commence hearing final arguments in a 2G scam related money laundering case in which former telecom minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and 17 others are facing trial on Monday. The court had fixed the case for commencement of final arguments on April 17 after concluding the recording of

The Rajasthan High Court on Thursday rapped the Chief Secretary and the DGP for failing to arrest even a single Gujjar agitator and allowing people to suffer due to the “undemocratic” agitation which has crippled road and rail services in the state. Asking the officials to act immediately to remove all road and rail blockades,

The Supreme Court will hear on Friday an appeal by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) against the Delhi High Court order that termed as “suspect” a Centre’s notification, barring the Anti-corruption Branch (ACB) of Delhi government from acting against its officials. On Thursday, Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh mentioned the matter before the court

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