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NEW DELHI: Along with his wife and three-year-old daughter, Sankalp Anand drove from Delhi to Mathura in Uttar Pradesh and the family then jumped in front of a train. Santosh, 38, and his wife were killed. Their child Riddhima survived and is with her grandparents in Delhi after being treated for serious injuries. The police […]

The NDA government on Friday urged the Supreme Court to modify its order in the black money case on absolute disclosure of information pertaining to people who stashed tainted money abroad. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi mentioned the fresh application before a bench led by Chief Justice H L Dattu, which put it for hearing on

NEW DELHI: A day after Sankalp Anand, son of Bollywood lyricist Santosh Anand, committed suicide, the family members have demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the incident. Sankalp and his wife jumped in front of a speeding train in Mathura on Wednesday. According to family members, Sankalp was being pressured by his

Supreme Court advocate, Lok Sabha member and BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi, speaking at a legal conference of the US India Business Council (USIBC) in Delhi yesterday, said that she would ‘extend protection’ for Indian lawyers against the entry of foreign law firms to India. She began her talk by saying that the USIBC was in

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

AIADMK party workers must be waiting with bated breath on Friday as the Supreme court is slated to take up the bail plea of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, who is lodged in Bangalore jail in connection with disproportionate assets case. Also Read: Jayalalithaa IT returns case adjourned to November 6 It is

A 5-year-old student was killed while 25 others, all aged between 5 and 10 years, were injured after a wall of an under-construction building collapsed in Noida Sector 49 on Thursday. According to police, the incident took place at 11.30 AM on Thursday morning at RCJ Public School when around 40 school children were attending

Raising a cry for a silent Diwali in the national capital, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday urged Lt-Governor Najeeb Jung to ensure the execution of a Supreme Court order which bans the bursting of noise-generating firecrackers in residential areas. Vardhan, the Lok Sabha MP from the Chandni Chowk constituency of Delhi, said in

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to restrain coal companies, which were directed to wind up mining operations in six months after their coal block allocations were cancelled by it, from extracting coal during this period and selling it in the market. A bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu said, the apex court

NEW DELHI: A special court on Wednesday refused to accept CBI’s closure report in the case against a West Bengal-based company and its directors in a matter related to the coal block allocation scam. It further directed the agency to look into the role of coal ministry officers and members of 36th screening committee in