NEW DELHI: Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to examine whether a constitutional court can award a sentence of specific number of years to a convict in a heinous crime in substitution of life sentence imposed by a trial court, and said it was prima facie of the view that fixed term sentences could be handed…
ICC stood ground and reiterated that Pycroft is not guilty of any code of conduct violation. (Video grab) Will they? Won’t they? The guesswork continued for the last few days as there was a lot of uncertainty regarding Pakistan’s participation in the ongoing Asia Cup. To make matters worse, the side decided against boarding the…
DHAR: A “tearful” Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) commander’s rant in public about the price his outfit had to pay for being Islamabad’s proxy against India is further proof of “Indian soldiers bringing Pakistan to its knees in the blink of an eye” during Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, alluding to an undated viral…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday cancelled the bail granted to gangster Chhota Rajan by Bombay high court in the murder of hotelier Jaya Shetty in 2001.Rajan was sentenced to life in the Shetty murder case in May 2024. The apex court, led by Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, allowed the CBI’s appeal…
NEW DELHI: Electors will now be able to view the choice of candidates more clearly while voting in a Lok Sabha or assembly poll, with Election Commission on Wednesday allowing colour photos of candidates on the EVM ballot paper, alongside their names printed in uniform font type and a conspicuous font size.The changes – which…
Lucknow: A seven-year-old boy was swept away in an open drain near Haider Canal in the Hussainganj area of Lucknow on Wednesday evening.Despite hours of search operation by SDRF personnel, divers, police and municipal teams, the boy was not found until the last reports came in.The victim, identified as Veeru, lived with his father Nanhe,…
NEW DELHI: ED Tuesday arrested former Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) commissioner GT Dinesh Kumar in a money laundering case related to illegal allotment of plots. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and his wife are among others facing investigation in the case. He was produced before the special court on Wednesday and remanded in ED custody for…
On Sept 17, his 75th birthday, PM Narendra Modi launched India’s largest-ever health outreach programme for women and children, called the Swastha Nari Sashakt Parivar health initiative, and exhorted women to actively participate in the initiative. Under the initiative, the govt is going to organise more than 10 lakh health camps between Sept 17 and…
DUBAI: Asia Cup was enveloped in high drama Wednesday as the Pakistan team, smarting over being refused handshakes before and after the India match last Sunday, first threatened to boycott its must-win game against UAE, then started play an hour late. The team initially refused to travel to Dubai International Cricket Stadium after its call…
BENGALURU: Even as Supreme Court’s verdict on the validity of SIR of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar will determine its pan-India rollout, Karnataka is ready to launch the exercise as early as next week.Sources in the office of Karnataka’s chief electoral officer said preparations for SIR are almost complete. CEO V Anbukumar, however, said the…
