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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

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday set aside the lower court order summoning as accused Bharti Airtel CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal and Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia in the 2G spectrum allocation case. However, the trial judge is at liberty to summon them at any stage if material on record is found, the apex

BENGALURU: A rampaging mob ransacked a private school, attacked policemen and set three two-wheelers on fire after parents gathered in front of the institution and accused a PT teacher of sexually harassing a seven-year-old student, in southwest Bengaluru, on Wednesday. Hale Guddadahalli, off Mysuru Road, where the school is located, saw pitched battles between violent

GUWAHATI: A joint team of the Army’s Red Horns division and Assam Police apprehended two National Democratic Front of Boroland (Songbijit) rebels near Tipkai in Kokrajhar district on Tuesday. The sleuths found one 9 mm and one 7.62 mm pistol and live ammunition on them. “These rebels were given the task of recruiting new cadres

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said late Tuesday that the state of Palestine will join the International Criminal Court on April 1, a high-stakes move that will enable the Palestinians to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel. The Palestinians submitted the documents ratifying the Rome Statute that established the court last Friday, the last formal step to