NEW DELHI: Advocate Sachin Gupta created a record of sorts on Monday by arguing five PILs one after the other spanning a range of issues – from inclusion of Pali language in the Sixth Schedule to garlic’s ‘tamasic’ quality – only to get a mouthful from Supreme Court and escape exemplary costs by a whisker.Arguing…
NEW DELHI: Expressing serious concern over the functioning of tribunals, Supreme Court on Monday said little accountability was fastened on chairpersons and members of such bodies as they continued even when they were not good enough to write judgments or decide cases expeditiously.“They cannot be put under the control of the govt. They are not…
NEW DELHI: With the Bahrain airport not seeing any commercial flights since Feb 28, the Indian embassy there has made arrangements for stranded compatriots to return home via Saudi Arabia.“The embassy in Riyadh is obtaining individual transit visa approvals from Saudi govt. Transit visa requests are being referred by Indian embassy in Bahrain to Indian…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana high court’s exoneration of jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim on March 7 in the 2002 murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati comes with a scathing indictment of CBI’s investigation – coercion of a key witness, failure to cross-examine the police officer who recorded the victim’s dying declaration and…
New Delhi:The All India Institute of Medical Sciences and the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Human Space Flight Centre on Monday signed an agreement to collaborate on space medicine, opening the door for research on how the human body behaves in space – and how those insights could improve healthcare on Earth.The collaboration establishes a framework…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday closed suo motu contempt proceedings initiated against YouTuber Ajay Shukla for his “defamatory” remarks against a former apex court judge after he tendered an unconditional apology.A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma decided to accept Shukla’s apology and end the proceedings against him but warned him…
NEW DELHI: Ex-IAS officer Anil Tuteja, a powerful bureaucrat in the then Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress govt who is an accused in several major scams, on Monday requested the Supreme Court to direct the investigating agencies to interrogate him continuously in all the cases and then allow him bail till the completion of trials.Appearing for the…
NEW DELHI: Days after it criticised Bengal govt for frequently rushing to SC with ‘vague and irrelevant’ reasons to delay the ongoing SIR of the state’s poll rolls, petitions by persons complaining against deletion of their names from voter lists saw the court finding itself facing the same issue, leading an exasperated bench of CJI…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala minister KB Ganesh Kumar’s wife Bindu Menon has alleged that she found him in a “compromising situation” with another woman at his residence in Kollam’s Valakom on Saturday and sought police help after being stopped from leaving with images recorded on her cellphone.Speaking to a TV channel Monday, Menon called the episode “pathetic”…
JAMMU: An Army jawan went missing during a river-crossing training exercise in Sunderbani area in J&K’s Rajouri district on Monday, triggering a search operation.The soldier was identified as Sepoy Akshit Sharma. He became untraceable around 12pm, the Army’s White Knight Corps wrote in an X post.“Extensive search operations are underway with all available resources of…
