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Governor Ram Naik Friday cleared UP Control of Goonda (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015 bringing offences like cow slaughter, human trafficking, animal trafficking, money laundering, molestation, bonded labour, child labour and even manufacturing and trading of illegal arms under the provisions of the Goonda Act. The ordinance, which was recently cleared by the state Cabinet, was sent […]

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday refused to stay the screening of ‘MSG — Messenger of God’, the controversial film starring Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, paving the way for its scheduled release on February 13. The court, however, issued notices to the Censor Board, states of Haryana

A special court on Thursday granted bail to suspended additional director general of police (ADGP) PP Pandey in ​the ​2004 ​fake encounter case of ​Ishrat Jahan and three others. This is the first instance in which an accused has been granted ​regular bail. ​​Pandey is the seniormost IPS officer to be arrested in a fake

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday declined to stay the release of controversial film ‘Messenger of God (MSG)’, featuring Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. As the petition filed in public interest by a Mohali-based trust against the film’s release came up for hearing, a division bench of the High

In a setback to the the Centre, the Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed its petitions to get all the cases, pending before various high courts against the coal ordinance, transferred to the apex court. The order virtually means that there would be no monitoring by the apex court on the auction process, which requires to be

A local court on Monday dismissed the bail application of Rattan Lubana, one of the gang of three unemployed youths who were arrested for blackmail and extorting money from students of some high-end schools in the city last month. Civil Judge Senior Division K K Jain, while dismissing Lubana’s application, held that his crime was

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine whether municipal bodies can kill stray dogs merely on a complaint that they have become a “nuisance” to the public. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant said that it will look into the contradiction in animal welfare laws on what constitutes

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal today tweeted declaring that five of his party members would submit an application to the Supreme Court for a special SIT probe into funding of BJP, Congress as well as their own. Kejriwal’s decision comes a day after a breakway volunteer group of AAP alleged that the party indulged

KOCHI: CPM state secretariat member MV Jayarajan, who was sentenced to four-week imprisonment for contempt of court for calling high court judges idiots (‘shumbanmaar’), surrendered before the high court to serve his sentence. The timing of his surrender might enable him to attend CPM’s state conference beginning on February 21st. At around 11.30am on Monday,

The Supreme Court today sought responses from the Centre and the CBSE on a plea to make ‘Moral Science’ subject compulsory in class I to XII in schools across the country. A bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice A K Siki issued notices to Human Resources Development Ministry and the Central Board