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NEW DELHI: Employees at Ordnance Factories (OF) – who have been contesting their omission from the benefits of the sixth pay commission for over seven years have finally more than one reason to rejoice. Reining in the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’ at public offices, the Delhi High Court has directed the Centre […]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday pulled up Haryana authorities after they failed to produce a self-styled godman, against whom a non-bailable warrant was issued last week in a contempt case, citing resistance by his followers. Though Sant Rampal did not appear, his aide Ram Kumar Dhaka was arrested and produced in the court

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea seeking to rename India as Bharat and asked the petitioner to approach an appropriate authority with its plea. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu asked the petitioner to first make an appropriate representation before an authority in support of

CHENNAI: With another round of power tariff hike around the corner, a PIL (public interest litigation) filed in the Madras high court has questioned the legality of the Tamil Nadu government’s policy move on technical grounds. The PIL, filed by senior advocate R Gandhi, wants the court to restrain the authorities from announcing and giving

CHENNAI: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activists were arrested in various parts of Tamil Nadu on Sunday as they attempted to take out route marches in their khakhi-white uniforms to mark the RSS foundation day and kick start celebrations to commemorate the 1000th coronation year of 11th century Tamil King Rajendra Chola. Despite the explicit orders

NEW DELHI: It was an eye-opener for Delhi’s trial court judges as they heard a rape survivor, an acid attack victim, a transgender and an activist working with deaf sexual assault victims recount their experiences of deposing before the court. All of them complained of a hostile court atmosphere which made it difficult for them

Justice Vibhu Bakhru of the Delhi High Court has issued a notice to CBI on a plea filed by Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad’s nephew regarding morphing of a photo of Azad and Najma Heptulla in a book published on the country’s first education minister. Azad’s nephew has urged that the morphing was done at the

The Delhi High Court on Friday sought the CBI’s reply on a journalist’s plea seeking quashing of a trial court order framing charges against him for allegedly hatching a criminal conspiracy with government officials to obtain ‘secret papers’. Justice Indermeet Kaur issued the notice to CBI and asked them to file a reply by February

NEW DELHI: In a brazen violation of the child protection act, the Institution for the Blind in Amar Colony, Delhi, has seemingly hushed up the alleged sexual assault of two of its Class 3 students by a teacher last year. This is despite a signed confession by the alleged perpetrator and reports of two school

The Supreme Court today upheld the appeal filed by the Central Government against a judgment delivered by the Madras High Court, by which High Court had disallowed caste based census. The judgment authored by Justice Dipak Misra, is from a three judge Bench consisting of Justices Dipak Misra, UULalit and RFNariman. The judgment quotes the