
SC's rejection of the plea to review Vodafone judgement has made the announcement to amend the I-T act even more controversial. ...

09:35 PM, Mar 21, 2012

New Delhi: The Finance Ministry is working out the financial implication of the Supreme Court judgement to cancel 122 telecom licences on the banking sector. "We have to see the implication. Officers are working on the impact of judgement on the banks... We will soon have a clear picture," a senior finance ministry official said. Several lenders including the State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Punjab National Bank and IDBI...

04:54 PM, Feb 02, 2012

Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of expert if, the public should question court judgments. ...

12:15 AM, Jul 05, 2011

New Delhi: Twenty-six judgements are likely to be pronounced by the Supreme Court on the first day of its reopening on Monday after 49 days of summer vacation. A maximum of 10 judgements would be delivered by a bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik, while another bench of Justices Mukundkam Sharma and A R Dave would deliver five judgements. Besides, the court would also resume hearing...

10:13 AM, Jul 04, 2011

Los Angeles: Evangelical broadcaster Harold Camping, who rallied thousands of followers with a prophecy that the world would end last month, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke, a spokesman said on Monday. Camping, 89, fell ill after a broadcast of his daily Open Forum radio show last Thursday in Oakland, California, and was admitted to a hospital in the San Francisco Bay area, said Tom Evans, a spokesman for...

11:17 AM, Jun 14, 2011

New Delhi: Doomsayers are having a field day, selling T-shirts, carrying sign boards and wagging their fingers at skeptics as they predict the beginning of the end of the world. May 21, 6 pm, to be precise. And if you are the type that waits until the last day to pay bills, it is too early to say if you can wriggle out of paying this month, as naysayers rubbish...

01:57 PM, May 20, 2011

There is a group of people who say this Saturday will be the end of the world. ...

03:33 PM, May 19, 2011

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued a contempt notice to the Home Secretary and the Director General of Police of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly not complying with its order of reinstatement of all 19,000 police constables whose jobs were terminated by the government in 2007. A bench of Justices D K Jain and H L Dattu directed the top officials to file its reply within eight weeks on...

07:37 PM, May 09, 2011

New Delhi: Holding honour killings as a slur on the nation and a barbaric, feudal practice that ought to be stamped out, the Supreme Court on Monday directed courts to view such cases as "rarest of rare" category for awarding death penalty to the convicts. "In our opinion honour killings, for whatever reason, come within the category of rarest of rare cases deserving death punishment. It is time to stamp...

05:10 PM, May 09, 2011

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has chargesheeted retired Punjab and Haryana High Court judge Justice Nirmal Yadav in the 2008 cash-at-door scam. The 45-page CBI chargesheet in the case says that Yadav fast-tracked a property dispute case that she was hearing and ruled in favour of the party represented by the then Additional Advocate General of Haryana Sanjiv Bansal. The CBI also claims she took Rs 15...

09:09 AM, Mar 09, 2011

Ahmedabad: A week after the 31 accused were held guilty of conspiring and setting the S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express on fire in Feburary 2002 and killing 59 people, mainly kar sewaks, the special court in Ahmedabad's Sabarmati Jail on Tuesday handed the death penalty to 11, while 20 other convicts were sentenced to life. The key conspirators given the death penalty include Razzak Kurkur, the owner of the Aman...

08:54 PM, Mar 01, 2011

Godhra: After nine years, 63 persons freed from all the charges in the Godhra train burning case can now walk free. All of them were brought to Godhra where they were welcomed by either relatives at around midnight on Tuesday. "I was in hell for nine years. Now, I am in paradise. I can't say anything more," said Mohammad Isaak Mamdu. But the question still haunts them - why were...

07:41 AM, Feb 23, 2011

Ahmedabad: The timeline of events related to the 2002 Godhra train carnage case in Gujarat: Feb 27, 2002: 59 people killed as mob attacks S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express - en route from Ayodhya to Ahmedabad -- near Godhra railway station in Gujarat. May 22, 2002: First chargesheet filed by investigation agency, no mention of offences under the provisions of Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). Dec 19, 2002: Second...

12:44 PM, Feb 22, 2011

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad police on Saturday restricted the media from telecasting and printing the 2002 riots-related footages and photographs on February 22, the day when the court will pronounce its verdict in the Godhra train carnage that triggered large-scale communal violence nine years ago. "The notification restricts electronic media from broadcasting 2002 riot-related file footages and also restricts print media from publishing any riot-related photographs on February 22 and 23,"...

08:56 PM, Feb 19, 2011

Raipur: A two member bench of the Chhattisgarh High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on Dr Binayak Sen's bail plea. "I hope he will get bail and if not we will approach the Supreme court for justice," his brother Dipankar Sen said. Two European Union members, both from France were present, along with an Amnesty International representative were also present in the court during the hearing. Prosecution tried to...

04:07 PM, Feb 09, 2011