
Hyderabad: The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics on Friday received the blood samples of ND Tiwari, the youth who claims to be his biological son and also the youth's mother for the DNA test over the paternity suit involving the veteran Congress leader. The blood samples of the youth Rohit Sekhar and his mother Ujjwala Sharma were collected in the Delhi High Court on May 26 while Tiwari gave...

12:53 AM, Jun 02, 2012

Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) claims that a deal of Rs 6 crore was struck between former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy and suspended CBI judge T Pattabhirama Rao for the former's bail. Rs 2.8 crore have been recovered from the locker of the suspended CBI judge's son, sources said on Friday. The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday night suspended the First Additional Special Judge for CBI...

07:07 PM, Jun 01, 2012

New Delhi: A special court in Hyderabad will on Friday decide on the bail plea filed by YSR Congress leader Jagan Mohan Reddy. The YSR Congress Chief has been in prison since May 26 in an alleged disproportionate assets case. The court has on Thursday reserved its orders till Friday on the bail plea. The Court of Principal Special Judge for CBI cases had posted the matter to Friday after...

06:41 AM, Jun 01, 2012

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court has pulled up the state government and the Temple Devasom board over the use of elephants during temple festivals. The court issued a notice and sought an explanation for violating norms. CNN-IBN had earlier reported on numerous instances of violation and cases of elephants going on a rampage. A toddler was killed and 25 others injured in a stampede when a tusker ran amok in...

09:00 AM, May 31, 2012

Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh High Court is expected to hear YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's bail petition on Thursday in the disproportionate assets case. The Kadapa MP is in judicial custody for 14-days. Jagan says this is a move by the CBI and the Congress to ensure he is not be able to campaign for the crucial bypolls in Andhra Pradesh. Jagan's mother YS Vijaya Lakshmi hit the campaign...

08:09 AM, May 31, 2012

Ahmedabad: The UPA government is likely to fall in 2013 and the country will have to face the mid term polls, BJP national vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi claimed on Wednesday. "There is every possibility that allies of Congress that are present in UPA today will desert the government due to large-scale corruption, price rise and policy and decision paralysis that has plagued this government," he said. "This government is likely...

03:30 AM, May 31, 2012

Kochi: After being in jail for almost four months, the two Italian marines charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen were on Wednesday granted bail by the Kerala High Court, but with stringent conditions. The Kerala government has to ensure they do not leave the country. The marines, Latore Massimiliano and Salvatore Girone, have been asked to pay Rs 1 crore each as a bail bond and two Indians...

09:08 PM, May 30, 2012

Allahabad: In yet another indictment of land acquisition policy of previous Mayawati government, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday quashed acquisition of 68 hectares of village land on pretext of "planned industrial development" in Greater Noida and held that invoking of urgency clause for the purpose was "tainted with malafides". A Division Bench comprising justices Sunil Ambwani and Het Singh Yadav passed the order on a writ petition filed by...

08:12 PM, May 30, 2012

Thiruvananthapuram: Three months after being jailed for allegedly killing two Indian fishermen, the Kerala High Court granted bail to two Italian marines on Wednesday. The court asked the marines to deposit Rs 1 crore as personal bond. But the Italians cannot leave Kochi as their passports are with the police. The court also asked two Indians to stand as surety for the Italian marines. The Italian marines' lawyer Rajender Nair...

02:32 PM, May 30, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused the striking Air India pilots to train on Boeing 777 while hearing a plea filed by the airline management. The High Court said that it would consider the pilots request to train on the aircraft only after they end their 23-day long strike. The High Court also said that pilots have no right to disobey and go for the training as...

01:12 PM, May 30, 2012

New Delhi: It's a blow which the government was quick to recover from. Less than 24 hours after Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the sub-quota for minorities, the government is adamant to pursue it. The government has proposed creation of a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for notified minority groups out of the 27 per cent reservation meant for OBCs - a move which the Opposition says smacks of votebank...

09:44 PM, May 29, 2012

Kochi: Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition by the Italian Government seeking quashing of the FIR against two of its marines, who allegedly shot dead two Indian fishermen off the state coast in February and slapped a cost of Rs one lakh on it. Dismissing the petition, Justice PS Gopinathan said Kerala Police has the jurisdiction to register the case since the incident occurred in the territorial waters...

05:24 PM, May 29, 2012

Dehradun: Veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari's blood samples were finally collected on Tuesday after a team of doctors reached his Dehradun residence on Supreme Court orders. The former Andhra governor had been refusing to give the samples in a paternity lawsuit. Petitioner Rohit Shekhar and his mother were present at Tiwari's residence when the sample was taken by two doctors who are being supervised by the Delhi High Court. Security...

11:46 AM, May 29, 2012

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court will on Wednesday hear a public suit against the recent hike in petrol prices. Acting on the suit filed on Monday by Rajendra Phanse, the court issued notice to the central government, the petroleum and natural gas and finance ministries and three oil marketing companies. Phanse's petition claimed that the recent hike in petrol prices is "illegal" as it did not have parliament's approval and...

10:30 PM, May 28, 2012

New Delhi: Brothers Vikas and Vishal Yadav, convicted for the murder of Nitish Katara in 2008, and who managed to stay out of the Tihar jail for over 151 days since then now face flak from an independent inquiry panel. Commissioned on Delhi High Court's orders, the panel of doctors led by a brigadier stated that the brothers' medical records do not justify lengthy hospital stays. The report accessed by...

09:20 PM, May 28, 2012