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ISLAMABAD: Legal loopholes in the Mumbai terror attack case led to the granting of bail to its alleged mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) stated here in a written order. The order added that weak evidence, registration of the FIR invoking irrelevant sections against the suspect, the “never-ending” trial and hearsay evidence went […]

JALANDHAR (Punjab): Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials are questioning Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia with regard to a multi-million rupee international synthetic drugs racket busted last year. Majithia, who was summoned by ED, appeared at its office in Jalandhar on Friday for questioning in connection with alleged money laundering drugs case. READ ALSO: Drug racket case

HYDERABAD: The much awaited verdict in the Satyam multi-crore scam case filed by the CBI, which was supposed to be delivered on Tuesday, is now scheduled to be pronounced on March 9, 2015. Hyderabad’s 21st additional chief metropolitan magistrate B V L N Chakravarthy, who heard the case on Tuesday, cited the voluminous records involved

NEW DELHI: Terming it “premature”, the Delhi high court on Tuesday dismissed AAP leader Somnath Bharti’s plea challenging the NHRC order on the controversial midnight raid early this year. Justice V K Shali said that since National Human Rights Commission has agreed to hear Bharti and is expected to give its decision on January 13,

The Consumer Protection Act excludes services for “commercial purpose” from its purview, but does not define this term. This has lead to chaos as the term is being interpreted differently by different judges and there is no consistency. Hence, outcome of the case has no judicial certainty and depends on the luck of the party.

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama moved to prevent US anger at North Korea from spiraling out of control on Sunday by saying the massive hacking of Sony Pictures was not an act of war but instead was cyber-vandalism. Washington’s longstanding dispute with North Korea, which for years has centered on its nuclear weapons program, has

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has held that phone chargers sold with mobile phone should be taxed separately as it is not part of phone but an accessory and turned down a plea by Nokia for treating charger and mobile as a composite product. The apex court said that merely making one package of cell

NEW DELHI: Recovery of excess amount paid to Class-III and Class-IV employees due to employer’s mistake is not permissible in law, the Supreme Court has ruled saying that it would cause extremely harsh consequences to them who are totally dependent on their wages to run their family. The apex court said employees of lower rung

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday strongly condemned grant of bail to 26/11 key plotter Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, saying India’s disappointment had been conveyed to Pakistan in the sternest of words as the relief to the top Lashkar terrorist soon after the murder of school children in Peshawar comes as a shock. Speaking in

HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI: For a government that claims only bureaucrats above board will be appointed to senior positions, it came as an embarrassment on Friday as education secretary SN Mohanty appeared before a special CBI court in Hyderabad along with 11 other accused in a disproportionate assets case against YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy. Charge-sheeted