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New Delhi:  The Supreme Court on Monday refused to intervene on a controversy arising out of a statement by the Shankaracharya of Dwarkapeeth regarding worshiping Sai Baba leading to derogatory statements made against the saint and removal of his idol from some temples. A bench headed by Justice T S Thakur observed that such issues cannot […]

NEW DELHI: Do you remember the last time you used a horse-cart instead of a car? Probably not. Yet, the 1861 stage carriage act, which regulates horse-drawn carriages, continues to be on the statute book, long after it ceased to be useful. Or did you know a law gives the state the power to induct

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has dismissed KP Singh-led DLF Home Developers Ltd’s plea questioning whether the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had the jurisdiction to probe allegations of anti-competitive practices against it regarding its residential projects in Gurgaon. The CCI will decide the complaint case against DLF on merit, the court said. The

NEW DELHI:  Jayalalithaa, the former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, will spend this working week in jail in Bangalore. The Supreme Court has decided to hear her request for bail on Friday. The 66-year-old was arrested in September being given a four-year sentence for corruption while in office during her first term as Chief Minister from

Police on Sunday ruled out that the firing by armed men at two policemen in Connaught Place (CP) was part of any terror plot. Police arrested a resident of Moradabad, a day after he along with two associates opened fire at the policemen, triggering fears of a terror attack in the capital ahead of Diwali.

The Income Tax Department has yet again lost a legal battle against Vodafone India Tele Services after the Bombay high court ruled in favour of Vodafone in the transfer pricing case relating to undervaluation of share capital issued by Vodafone India Services Private Limited (Vodafone India) to its Mauritius parent. Vodafone had received a notice

A Madras High Court Bench comprising of Justice S. Manikumar and Justice V.S. Ravi considered the concern shown by several parents regarding the rights of the parents to decide the future course of action, as regards education and marriage of their children, but restrained from issuing any orders in this respect, in view of the

A 3-year-old boy who was mauled by jaguars after falling into their exhibit at a zoo in Arkansas on Friday is in critical condition, a hospital spokesman said. The child was seized at the neck by one of two jaguars and at the foot by the second cat after falling 15 feet (4.5 meters) into

After the Delhi High Court was informed that the planned three-lane flyover — parallel to the existing one at Rao Tula Ram (RTR) Marg — was part of a “comprehensive project plan” for South Delhi, it asked the Public Works Department (PWD) to show a presentation of the proposed traffic and development plan on Monday.

The Delhi high court on Friday cut short INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala’s campaign for the Haryana election and ordered him back to the high-security Tihar jail, where he is serving a 10-year term in a teacher recruitment scandal. The court asked the former Haryana chief minister to surrender by Saturday and was critical of