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The 32-year-old cabbie, who allegedly raped an executive on Friday night, would not have been behind the wheel of the Uber taxi had the US-based company run a background check and got police verification done as he had earlier been jailed too in a rape case. Meanwhile, the Delhi government has banned with immediate effect […]

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat High Court on Friday directed social activist Teesta Setalwad, her husband Javed Anand and Zakia Jafri’s son Tanvir along with two other former residents of Gulbarg Society to appear before the investigating officer (IO) every fortnight in an alleged funds embezzlement case. Justice Ashish Desai ordered Setalvad and others to remain present before

Kendriya Vidyalaya students will not have to appear for Sanskrit examination in the current academic session, the government told the Supreme Court on Friday. The court said it as a “good solution” to put an end to the controversy triggered over the decision to immediately replace German with Sanskrit as the third language in Kendriya

A Public Interest Litigation against Shiv Sena joining the Maharashtra government was filed in the Bombay High Court on Friday. The matter will come up for hearing on December 8. The petitioner has asked the court to direct the respondents, including Speaker Haribhau Bagade, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Leader of the Opposition Eknath Shinde

NEW DELHI: Law minister Sadananda Gowda on Friday said there was no proposal to increase the retirement age of Supreme Court judges from 65 to 68 years. On whether the Centre was considering increasing the retirement age of judges of the 24 high courts from 62 to 65 years, the minister said a constitutional amendment

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has been informed by the city government’s food safety department that samples of rice dishes collected by it from two popular eateries here have been found to be unsafe. In an affidavit filed by the department, it said that the presence of artificial colour rendered the dishes “unsafe” for

Justice V R Krishna Iyer has passed on to the other world. He scored a century. He was unwell in body al though his spirit was, as always, indomitable. And yet, I cannot shake off a deep sense of grief. My generation, who learned from him of what the Supreme Court was all about, considered

ALBANY (New York): A chimpanzee is not entitled to the rights of a human and does not have to be freed by its owner, a New York appeals court ruled on Thursday. The three-judge Appellate Division panel was unanimous in denying “legal personhood” to Tommy, which lives alone in a cage. A trial-level court had

NEW DELHI: Concerned at rising pendency of cases older than five years in high courts, Chief Justice of India Justice H L Dattu has written to chief justices of all HCs asking them to ensure that such cases are not pending in any court, including the subordinate judiciary under them. Pendency of over five-year-old cases

A new controversy may be brewing for the NDA government as the Solicitor General of India on Wednesday sought to argue on behalf of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the Supreme Court in the black money case, amid allegation of “conflict of interest” by petitioner Ram Jethmalani. In a prelude to what can blow