A judge of the Kerala High Court Wednesday withdrew himself from hearing an appeal petition in the SNC Lavalin corruption case in which CPI-M secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and six others were discharged by a CBI court last year. Journalist T.P. Nandakumar filed the appeal petition in the high court against the exoneration of Vijayan by […]
aapBarkha Singh, chief of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), Wednesday accused the AAP government of “harassing” her after Hindi novelist Maitreyi Pushpa was named the panel’s new chief. Barkha Singh said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government took the step after she summoned Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti to explain his controversial campaign against […]
The civil services officers’ body in Goa Wednesday requested Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar to order the release of a bureaucrat arrested over a building collapse in which 31 people were killed earlier this month. The Association of Goa Civil Service Officers’ has accused the government of harassing and needlessly arresting Prashant Shirodkar, the chief officer […]
The AAP, BJP and the Akali Dal Wednesday demanded an SIT probe into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi admitted some party members’ involvement in the violence. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung Wednesday morning to submit his request for a Special Investigation Team (SIT) […]
A conference attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi was disrupted here Wednesday by a man who said none of the government schemes for the minorities were reaching the beneficiaries. As soon as the prime minister concluded his speech at the launch of the National Waqf Development Corporation Limited (NAWADCO) in […]
The BJP has given up its Rajya Sabha seat in Maharashtra to accommodate Ramdas Athawale, the chief of its junior ally, the Republican Party of India-A, a party official said here Monday. Athawale will file his nomination Tuesday, the last date for filing the nominations, on a ticket given from the BJP’s quota, said RPI […]
More travel options and lower fares await air passengers after the government Monday allowed Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft, to fly into the country. The civil aviation ministry lifted the ban imposed in 2008 on the ground that operation of A380s could work against the interest of Indian carriers. Industry insiders said not […]
Taking suo motu congnizance of media reports that the hands of two migrant labourers were chopped off in Odisha, the Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the state government and also to Andhra Pradesh, where the contractor who hired them was based. The notice is returnable in four weeks. The bench of Chief Justice P. […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Monday said his party decided to support the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi “to give them a chance to prove themselves” and dismissed the notion that it was done in order to divide the anti-Congress vote. Asked by Times Now news channel if after witnessing the “chaos” in […]
In a significant judgment, the Supreme Court has held that if compensation for land acquired under the 1894 act has not been paid to the land owner or deposited with a competent court and retained in the treasury, then the acquisition would be deemed to have lapsed and would be covered under the 2013 law […]