A plea for lodging a criminal case against self-proclaimed godman Nirmal Baba for allegedly cheating people and breaching public trust was on Monday dismissed by a Delhi court. Metropolitan Magistrate Neeraj Gaur dismissed advocate Prem Shankar Sharma's complaint for direction to the police to register an FIR against Nirmaljeet Singh Narula alias Nirmal Baba and asked Sharma to lead pre-summoning evidence in favour of his complaint. ...
02:36 AM, Nov 27, 2012
The execution of 26/11 terror attack convict Ajmal Kasab will not affect the ongoing trial of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan, his advocate Awais Sheikh has said. "Sarabjit and Kasab's cases are different. ...
05:11 PM, Nov 25, 2012
Mumbai: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan finds the ongoing controversy regarding the number of screens alloted for the release of his film 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan' and Ajay Devgn's 'Son of Sardar' "silly and strange" and insists that it is a free market and not "monopolistic". Ajay Devgn Films Pvt Ltd (ADF) had moved the Competition Commission Of India (CCI) claiming that Yash Raj Films (YRF) was using its dominant position...
06:44 PM, Nov 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu government has said it will file a contempt petition against Karnataka in the Supreme Court over its decision to halt the release of water from the Cauvery to the state. Karnataka on late Monday stopped releasing Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu, hours after the state informed the Supreme Court that it was in no position to continue the water flow from Monday night, a...
01:44 PM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL seeking its direction for the removal of K Rosaiah as Tamil Nadu governor on the ground that a criminal case has been filed against him in Andhra Pradesh. A bench headed by justice A K Patnaik refused to entertain the PIL, saying there has been no violation of the Fundamental Rights of the petitioner to file the petition and the...
12:42 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Kolkata: The Kolkata High Court is expected to pass an order on Monday on whether criminal charges should be filed against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her comments against the judiciary more than a month ago when she had claimed that the judgments of the judiciary can be bought. Mamata had made the comments in the state Assembly and said that she was ready to go to jail...
08:25 AM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: Google has announced the Doodle 4 Google competition for 2012 with the theme of "Unity in Diversity". The company invites all children between the ages of 5 to 16 years to share their creativity by doodling on the Google logo. The winning Doodle will be featured on the Google (India) HomePage on Children's Day (November 14). The final winner of the competition will be announced on November 6....
05:56 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Mumbai: Ajmal Amir Kasab's mercy petition, addressed to President Pranab Mukherjee, has been "rejected" by Maharashtra Home Ministry, days after the lone surviving perpetrator of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks set in motion the last option available to save his life. "The Home Ministry has rejected Kasab's petition and has forwarded it to the Chief Minister's Office," sources in the home department said on Monday. Under the rules, the Chief Minister's...
05:06 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a contempt petition against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her comments against the judiciary more than a month ago when she had claimed that the judgments of the judiciary can be bought. Mamata had made the comments in the state Assembly and said that she was ready to go to jail for the same. "At times favourable verdicts are...
08:57 AM, Sep 24, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The CBI court here on Tuesday dismissed a batch of petitions seeking further investigation into the sensational Sister Abhaya case, saying that the earlier investigation by the CBI was not tainted or biased. CBI Judge T S P Moosath, in two different orders, said that there were no circumstances which warranted further investigation. The court made it clear that the issues highlighted in the pleas were earlier probed by...
12:51 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Mumbai: The 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks convict Ajmal Kasab has sent his mercy petition to President Pranab Mukherjee. Kasab's mercy plea has been filed through the Arthur road jailor to the President's office. Kasab has been sentenced to death in the 26/11 case. If executed, Kasab will be the 52nd person to be hanged in India since independence. Kasab has ahead of him people like Mohammed Afzal Guru, the terrorist...
01:06 PM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: Sony Corp won't be drawn into price competition in the tablet PC market amid a plethora of new cheap models from other makers, the executive in charge of the Japanese company's mobile devices division said on Tuesday. Sony is also lithe enough and has enough research and development capability to compete against rivals Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics in smartphones, Kunimasa Suzuki, an executive vice president at Sony,...
11:33 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Mumbai: With the Supreme Court upholding death sentence for 26/11 attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, he became the 309th prisoner in India awaiting execution. The long list of convicts on death row means that Kasab may not be hanged soon. If executed, Kasab will be the 52nd person to be hanged in India since independence. At least 256 condemned convicts are currently awaiting Supreme Court's and high courts' endorsement to...
05:17 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Calling the Supreme Court judgement a bad one, Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy said that he will file a review petition in the Supreme Court. ...
11:50 AM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: Former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma will file an election petition in the Supreme Court on Tuesday challenging the election of Pranab Mukherjee as President. "Sangma will be filing the election petition before the Supreme Court on Tuesday against Pranab Mukherjee challenging his election as President of India," Satya Pal Jain, who is Sangma's lawyer, said in New Delhi on Saturday. Jain said preparations for filing the election...
06:51 PM, Aug 18, 2012
Chennai: A complaint has been lodged with the TN State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) to protect the interest of school-going children, who are at the mercy of the crew members of the various government transport corporations. In his complaint before the Commission, R Randeep of Seven Wells submitted that all the children studying in government and government-aided schools were provided with bus passes to use the public transport. However, during...
01:45 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Chennai: Want to submit a petition to Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa but are wary of the possible hassle in approaching her special cell? Relax. You can now file it online and get an acknowledgement. A new website for the Chief Ministers Special Cell that facilitates you to file your petitions online has just been inaugurated by Jayalalithaa. After you mail your petition to the website, http://tn.cm.gov.in, an acknowledgement will be...
12:59 PM, Aug 13, 2012
Chennai: President-elect Pranab Mukherjee may not even have taken the oath of office yet, but there already seems to be an item on his agenda. A short while after Mukherjee was declared winner in the Presidential polls, UPA ally and DMK chief M Karunanidhi said his partys demands against the death sentence of three Rajiv Gandhis assassination convicts would continue to stand. Speaking to reporters, Karunanidhi said he had spoken...
10:42 AM, Jul 23, 2012
Raipur: The main opposition Congress on Friday filed a criminal petition in the sessions court here against Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and two others, accusing them of corruption, in connection with regularisation of land in the possession of Bharat Aluminium Compnay Ltd. Former minister and Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel filed the petition, seeking investigation against the Chief Minister, the then Chief Secretary P Ummen and BALCO CEO Gunjan Gupta....
12:23 AM, Jul 21, 2012
