NEW DELHI: Acknowledging that the enormous amount of judicial time spent over the years to tackle pollution in Delhi had yielded only marginal benefits, Supreme Court Friday said when more and more restrictions, without scientific basis, were put in place, people tended to violate them with a vengeance, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.Reflecting on numerous orders and…
NEW DELHI: Observing that the Constitution is supreme and that no individual or political organisation stands above it, Supreme Court Friday issued notice to office-bearers of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), including its president, seeking their response on why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them over a now-deleted social media post on CJI…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has allowed a complainant to submit additional documents in a case alleging that Congress MP Sonia Gandhi was included in poll rolls before acquiring Indian citizenship.The ACJM court has scheduled the next hearing for Nov 18 after the complainant’s counsel sought more time to place further evidence on record.The complaint…
NEW DELHI: Sikkim HC, with a sanctioned strength of three judges but a working strength of two, is unable to hear intra-court appeals against judgements rendered by two single-judge benches headed by the chief justice and the other judge.Pendency of appeals against single-judge bench’s orders has forced Sikkim CJ A Muhammed Mustaque to write to…
NEW DELHI: India’s postgraduate medical education system is set for a major expansion, with 9,783 seats being added for the 2026-27 academic year. The increase takes the total approved PG intake to 68,305, up from 58,522, with govt medical colleges accounting for the largest share of the new seats.Of the additional seats, 4,373 have been…
NEW DELHI: From a Bajaj Auto dealership in Maharashtra to one of the largest consumer durable companies in the country, life has come full circle for Videocon Industries’ ousted promoter Venugopal Dhoot who was declared bankrupt by National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) a day before Dhanteras, reports Amit Anand Choudhary.Dhoot is one of the most…
Karnataka minister Rizwan Arshad Friday alleged that tests at state-authorised labs found “excess” mixing of ethanol in E20 fuel, as high as 31.2% in some cases. Samples were collected from 63 petrol bunks across the state and 14 of them had ethanol above the prescribed limit, he said. PSUs denied the claim, saying it was…
They won’t have to fill form 6, EC saysNEW DELHI: Electors across seven states/UTs undergoing SIR, including Delhi, who were excluded from the draft electoral roll on account of being absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD) and whose enumeration forms (EFs) were not received, will be provided one more opportunity to get their names included…
Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah SRINAGAR: With National Conference (NC) facing its biggest internal challenge in recent decades, party president Farooq Abdullah and Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah held a meeting with 15 of the 25 rebel MLAs at the former’s residence for over two hours on Friday morning in a bid to…
Rahul Gandhi shared a video of Amit Shah’s contrasting remarks on a parliamentary debate on SIR. NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, urged home minister Amit Shah to convince Prime Minister Narendra Modi to have a debate with him on special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls in the Parliament. He…
