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NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Thursday expressed concern over identity of child survivors of sexual offences being disclosed. HC has directed trial courts and hospitals to ensure that guidelines laid down by it are scrupulously followed in all cases relating to children. The court said it is the duty of the hospital where […]

BENGALURU: Karnataka’s private schools, including CBSE and ICSE institutions, are again headed for a legal battle with the state government over the language issue. The government’s decision to make Kannada the compulsory medium of instruction from classes 1 to 5 in all schools has rankled them. On March 30, the state %legislature passed the Right

PANAJI: Goa minister Francisco Mickky Pacheco, who was convicted for slapping a government servant, on Friday resigned from cabinet. Pacheco on Wednesday filed a review petition before the Supreme Court, pleading for “justice” in the 2006 case of assault on an electricity department junior engineer. “I have pleaded with the SC that I should be

Serena Williams abused her racket, scolded herself and even made angry faces at the sun. In the end, as usual, she took out her frustration on the ball. The seven-time Key Biscayne champion overcame her annoyance and shaky play Wednesday for her 700th career victory, beating Sabine Lisicki 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-3 to reach the

Government has moved the Supreme Court seeking review of its March 17 verdict setting aside a 2014 notification of erstwhile UPA regime to include Jats in the central list of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) in nine states to accord quota benefits to them. The NDA government moved the apex court days after a meeting

NEW DELHI: A misconduct of an employee cannot entitle the government to cut pension and other post retirement benefit, the Delhi High Court has held. Only when the misconduct is “grave” can the employer slash benefits. “For a retired government servant a cut in pension can be ordered if the misconduct of which he is

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the trial court’s decision to summon former PM Manmohan Singh, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, former coal secretary PC Parakh and three others. A bench of Justices V Gopala Gowda and C Nagappan also asked the CBI and Union government to file reply in four weeks to all

MUMBAI: In a development that brings hope to children with disabilities, recently deprived a ‘writer’ during examinations, the Bombay high court Chief Justice Mohit Shah suo motu turned a letter in to public interest litigation and issued notice to Central HRD Ministry, the NIOS director in Pune and others on Tuesday. The letter written to

A division bench of Kerala High Court Tuesday ratified the new liquor policy of the Congress-led government, which had envisaged the closure of all liquor bars except those in the five-start category. The division bench also nullified the single bench order which allowed liquor licence for four-star and heritage hotels. However, the court ratified the

VADODARA: An accused in the 2002 Best Bakery carnage died at a hospital in Mumbai on Sunday. Jayanti Gohil, a resident of Vadodara, who was admitted to a hospital died on Sunday. The Panigate police was informed about the death on Sunday. “We got a call on Sunday evening that Gohil was in a critical