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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

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday kept in place the ban on ‘cock-fighting’, a popular sport in rural coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, while requesting the high court to decide afresh the legality of the game. A bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu asked the HC to examine the issue in light

NEW DELHI: Coal scam cases continue to cause embarrassment to former CBI director Ranjit Sinha as the petitioner NGO on Monday placed before the Supreme Court details of meetings between Congress MP Vijay Darda and Sinha, leading to the ex-director’s attempts to close the case against him. Appearing for NGO ‘Common Cause’, advocate Prashant Bhushan

LONDON: After Taliban gunmen massacred dozens of schoolchildren in Peshawar last month, Pakistan’s two most powerful men convened an emergency meeting at army headquarters. Their body language, captured in a government-released photo, was revealing: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looked glum and ill at ease, while the man beside him, Gen. Raheel Sharif, the army chief,

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has directed the central government to enable e-voting by NRIs within eight weeks. Hearing a plea filed by Pravasi Bharat chairman Nagender Chindam, the SC bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu said that the NRIs must be allowed to e-vote within 8 weeks of elections. A committee comprising officials

Three police teams have been formed to apprehend the two assailants who shot dead Akhil Gupta, a witness in the rape case against Asaram Bapu in Surat, last evening. Akhil’s cousin Ashish Gupta has lodged an FIR against two unidentified persons, Senior Superintendent of Police H N Singh said. Three teams led by SP, city,

NEW DELHI: After a decade of high-pitched campaign for protection of rights of accused and some favourable judicial rulings, the Supreme Court on Thursday said it could not be stressed beyond a point to cast a shadow on the rights of victims’ families. The comment – “time has come to send out a message to