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Even as it waits for feedback from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on its list of suggested amendments to the new Land Acquisition Act, the Rural Development Ministry has started working on a plan B that would make the Act less stringent. It would also ease the process of acquiring land by expanding the category […]

The Supreme Court is set to examine the veracity of the allegations that the people who made house calls to CBI director Ranjit Sinha included those being investigated by the agency for the 2G scam and other corruption cases. Sinha found himself at the centre of a controversy with Prashant Bhushan, representing the petitioner NGO

NEW DELHI: You are most likely to be waylaid, robbed or become a victim of theft if you are driving on a national highway through UP or Bihar. However, if you are crossing Goa, terror-infested Jammu & Kashmir or the insurgency-affected northeast, you are most likely to reach your destination safe and sound. Government data

SANTINIKETAN: A Bolpur court on Sunday turned down the bail plea of three students of Visva-Bharati’s Kala Bhavana and remanded them to three days in police custody for “sexually tormenting” a girl, also a first-year fine arts student from Sikkim. The fourth accused is still on the run.   The three accused — Anirudhha Karmakar,

A man, who sought separation from his wife alleging that she was aggressive and autocratic with an insatiable appetite for sex, was granted divorce by a family court here. “Due to respondent’s (wife’s) non-appearance before the court, the petitioner’s (husband’s) evidence remains unchallenged on record. Hence this court has no option but to accept his

NEW DELHI: Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit was on Saturday slapped with a fine of Rs 3 lakh by a court here for failing to appear before it in a defamation case filed by her against BJP leader Vijender Gupta. It the second time she has been fined in the case. The court had