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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

NEW DELHI: Crimes against women are on the rise, and so is the pendency of such cases in the subordinate and high courts across the country. In the last three years, number of cases relating to sexual harassment, kidnapping and abduction including rape has gone up from 2.28 lakh to 3.09 lakh. Over 31,000 rape

AHMEDABAD: A special court on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) to supply a copy of its 8,000-page closure report to the witnesses of the Gulbarg Society massacre case. In this report of 2012 the SIT had giving clean chit to the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in connection with the

NEW DELHI: A special court hearing the coal block case involving industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and others here on Tuesday asked CBI to record the statement of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who was then holding the coal ministry portfolio. Special Judge Bharat Parashar asked Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to record the statement of

MADURAI: A man has approached the Madurai bench of the Madras high court with a petition making an incredulous claim that he could produce NetajiShubas Chandra Bose, if the Centre guarantees that it would not treat him as a war criminal or hand him over to the United Kingdom. Interestingly, rather than questioning the claim

Maintaining that no further indulgence could be given to them, the Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected applications by the two Italian marines, demanding further relaxation of their bail conditions. The marines are accused of killing two fishermen off Kerala coast in 2012. While Massimilano Latorre had sought extension of his stay in Italy by another

A sessions court in New Delhi has asked a trial court to retry a road accident case, in which a DTC van driver was acquitted, saying “a vehicle may be rashly or negligently driven even without high speed.” Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala asked the trial court judge to conduct re-trial of the case, in

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday permitted newly-appointed CBI director Anil Sinha to take over the probe into 2G cases. The apex court passed the order on an application by the probe agency seeking clarification on its earlier order removing former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief Ranjit Sinha from the investigation and prosecution