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Former BSP MP Dhananjay Singh was on Friday acquitted by a Delhi Court of the charges of raping and criminally intimidating a woman after the alleged victim turned hostile. Additional Sessions Judge Sarita Birbal freed Singh, a former MP from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, noting that the 42-year-old woman had deposed in the court that […]

JODHPUR: A local court here on Thursday rejected an application of actor Salman Khan seeking permission to summon the then DCP and DM of Mumbai as witness in a case filed against him under Arms Act. The case has to do with the expiry of the licence for guns used by him to the allegedly

NEW DELHI: A special court’s order on the coal block allocation case has raised fears of a fresh round of policy paralysis as scared bureaucrats may drag their feet on decisions involving large contracts and projects. Earlier this week a special court hearing the coal block case asked the CBI to record the statement of

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday scrapped an inquiry committee set up by the Madhya Pradesh high court chief justice to probe the sexual harassment complaint filed by a former woman additional district judge posted in Gwalior. Observing that the HC chief justice didn’t have the “authority” to set up the panel, the apex

LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has said that “courts should ensure that religious conversion has not been done forcibly or frequently or under allurement as conversion from one religion to another is a tricky issue.” The Bench of Justice DP Singh and Justice Rajiv Sharma was hearing the plea by a

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today gave green signal to Uttar Pradesh government to appoint 70,000 assistant teachers in primary schools on the basis of 2011 Teacher Eligibility Test on merit basis. A bench of justices Dipak Misra and U U Lalit said all general category candidates who scored 70% marks in TET would be

In a first, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed for an in-house probe against a sitting Madhya Pradesh High Court judge, to look into sexual harassment allegations by a former woman judge against him. A bench led by Justice J S Khehar quashed the ongoing in-house inquiry ordered by the HC Chief Justice while holding

CHENNAI: More than six years after Kannada was declared a classical language, albeit with a condition that it would be subject to the outcome of a petition pending before the Madras high court, the Karnataka government has implead itself as a party to the proceedings to ‘protect and retain’ the classical status conferred upon the

NEW DELHI: Decisions taken in 2005 came back to haunt former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday, when a Special CBI court in Delhi ordered the CBI to examine his role in allocation of Talabira II coal block allocation to Hindalco. Singh at that time held the additional portfolio of coal ministry. Special Judge Bharat

KOLKATA: Stuck in CBI custody for five days, transport minister Madan Mitra kept to the party script on Tuesday, crying “political vendetta” by the Narendra Modi government even as his party colleagues made the same charges in Parliament. Produced at Alipore court under tight security, the minister said: “They’ve (CBI) held me for five days