NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Wednesday told Supreme Court that during the special intensive revision (SIR) of Bihar’s electoral rolls, Aadhaar number of a person was accepted, according to SC’s directive, as proof of identity but not as a document to establish Indian citizenship.Responding to an application filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, seeking clarification…
NEW DELHI: Thirty-five years after 21 people were sentenced to life imprisonment in a double murder case in Bihar, Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted the accused and closed the case, cautioning courts to be careful while dealing with the offence of unlawful assembly so that innocent spectators or passive onlookers do not get convicted. SC…
NEW DELHI: Observing that courts cannot yield to public sentiment and external pressures and punish an accused merely on moral convictions or conjectures, the Supreme Court set aside on Wednesday the conviction of a man on death row for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in Chennai in 2017. It said that the…
NEW DELHI: Balancing ecological conservation with advancements in the defence and space sectors, Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the Jharkhand govt seven days to notify 314 sq kms of Saranda forest as a sanctuary but permitted extraction of high-grade iron ore and manganese from mines within the forests for use in Chandrayaan and anti-submarine warfare…
ADGP’s wife Amneet P Kumar said she would ‘get justice at any cost’ CHANDIGARH: IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, wife of senior Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar who allegedly shot himself dead on Tuesday, lodged a complaint with Chandigarh police on Wednesday night seeking an FIR against Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Singh Kapur and Rohtak…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Wednesday issued summons to Shah Rukh Khan-owned Red Chillies Entertainment and Netflix on a defamation suit filed by IRS officer Sameer Wankhede for allegedly tarnishing his reputation in the series “The Ba***ds of Bollywood”.Wankhede has sought Rs 2 crore in damages, to be donated to Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital….
NEW DELHI: The Army will roll out a new combined physical test (CPT) from April next year, under which even senior officers like Brigadiers, Major Generals and Lt Generals will have to prove fitness twice a year. CPT merges the existing battle physical efficiency test (BPET), for officers and soldiers up to the age of…
NEW DELHI: The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked India’s central drug regulatory authority, CDSCO, if the cough syrups allegedly responsible for the deaths had been exported. “Based on the response, WHO may decide on whether to issue a medical product alert or not,” said a source. Source link
NAVI MUMBAI: PM Modi said here on Wednesday that Congress should tell the nation who had caved in to foreign pressure and prevented India from mounting a military response to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Referring to a recent interview of P Chidambaram, PM Modi said, without naming him, “A Congress neta, who has been…
Chief minister Pramod Sawant held discussions with officials from Barca Academy Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant held discussions with officials from Barca Academy on the support required from the state govt for setting up an academy in Goa.The Barca Academy is operative in over 50 different countries, taking the famous FC Barcelona values to more…
