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A 72-year-old woman, who once worked for the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), was found murdered in her East Delhi home Sunday, police said. The house, in Preet Vihar, had also been robbed. “Suman Bala Bhatnagar’s body was found by her tenants, who called police. A case of murder and robbery has been registered and […]

The CIC Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu held that during the pendency of RTI application relevant record should not be destroyed by public authority even if its weeding out policy permits. The CIC cautioned that such a destruction of record would be serious breach of Right to Information Act and directed to explain why penalty could

The Delhi high court on Thursday upheld a 2011 circular issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India that increased the period of limitation for invoking arbitration from six months to three years. According to the petitioner, the circulars issued by SEBI were detrimental to the interest of the investors and have been issued

Petitioner in the Black money case Senior Advocate Ram Jethmalani had suffered another setback after his Advocate-on Record Karanjanwala & Company decided to withdraw their Vakalath because of Mr.Jethmalani’s statement against Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, reports Times of India. It was on Mr.Jethmalani’s plea the Supreme Court had set-up a special

In a matrimonial Dispute pending before the Supreme Court the Petitioner wife had circulated a letter purportedly written by Justice V.R.Krishnaiyer to the then Chief Justice of India R.M.Lodha in the residence of Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice Ramana, who were hearing the Case. The Bench deprecated the conduct of the Petitioner-wife and recused from

Putting up a brave front, AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa on Sunday assured party workers that she will come out of the present case as she had successfully faced many challenges, saying her “public life amounted to swimming in a sea of inferno.” In her first statement after walking out of the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison at

NEW DELHI: The CBI’s failure to trace a 26-year-old woman, who disappeared from a police station two years ago, has earned the ire of the Delhi High Court. The court castigated the premier investigating agency for dragging its feet as some police officials are “strong suspects” in the case. “The woman went missing after she

The Centre told the Supreme Court on Friday in strong words that an income tax report has disclosed “astonishing state of affairs” between former CBI director A P Singh and meat exporter Moin Qureshi and that Singh’s conduct was “wholly unbecoming of the office he held”. The report has, however, given a clean chit to

The Delhi government is all set to ensure that Chinese crackers, which flooded the market during Diwali last year, will not be sold in the city this time. It has also banned the use of fire crackers between 10 pm and 6 am. Those who continue bursting crackers till late might land in soup. “Strict

The special public prosecutor in the 2G case has told the Supreme Court that it was “definitely improper” for CBI director Ranjit Sinha to frequently meet those accused in the coal and 2G scam cases and these meetings could not be a matter of Sinha’s right to privacy. The prosecutor also stressed that the alleged