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NEW DELHI: In an important development that will bring down culpability of directors of a private company in case one of its employees is caught bribing a public servant, the Law Commission has told the government to amend certain provisions of the proposed Prevention of Corruption Act (Amendment) Bill and bring it in line with […]

MUMBAI: It was the last day in court as judge of the Bombay high court for Justice P D Kode on Thursday as he turned 62, the official age of retirement as HC judge. The judge better known for his historic verdict in the March 12, 1993 serial bomb blasts case of Mumbai (then Bombay)

NEW DELHI: In a relief to social activist Teesta Setalvad, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed her arrest till February 19. The apex court also asked the Gujarat government lawyer to produce some relevant documents pertaining to this case on February 19. The court allowed Setalvad to file additional documents in support of her defence

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday extended till February 17 its interim relief to troubled Avadhnama editor Shirin Dalvi from coercive steps, including arrest, by the state. A division bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice Anuja Prabhudessai was to hear a plea by Dalvi to club and quash multiple first information reports filed

Taking a serious view of a probe in a rape case being transferred from Agra to Firozabad without any concrete reason, and on the request of the accused’s brother, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday asked the Uttar Pradesh government about the basis on which the case was transferred. The court, which will hear the

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on was questioned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) for the second time in last four weeks in connection with the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. Tharoor was quizzed at the SIT office in Vasant Vihar in south Delhi on various aspects leading to Sunanda’s death. This is the

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government on Tuesday ruled out any weapons training incidents inside the controversial godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda. Haryana government informed HC that an inquiry conducted by a committee had not found any arms training on the dera premises by army personnel or anyone else. The report was also

MUMBAI: If anyone thought that N Srinivasan would be down and out after the Supreme Court verdict on January 22 which barred him from contesting the BCCI elections till he ceased to be the owner of his IPL team the Chennai Super Kings, he or she was wrong. Reliable sources have told TOI that the

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court refused to entertain petition by former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran, who wanted the Aircel-Maxis case against him to be tried by a normal court and not by 2G scam special court. Maran pleaded that the SC had barred only 2G scam accused from going to the Delhi high court. Maran said

A military judge is trying to decide whether the attempt to prosecute five prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept 11 attacks can resume after stalling for nearly a year because of the revelation of an apparent FBI investigation into members of one of the defense teams. The five defendants are expected back in court