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The Karnataka High Court will hear on Tuesday AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa’s plea seeking immediate bail and suspension of her four-year sentence in an 18-year- old disproportionate assets case. Bracing for the anticipated entry of AIADMK supporters into the city, the police have tightened security in and around the High Court and Parappana Agrahara Central Prison, […]

A Delhi court is likely to hear the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) reply to businessman Gautam Khaitan’s bail application on Tuesday. Khaitan was arrested a fortnight ago in connection with the ` 3,600crore Agusta-Westland chopper deal scam. He filed for bail last Wednesday. NEW DELHI: A Delhi court is likely to hear the Enforcement Directorate’s reply

India will not accept any kind of intrusion by China along the border and will defend its territory, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said today. “These incidents are happening. But we are very, very clear this time that we will not accept any kind of their (Chinese) intrusion into our territory and we

It is all about taking custodial justice seriously. That is precisely what the September Supreme Court order in Bhim Singh vs Union of India has attempted, though belatedly compared to Section 436A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which was introduced way back in 2005. Section 436A was meant to give relief to the under

Communal tension continued to escalate in Vadodara Sunday as two more cases of clashes were reported from the city. The pattern of the clashes suggested that the violence was spreading beyond the walled city areas. On Saturday, one stabbing incident was reported from the city even as the police suspended mobile data services till September

Opponents of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa believe that they stand vindicated after a Bangalore court in an 18-year-old case sentenced the her to four years in prison and imposed a fine of Rs 100 crore for illegally accumulating assets worth Rs 66.05 crore. The verdict also has a crushing impact on her political

LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Thursday issued notice to Samajwadi Party’s Azam Khan to explain why he shouldn’t be disqualified as a UP cabinet minister for simultaneously availing of facilities as the chancellor of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University in Rampur. The bench gave him six weeks to file his response,

NEW DELHI: While the Enforcement Directorate made its first arrest — businessman and lawyer Gautam Khaitan — in the Rs 3600 crore AgustaWestland chopper scam, CBI is still dragging its feet in the case. Even after 20 months of investigation, CBI is nowhere close to filing the chargesheet despite finishing the probe at India’s end

WASHINGTON: A day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landmark visit to the US, a human rights group has obtained summons against him for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots as state chief minister. New York based American Justice Centre (AJC) obtained the summons from the US Federal Court for the Southern District of

The Centre has left it to the Supreme Court (SC) to decide on whether rummy, poker and other card games, played online or in clubs for stakes, amount to gambling. These games would come under the ambit of gambling and thus illegal only if it is held that they involve sheer luck and no skill.