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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that action should be taken on the Mudgal Committee’s probe report on the IPL spot-fixing scam and team Chennai Super Kings should be ‘terminated without further enquiry’ from the IPL tournament. “In the face of so many irregularities, isn’t it easier to disqualify? SC asked, after the […]

NEW DELHI: Parliament and Supreme Court buildings may be facing serious fire hazard as they have not received a fire safety certificate for the last 10 years. The issue was highlighted by the central information commission (CIC) which pulled up the Delhi Fire Service for not releasing information regarding the fire safety of the Parliament

NEW DELHI: SC has awarded death sentence to a 47-year-old man from Maharashtra after finding him guilty of raping a 4-year-old girl and then stoning her to death. The apex court said the case fell in the rarest of rare category as the child had always referred to the man from neighbourhood as an uncle

NEW DELHI: Law minister Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday blamed the present collegium system of appointment of judges for existing vacancies in the high courts. Against a sanctioned strength of 984 judges in 24 high courts (HCs), there are only 636 judges at present, with almost 348 posts or nearly 35% vacant. The Allahabad HC has

Emphasising upon a need to assure people that the State would take care of the girl child, the Supreme Court on Tuesday urged the state governments to give incentives to every family with a girl child so as to battle the menace of female foeticide and help improving the sex ratio in the country. “We

NEW DELHI: In a landmark verdict, Delhi high court on Monday directed playschools that were allotted land at concessional rates in the capital to offer 25% of their seats free of charge to children from the weaker sections. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw said Directorate of Education

NEW DELHI: Former Supreme Court judge CK Prasad is set to be appointed as the head of the Press Council of India. Information and broadcasting ministry sources said Prasad has been selected by a committee headed by Vice President Hamid Ansari yesterday and a communication has been received in this regard. Prasad will succeed justice

It seems N Srinivasan’s return as BCCI president will not be a smooth affair. The Supreme Court has questioned his return to the top position in the Board of Control of Cricket in India, and asked him to address the question of conflict of interest. Quick notes: * Cricket must be played in its true

JAIPUR: The Supreme Court rulings which were considered sacrosanct, have failed to make any impact on the mining in the Aravallis. Despite several orders of the SC and the National Green Tribunal (NGT), banning mining in the Aravallis, it continues unabated, levelling the range and clearing the forests in Tijara. Now, one can easily see

HUBBALLI: Sri Rama Sene national president Pramod Muthalik will file a public interest litigation in the Karnataka High Court, seeking a stay on the Kiss of Love (KOL) protest planned in Bengaluru. Muthalik told reporters here on Sunday: “We have issued a legal notice to the state chief secretary, home minister, Kannada and culture minister