Sacked CWG organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi was on Monday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with its probe into alleged forex violations in the run up to the 2010 sporting extravaganza. ...
08:12 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Former judge of the Rajasthan High Court Justice Sajjan Singh Kothari was today sworn in as Lokayukta. Governor Margaret Alva administered him oath of office in the presence of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. ...
12:20 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Speaking to Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate', Italy's Deputy Foreign Minister Staffan de Mistura admits that Rome made a lot of mistakes in the marines' issue. He, however, adds that the crisis is over now and India and Italy should move on as "they definitely deserve more than simply having a crisis". ...
08:45 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Courts should not show "sympathy" towards rapists who have ruined the lives of young girls to satisfy their lust, the Delhi High Court has said, cautioning that letting them off can encourage others to commit such offence. ...
07:00 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Faced with a challenge from the assertive judiciary, President Asif Ali Zardari has quit the political office of co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party and made his son Bilawal its "patron-in-chief". "President Zardari is no more the co-chairman of the PPP. The main body of the PPP has been dissolved and his son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, has been elected the party's patron-in-chief," a close aide to 57-year-old Zardari said. ...
01:40 PM, Mar 23, 2013
The Bombay High Court has found prima facie evidence of corruption worth Rs 6,000 crore in purchases of materials relating to tribal development schemes. The court has handed over investigation into the alleged corruption case to the CBI. ...
12:57 PM, Mar 23, 2013
The Delhi High Court has issued order for setting up of special court to try Italian marines, said sources on Friday night. The two Italian marines accused of killing two fishermen off the Kerala coast reached Delhi on Friday after India gave an assurance that they will not face death penalty nor will they be arrested, bringing to an end a raging 11-day diplomatic row between the two countries. ...
11:51 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Friday lifted the gag order on media and ruled that the media will now be allowed to report on the trial of four accused in the December 16 Delhi gangrape case. ...
11:10 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Tripura, which has the Agartala bench of the Gauhati High Court, would get a separate high court on March 26, official sources said on Thursday. "The Union Law ministry and Supreme court have agreed to set up a separate high court for Tripura on March 26," Tripura Law Secretary Data Mohan Jamatiya told reporters. ...
07:31 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Kerala High Court on Thursday granted bail to the 31 accused in the 1996 Suryanelli gangrape case. A Division Bench comprising Justices KT Shankaran and ML Joseph Francis allowed the bail pleas filed by the accused last month. ...
11:52 AM, Mar 21, 2013
There are 2,63,697 cases pending in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court as of October 2012, the UP government informed the Assembly on Monday. ...
03:53 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Madras High Court has restrained any distributor of the film 'Kadal' from entering the office of 'Madras Talkies' and threatening staff to settle losses incurred by them and also from causing damage to the reputation to the film's director Mani Ratnam. ...
12:05 PM, Mar 14, 2013
The Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday referred back a case of recovery of income tax worth Rs 40 crore from a Ramdev's trust to the Income Tax Judicial Tribunal, asking it to dispose of the case quickly. ...
02:48 AM, Mar 14, 2013
A special NIA court on Wednesday framed additional charges, including that of waging war against India, on Wasim Akram Malik, arrested for his alleged role in the September 2011 Delhi High Court blast that left 15 dead. ...
03:25 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to take steps to arrest "at the earliest" an accused, who is on bail and absconding, charged with raping a minor girl eight months back. "You must arrest him, he must be in custody at the earliest. Instruct the jurisdiction police. We want a report on this. If required, we will order investigation by special branch like CID", a division...
01:58 AM, Mar 13, 2013
The Bombay High Court has restrained the Maharashtra Government from allowing excavation of sand in drought-hit villages, saying it would cause shortage of potable water for people and animals. ...
12:56 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Work was paralysed at the Delhi High Court on Monday after lawyers joined a strike to protest against police action against colleagues in Jaipur and registration of a first information report (FIR) against 20 others in Chandigarh earlier in March 2013. ...
07:30 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Kerala High Court on Monday directed the state government to file a statement regarding details of cases filed by the Suryanelli rape victim against Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien before the magistrate and higher courts. The direction in this regard was issued by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and justice Vinod Chandran on a PIL filed by Kamala Sadanandan, General Secretary of Kerala Mahila Sangam, a...
12:59 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The Rajasthan High Court on Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the clashes between police and lawyers that rocked Jaipur over the past two days and directed the city's commissioner of police and eight other police officials to not hold office until its report is submitted. ...
03:18 AM, Mar 09, 2013
The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition filed by Kingfisher Airlines challenging the Karnataka High Court order directing it to pay over Rs 350 crores of tax deducted at source (TDS). The company contended in its petition that the amount due is much less than the demand made by the IT Department and the department had not given it a proper opportunity to hear its case. ...
03:02 PM, Mar 08, 2013
