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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

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI: A Pakistani anti-terrorist court in Quetta has indicted former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in the the murder case of Baloch tribal leader Akbar Bugti, TV channels reported on Wednesday. The court was hearing the case relating to the murder of Bugti who was killed in an army operation in 2006. Musharraf was the

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed ailing Italian marine Massimiliano Latorre, facing murder charges for killing Indian fishermen, to stay in Italy for three more months. Earlier, Latorre was allowed by the apex court to go to Italy on September 12, last year for four months for medical treatment and recovery after he

Bollywood actor Salman Khan suffered a setback on Wednesday as the Supreme Court set aside an order suspending his conviction in a poaching case. The court found infirmities in the Rajasthan High Court order of suspending Khan’s conviction to let him travel to UK for film shoots and held this reason was not good enough.

The US Supreme Court has denied an appeal by India-born former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta, who had challenged a ruling by a lower court permanently banning him from from serving as an officer or director of a public company. In the Supreme Court order issued yesterday, Gupta’s certiorari was denied, in effect keeping intact