Nisarg Shah (Screengrab from video posted by @CollinRugg on X) A University of California San Diego associate professor is under investigation after being confronted on video in an alleged online child predator sting. The video, widely circulated on social media, shows Nisarg Shah being accused of attempting to meet someone he believed to be a…
NEW DELHI: To give ‘baptism by fire’ opportunity to young lawyers and make them learn the art of persuading judges to grant urgent hearing in important matters, Chief Justice of India B R Gavai on Wednesday said from Monday, designated senior advocates will be barred from mentioning cases for listing or urgent hearing.Finding that every…
NEW DELHI: Home ministry Wednesday said it has released central assistance of only Rs 7 crore for modernisation of police to West Bengal in the last five years, against the total allocation of Rs 117 crore under the head. This, it said, was on account of unspent balances and non-submission of utilisation certificates by the…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday said naming of welfare schemes after political netas was all pervasive in states and at Centre and ruled that no exception could be taken to Tamil Nadu govt’s ‘Ungaludan Stalin’ scheme, which translates into ‘Your’s Stalin’.Setting aside Madras HC’s July 31 interim order restraining use of names of political…
NEW DELHI: Top judges of Supreme Court have taken strong exception to the order passed on Tuesday by a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan castigating an Allahabad high court judge for lack of knowledge in criminal law and de-rostering him from hearing criminal cases for life, and are mulling steps to…
Bengaluru: The promises to protect the fast-vanishing green cover and convert large swathes of land into lung spaces in and around Bengaluru notwithstanding, the state govt has set out to concretise the last-standing natural forest patches in the southern parts of Bengaluru.Amid citizens’ fight to save the city’s green spaces, Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) plans…
The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security has ordered heightened security at all Indian airports. This directive follows intelligence about a possible terror threat from September 22 to October 2, 2025. NEW DELHI: The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has directed all stakeholders to enhance security at airports across the country in view of a…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed deep anguish over the prevailing inhuman practice of hand-pulled rickshaws ferrying visitors in the eco-sensitive and automobile-free Matheran hill station in Maharashtra’s Western Ghats and said this belittles India’s march towards a developing country and its Constitution which promises social and economic justice.A bench of Chief Justice…
NEW DELHI: It has been two months since the launch of the central portal mandating that details of all registered waqf properties are uploaded within six months as stipulated by law, but data shared by the govt in Parliament on Wednesday showed that only 69 “makers of waqf” have submitted details of property on the…
KOLKATA: Calcutta high court’s Jalpaiguri circuit bench has commuted the death sentence of 22-year-old Aftab Alam to life imprisonment without parole for 20 years, ruling that justice must not be “bloodthirsty” and punishment should focus on reform, not revenge.Aftab had been convicted of murdering his maternal uncle Mehtab during a robbery attempt at the victim’s…
