In a morale booster for working journalists and newspaper employees, the Supreme Court Friday upheld the validity of the Majithia wage boards, observing their recommendations for wage hike are based on genuine considerations. It also junked newspaper organisations’ challenge to the constitutional validity of the working journalists and newspaper employees act. Justice G.R. Majithia was […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will Feb 11 meet farmers in Haryana’s Ganaur town of Sonipat district, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said here Friday. “Rahul Gandhi would visit Ganaur in district Sonipat Feb 11 where he would hold dialogue with different farmer organisations of the country so as to incorporate issues related to their […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday pledged support to the tribal people of Jharkhand, saying he would stand with them and fight their battles with them. Gandhi pledged his support to empowering the tribal people of Jharkhand, especially women. Holding an open discussion with tribal women who had come to the capital from all over […]
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Friday his government was determined to push through the Jan Lokpal bill in the Delhi assembly, saying it did not need a central government nod. In a communication made public, Kejriwal urged Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung not to bow down to pressures from the central government aimed at spiking what […]
The Bombay High Court Friday directed the Enforcement Directorate to provide documents to sacked IPL chief Lalit Modi based on which the central agency had issued him show cause notices in July 2011 and March 2013 for alleged foreign exchange violations in the Indian Premier League held in South Africa in 2009. The bench, comprising […]
The Supreme Court Friday rejected a batch of petitions seeking to restrain the government from moving a bill to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh to carve out Telangana on the ground that it was violative of the principles of federalism and the basic structure of the constitution. A bench of Justice H.L.Dattu and Justice S.A. Bobde, while […]
A court in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur framed charges against spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, over five months after he was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl, a lawyer said. Pradeep Choudhary, one of the lawyers representing Asaram, said the court of district and sessions judge, Jodhpur (rural) has dropped section 26 of Juvenile Justice Act, […]
Dismissing allegations of involvement of her Trinamool Congress in “horse-trading of MLAs (legislators)”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said she would welcome members of opposition who voted for her party in the Rajya Sabha polls. “This doesn’t happen in Bengal…Trinamool is the only party that is very transparent…we are the poorest of the […]
The Supreme Court Friday granted bail to alleged Maoist conduit Soni Sori and her nephew Lingaram Kodopi but asked them to stay in Delhi and report to a police station once a week. Both are also barred from entering Chhattisgarh. However, the court said that both Sori and Kodopi would be escorted to Chhattisgarh by […]
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court Friday turned down a plea by Shabir Ahmad Khan — accused by a woman doctor of trying to sexually assault her — to move for bail in Jammu instead of Srinagar. Khan, who resigned Friday from the post of minister of state for health, has been accused by a […]