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MUMBAI: In a major victory for BJP president Amit Shah, a special CBI court in Mumbai on Tuesday held that there was no legal evidence against him in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case of 2005 and discharged him as an accused. “There is substance in the contention of Shah’s counsel S V Raju that […]

AGRA: Leaders of the Dhangars – a caste of herders from Agra and nearby regions who were recognized in 1950 as Scheduled Caste – held a mahapanchayat in Agra on Sunday and declared that if they were not given SC certificates in a month’s time, they would convert en masse to Christianity. Senior leaders of

NEW DELHI: The suspension of detention order for 26/11 mastermind Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi by Islamabad High Court on Monday sparked another round of outrage in India with New Delhi telling Pakistan that it was refusing to learn even from the recent barbaric killing of children in Peshawar. Foreign secretary Sujatha Singh summoned Pakistani high commissioner

NEW DELHI: Congress has slammed the BJP government for approving the ordinance to amend the Land Acquisition Act within a week of the end of the winter session of Parliament. The party said that changes in provisions in the law will have to stand scrutiny of Parliament during the budget session. “If you want to

NEW DELHI: We all are familiar with syringes. Since childhood, we have seen doctors, health assistants and nurses using it to inject vital medicinal liquid into our bodies for faster recovery. So much so that, doctors who prefer injections to tablets are popular in rural areas. Rural folk think that the injection of medicine into

NEW DELHI: The CBI courted a string of controversies in 2014, including those surrounding its chief Ranjit Sinha and the Supreme Court’s reprimands over closure reports in coal scam cases and flip-flops in 2G probe, as it tried to keep its reputation as the nation’s premier investigating agency. The case of the mysteriopus death of

NEW DELHI: From scams in coal, cricket to CBI, the Supreme Court’s orders and observations in dealing with these cases in 2014 dealt a heavy blow to the credibility of the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government indirectly helping the Narendra Modi-led BJP to stage a stunning victory in the general elections. In maintaining the supremacy of

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI: Islamabad high court on Monday suspended the detention order of ZakiurRehmanLakhvi, the key planner of 2008 Mumbai attacks, according to Times Now. Lakhvi had challenged his detention under a public security order in the high court here after the Pakistan government rejected his plea seeking release. In the petition Lakhvi’s counsel Raja Rizwan

NEW DELHI: Former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti on Friday won relief from the Delhi high court which set aside an NHRC order passed against him unilaterally in connection with the Khirki Extension raid. A vacation bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Manmohan Singh quashed the September 29 NHRC order as it was passed without

NEW DELHI: Startling facts revealed by probe agencies on plots hatched by banned outfits made headlines in 2014 in Delhi courts which noted that Osama bin Laden was still the driving force for terror groups following footsteps of ISIS to create situation like Iraq and Syria. A tug of war was also witnessed between a