New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear Congress leader ND Tiwari's plea against being forced to give his blood sample to determine a paternity lawsuit. Tiwari has challenged a Delhi High court order that instructs the registrar to allow the use of police help to obtaining his blood sample in the paternity suit filed by Rohit Shekhar. The 86-year-old leader has been embroiled in the paternity case for...
06:57 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader ND Tiwari has been directed by the Delhi High Court to give blood sample on May 26 for the DNA test in connection with a paternity case. The veteran Congress leader has been forced to give a sample to settle a paternity suit. The 86-year-old leader has been embroiled in the paternity case for over four years, and the court had earlier ordered that police may...
12:37 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by the Indian pilots guild challenging the single-judge order that had restrained the pilots of Air India from going on strike, terming it as illegal. The High Court said that the plea of the striking pilots "cannot be entertained as they are guilty of contempt". The decision by the single-judge bench was upheld by a division bench of Justice...
05:10 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday washed its hands of the controversy surrounding veteran leader ND Tiwari, who has been ordered by a Delhi court to give blood sample for DNA test in a paternity suit and restrained from leaving India until the test. "This is his personal matter and we will not be able to offer any comment on behalf of the party in this regard. He is a...
10:19 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the central government on a petition alleging that political parties in power misused public funds by giving advertisements on the birth and death anniversaries of their leaders. The division bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice RS Endlaw sought a reply from the director general, Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity, of the central government by July...
07:45 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered its registrar to take police assistance for bringing defiant veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari here for taking his blood sample to decide the paternity suit of a man claiming to be his son. "Joint Registrar (JR) shall be entitled to avail police assistance in case the defendant number one (Tiwari) is not available within the jurisdiction of this court. The JR...
04:52 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has issued a notice to the Centre on a PIL challenging Sachin Tendulkar's Rajya Sabha nomination. The Delhi High Court has asked the Centre to reply by July 5. The petition claims that Sachin's selection was unconstitutional as only people from art, science, literature and social services could be nominated and the sports does not fall under any category. However, the court refused to...
12:59 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday restrained veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari from leaving India until he furnishes his blood sample for a DNA test. Justice Reva Khetrapal, hearing the plea of a man who claims to be the biological son, granted two days time to Tiwari to inform the court whether he wants to give blood sample willingly or not. The high court on April 27 had...
12:30 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Friday dropped MCOCA charges against gangster Abu Salem. The High Court accepted the Delhi Police plea to drop the charges. Delhi Police had said the charges violate Salem's extradition rules. The Portugal court wanted MCOCA removed if Salem's extradition was to stand. "The petition of Delhi Police is allowed. The order dated August 28, 2009 passed by the designated lower court is set aside....
05:19 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Friday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the Air India crisis. After the meeting, Ajit Singh said that the government was not being inflexible and was open to talks. "The government is not being inflexible or adamant," Ajit Singh said. The Aviation Minister also said that the government had no plans of imposing the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against the...
12:43 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday ruled in favour of the Indian Pilots Guild in the Boeing Dreamliner training programme issue. This means that the Air India pilots will get to fly the bulk of the Boeing Dreamliner carriers. However, the HC ruled that there will be no new training programme for pilots unless the recommendations of Dharmadhikari Commission report are made public and implemented. The HC will...
12:17 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has called for the trial court records on former BJP president Bangaru Laxman in the fake arms deal case. The argument of expediting the case on the basis of Laxman's old age and medical condition has been rejected by the court. Laxman will now have to spend two months in jail. The next date of hearing in the case is July 5. Bangaru Laxman...
11:16 AM, May 11, 2012
Around 200 Air India pilots owing allegiance to Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) had reported sick on Tuesday resulting in cancellation of at least 13 international flights. ...
09:38 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has directed Google to remove, within 36 hours, derogatory content posted by a blogger against Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Justice Manmohan Singh, hearing a defamation case filed by followers of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, also issued notice to Google and Jitender Bagga who allegedly posted derogatory contents against motivational guru and his Art of Living. "In case, interim order is...
07:49 PM, May 10, 2012
Soon after the Delhi HC declared that the Air India Pilots' strike is illegal, the management acted and sacked 10 more pilots. ...
11:17 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Soon after the Delhi High Court on Wednesday declared that the Air India Pilots' strike is illegal, the Air India management acted and sacked 16 more pilots. Admonishing Air India pilots union Indian Pilots Guild, the court said that the strike should be halted until hearings in the case are completed and also said no pilots should call in sick. Pilots represented by the union the Indian Pilots...
04:27 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday delivered a major blow to the striking Air India pilots by declaring that their strike was illegal. The High Court said that there should not be any strike or sick leaves till further hearing of the case, which has been fixed on July 13. Admonishing Air India pilots union Indian Pilots Guild, the High Court restrained them from going on strike, report...
03:35 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: There seems to be no end in sight to the deadlock between the Air India management and the pilots with the government, the management and the Indian Pilots Guild sticking to their stands. While the airlines management has moved the Delhi High Court against the striking pilots, the government has hinted at considering downsizing the airline. Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has said that the government may now consider...
01:06 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Investigators probing the blast in 2011 at Delhi High Court say freelance terrorists, those without affiliations to terror outfits, are posing a grave threat and different brand of terrorists are now emerging. Terror groups from across the border, home grown red terror and now another challenge - freelance terrorists or what the National Investigation Agency calls leaderless jihadis. The NIA investigating the Delhi High Court blast of 2011...
06:36 AM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday will deliver a verdict on a plea by a pilots' association of the former domestic carrier Indian Airlines, seeking parity with their counterparts at Air India. The pilots' have alleged that commanders of basic aircraft of former Indian Airlines have been overlooked for training of advanced aircraft like Boeing 747, 787 and 777. Meanwhile, the US Transportation Department has slapped a $...
08:46 AM, May 04, 2012
