New Delhi: Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala was on Tuesday granted interim bail for six weeks by the Delhi High Court for undergoing pacemaker implant surgery at a hospital. "In view of the facts and circumstances of the case and considering the medical report of the appellant/applicant, the applicant's sentence shall be suspended for a period of six weeks," Justice Siddharth Mridul said while granting the interim bail.
78-year-old Chautala, chief of Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), along with 54 others, is serving jail term in the 2000 teachers' recruitment scam. The court asked Chautala to furnish a personal bond of Rs five lakh along with two sureties of like amount before the trial court as a pre-condition for his release on bail.
It also asked the former Haryana Chief Minister to surrender his passport with the trial court, besides asking him not to leave the National Capital Region without prior permission of the court. It also asked Chautala to get himself admitted at Medanta Medicity within 24 hours of his release on bail for undergoing the surgery.
The high court, however, gave liberty to CBI to seek cancellation of his bail if any condition imposed is violated by Chautala. "It goes without saying that CBI will have the liberty to apply for cancellation of bail if any condition is being violated by the appellant/applicant," Justice Mridul said. The court, however, disallowed the submission of CBI that Chautala be restrained from addressing any press
04:59 PM, May 21, 2013
Gujarat: The Supreme Court on Monday severely criticised the Gujarat government of Chief Minister Narendra Modi over its Vidya Sahayak scheme. The court came down heavily on the Modi government on the recruitment process of vidya sahayaks in government primary schools. In a stinging criticism a bench of justices BS Chauhan and Dipak Misra asked the Gujarat government to explain why full time teachers were not being recruited even after...
02:11 PM, May 21, 2013
With the 2012-13 English Premier League (EPL) title having been decided, IBNLive runs the rule over the most valuable players. Enjoy! David de Gea: The Manchester United goalkeeper was slammed by critics initially for committing errors but the young Spaniard proved everyone wrong in the second half of the season, giving spectacular performances one after the other and kept nine consecutive clean sheets to asserts himself as United's No. 1...
08:04 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has pulled up the Gujarat government once again, this time over the appointment of part-time teachers instead of full-time ones in primary schools. The apex court was critical of the Modi government's policy of appointing Vidya Sahayaks in place of teachers in primary schools. It has questioned the government on ignoring the Right To Education Act. The apex court has asked the state government to...
02:54 PM, May 20, 2013
Ahmedabad: After a U-turn by the Gujarat government on the death penalty for former minister Maya Kodnani and nine others, convicted in 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case, the SIT has decided to seek Supreme Court's guidance on the issue. "Very soon, we are going to file an application before the special bench of the Supreme Court apprising it about the recent Gujarat Government's decision to withdraw the sanction for filing...
06:42 PM, May 18, 2013
Alipore: A lady teacher who was arrested for allegedly banging a class III student's head against a wall as punishment leading to his death was on Saturday remanded to 14 days judicial custody. Alipore ACJM, SM Shahnawaz, remanded Champa Mondal of the Nirdheshkhali Shishu Shiksha Kendra in South 24 Parganas district to judicial custody and she would be produced before the court again on June 1. Mondal allegedly banged the...
06:33 PM, May 18, 2013
Here are 15 keys to happiness from Bhutan, a country where Gross National Happiness is considered more important than Gross Domestic Product. 1) If you search for happiness, you will not find it. If happiness searches for you, it will always find you. 2) A flea springs up from a cozy blanket, a hero springs up from a rocky ledge. 3) A yak herder takes the credit, but it is...
12:14 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Signalling apossible realignment of his party's alliance in Haryana, BJP president Rajnath Singh on Thursday met INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala at a hospital in Delhi, party sources said. They said Rajnath Singh, accompanied by party vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, met Chautala at the Ram Manohar Hospital in Delhi. The leaders of two parties are learnt to have discussed current political developments during the meeting which lasted...
04:46 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi government's 181 helpline for women in distress, which was launched in the wake of the December 16 gangrape, has received over two lakh calls in the last four-and-half months. Officials said most of the calls received by the round-the-clock help line were related to stalking, eve-teasing, obscene calls and facing sexual abuse and domestic harassment. The helpline was launched on December 31, 2012 to help women...
02:35 AM, May 17, 2013
Aboard the USS George HW Bush: The US Navy made aviation history on Tuesday by launching an unmanned jet off an aircraft carrier for the first time, taking an important step toward expanded use of drones by the American military with an eye on possible rivals like China and Iran. The bat-winged X-47B stealth drone roared off the USS George HW Bush near the coast of Virginia and flew a...
02:46 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: The Indian football team's tour of England, where it was scheduled to play three international friendlies against Pakistan and Bangladesh, has been cancelled. English Premier League club Fulham FC, whose Craven Cottage ground was hired to organise the matches, issued a statement informing about the cancellation. "The club would like to inform supporters that the international friendly matches scheduled to be played at Craven Cottage in June between...
09:09 PM, May 14, 2013
Srinagar: A government school teacher in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district has been suspended by authorities after he uploaded a picture of small school children massaging his legs on social networking website Facebook. Teacher Bashir Ahmad ran into trouble with the Anantnag district authorities after there was outrage on Facebook over the manner in which he made the kids massage him. The state education director has expressed horror at the...
02:36 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday flayed Gujarat government for withholding its decision to seek death for Maya Kodnani in the Naroda Patiya case, saying there has been no change in the mindset of Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his feelings about a community. "It proves that Modi has not changed. He was like this in the past and will remain so in the future. There has been no change in...
02:14 PM, May 14, 2013
After making the delightful animation film 'Delhi Safari', director Nikhil Advani is back with a gritty thriller on cross border terrorism. 'D Day' features Irrfan, Arjun Rampal, Huma Quereshi, Shruti Haasan and Rishi Kapoor as a mafia don. Known for making light hearted films like 'Kal Ho Na Ho', 'Chandni Chowk To China', director Nikhil Advani will be experimenting with the thriller genre for the first time in 'D Day'....
09:26 AM, May 14, 2013
Jabalpur: IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla has said that discussions on inducting another team in the cash-rich Twenty20 league would be held soon after the end of the ongoing sixth edition of the tournament. "The issue of tenth team in the IPL would be discussed after the end of the current edition," Shukla said. He said that there would be no change in its current format, which permits only a maximum...
04:27 PM, May 12, 2013
London: Sachin Tendulkar is the only Indian to make it to the Test dream team drawn up by former England captain Alec Stewart from among players against whom he had played in his career. "The 'Little Master' is a no-brainer for his extraordinary run-scoring over such a long period of time and the way he has dealt with the pressure of being India's number one sporting icon," Stewart told BBC...
05:03 PM, May 08, 2013
Jamshedpur: Former India bowler Subroto Banerjee has been named coach of the Jharkhand Ranji team. "We have picked up Banerjee as coach of the state Ranji team considering his international experience," JSCA Secretary Rajesh Verma said on Monday. "As Jharkhand will be playing in the elite group for the first time, we wanted an experienced coach and Banerjee emerged as a suitable candidate," he added. Verma said Banerjee will take...
03:50 PM, May 06, 2013
Hamirpur: A local court on Friday sentenced a school teacher to eight years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 in a rape case committed in March 2012. A class VIII student of the Government School, Kiyarabagh in Hamirpur district had lodged a complaint in Badsar police on June 2, 2012, that a teacher had raped her on March 24 and was repeatedly harassing her. The victim had stopped...
03:57 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: India will begin their campaign in the the last edition of the ICC Champions Trophy with their Group B match against South Africa at Cardiff on June 6. The biennial tournament is being wound up as the ICC is unable to slot it in the crowded cricketing calendar. India play their second group game against the West Indies at the Oval on June 11 before running into neighbours...
12:28 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi University Teachers' Association is demanding that the 4-year bachelors programme be postponed to next year. But the university seems adamant to stick to the July 2013 deadline. It affects half a million students from across the country. Nearly half a million students and 9,000 teachers of DU stand to be affected by the decision to make all bachelor programmes a 4-year affair starting July 2013. But...
10:26 AM, Apr 29, 2013
