New Delhi: The Director General (Prisons) Punjab, Shashi Kant, on Friday said that he would take strict action against all those police personnel who "stooped" to the level of touching the feet of Bibi Jagir Kaur, the former Punjab Cabinet Minister who on Friday, was charged with the murder of her daughter and sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment in Patiala jail. In an interview with Network 18 Editor-in-Chief...
10:01 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: In a major relief for Yahoo India, the Delhi High Court on Friday stayed the personal presence summons issued to its chief by the Patiala House Court. The Patiala House Court had issued summons to all the 21 websites involved in the objectionable content case to appear before court on March 13. Facebook and Google have already got the summons stayed. "The summons issued against Yahoo India is...
04:41 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: Lawyers at Patiala House court complex on Tuesday filed a complaint in New Delhi against an Additional DCP for "inhuman and derogatory" behaviour with a constable in the court premises after the cop was allegedly made to crawl on ground by his senior for talking on mobile while on duty. In their complaint filed before District Judge H S Sharma, the lawyers said that Additional Deputy Commissioner Seju...
03:51 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Chandigarh: It is a famous address in a famous city and among the must visit spots for tourists. But exactly why Shimla's 'Scandal Point' has been named so is still a tantalizing mystery. The only thing agreed upon is that the place, situated in the queen of hills where the Ridge and the Mall (road) converge, got its name in the 19th century. The story goes that the then Maharaja...
01:08 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: Patiala House court on Monday will pronounce order on a plea for lodging a case against Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh for his alleged role in kidnapping of a witness in 2008 cash-for-vote case. The plea was made by Hashmat Ali, who accused that Singh had got him kidnapped on September 25, 2008, the day he was to appear before a parliamentary panel inquiring into the scam involving...
03:18 AM, Dec 12, 2011
New Delhi: All bail applications, including those of DMK leader Kanimozhi and seven others, in the 2G spectrum allocation scam have been dismissed on Thursday by the special CBI court. The court also announced that the trial will begin on November 11. Judge OP Saini dismissed the bail pleas of all accused in the scam on three accounts. He said the three accounts on which the order is based are...
11:17 AM, Nov 03, 2011
New Delhi: The Patiala Court is set to hear the trial of Swiss Timing on Thursday, the firm which was awarded the timing, scoring and results systems contract for the Commonwealth Games last year. The court had earlier reserved its order on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea to separate the trial of Swiss Timing Ltd. The defence counsel claimed there was no legal provision under which it had...
09:17 AM, Nov 03, 2011
New Delhi: Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, who claimed the responsibility for the attack on senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan, will court arrest at Patiala House at 11:30 am. Sources said that Bagga, the president of 'Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena' who had said on Wednesday that organisation was behind the attack, will court arrest. Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan was beaten up by three people inside his chamber in the Supreme Court...
09:41 AM, Oct 13, 2011
New Delhi: Former telecom minister A Raja on Wednesday moved an application in the Patiala House Court seeking permission to appear in the Supreme Court on Monday. Raja, who is currently in the Tihar Jail in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam, pleaded that he be allowed to argue in person before an apex court bench. Raja wants to argue on the question of the Supreme Court-monitored probe into...
12:23 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Chandigarh: A MiG-21 'Bison' fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Tuesday crashed near Shambu in Punjab's Patiala district during a routine sortie even as the pilot bailed out safely, the fourth mishap this year involving such an aircraft type. The plane had taken off from Ambala and crashed at 1027 hours, 30 kms from Chandigarh, as it was returning to Air Force Station. A Court of Inquiry (CoI)...
07:41 PM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: It was in a 12 x 15 feet cell in Tihar jail that former Telecom Minister A Raja started his 48th birthday on Tuesday, far removed from the day-long celebrations that marks such occasions in the past. In prison for 83 days, Raja, arrested in connection with the 2G scam, began the day with some breathing exercises at 5 am in his Jail No.1. After the usual head...
08:57 PM, May 10, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has opposed Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Kanimozhi's bail plea, claiming that she is the controlling mind behind Kalaignar TV. The CBI also pleaded in the court to send Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV CEO Sharad Kumar to judicial custody. After a long argument by Special Public Prosecutor UU Lalit, who appeared for the CBI, Judge OP Saini reserved the hearing on bail...
10:36 AM, May 07, 2011
It makes you dance, it makes you sing, and it makes a great business idea in Bollywood. Punjabi music has taken the Hindi film industry by storm and is a sure-shot way to recover costs, say industry experts. Punjabi numbers like Sadi galli, Rola pe gaya, Laung da lashkara and Ainvayi Ainvayi are sitting pretty on Bollywood music charts and are also a rage at weddings and discotheques. "The craze...
11:35 AM, Mar 09, 2011
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