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NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday made it clear that the party is unhappy with its senior leader Kapil Sibal for representing the West Bengal government in the Saradha chit fund scam case in the Supreme Court, two days after its state unit revolted against the move and complained to the party high command about its […]

Holding that the orders by the chief judicial magistrate were “illegal”, the special court for CBI on Tuesday declared that three of the accused in the admission scam for admission in Punjab Engineering College (PEC) which had hit headlines in October 2010, should be tried as adults. Accused Lovkesh Bhayana, Yogesh Bhayana and Garvit Nain

JALANDHAR: In a declaratory lawsuit filed by a US based rights group to designate Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” (FTO), a US Court has summoned US Secretary of state John Kerry to submit a reply within 60 days. The summons were issued by the District Court of Southern District of New

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay the panchayat elections in Rajasthan. “Prima facie you have good case, but you have to satisfy the HC first,” apex court told the petitioner who has challenged govt decision. The top court also asked Rajasthan HC to decide expeditiously validity of state govt decision fixing

NEW DELHI: With senior Congressman and former Union minister Kapil Sibal defending West Bengal government and Trinamool Congress general secretary Mukul Roy in the Saradha scam case in Supreme Court, massive protests erupted in the state Congress unit on Monday, leaving the party high command in a fix. West Bengal government was represented by Kapil

AMRITSAR: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has written to Indian embassy in Abu Dhabi to furnish its report on the alleged incident of forced conversion in a prison there. Commission’s vice-chairman Raj Kumar Verka wrote to the embassy on Monday after meeting Balbir Singh, whose son Sukhwant Singh Bony, was being forced to

NEW DELHI: Health conscious people are generally taken in by manufacturers advertising aerated water as fruit juice but some of these drinks have less than 13% fruit juice content. Shocked by this fact, the Supreme Court on Monday came down heavily on one such manufacturer. It asked unscrupulous manufacturers to stop taking people for a

NEW DELHI: In an effort to bring down pendency of cases in courts, both the Centre and states have decided to withdraw ‘frivolous and ineffective cases’. The law ministry has drawn a 10-point litigation policy and shared it with states while asking them to review all pending litigations. States and central government departments have been

NEW DELHI: The Supreme court has stayed the trial of Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal, charged for allegedly raping a junior colleague, for three weeks. Hearing Tarun Tejpal’s plea, the apex court on Friday granted him three weeks to collect necessary documents. Tejpal’s appeal, filed by advocate Sandeep Kapur, had contended that the session court while

NEW DELHI: A majority of states were opposed to any attempt at creating a special cadre to investigate crimes independent of the law-enforcement machinery, the central government told the Supreme Court as it began grappling afresh with the issue of ushering in major police reforms. Amicus curiae Harish Salve had suggested this as a way