Ex-DU Prof Saibaba acquitted after spending 8 yrs in 'Anda Cell'

More than eight years after his arrest, the Bombay high court on Friday acquitted former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba in an alleged Maoist links case for want of valid sanction for......

'A civil democratic society can ill afford sacrificing the procedural safeguards legislatively provided'

'Sanction serves the salutary object of providing safeguard to the accused from unwarranted prosecution and the agony and trauma of trial, and in the context of the stringent provisions of the......

Pansare case: Irked over probe, HC says state a 'laughing stock'

The Bombay high court on Thursday said the state has been reduced to a "laughing stock" by adopting elementary methods in probing rationalist Govind Pansare's killing. A bench of Justices S C......

What Nehru would have made of the Burari deaths?

'It isn't likely that he would have observed a 'strategic silence' on a sensitive and controversial issue, as is done today by the powers-that-be lest an observation lets the cat out of the bag......

Banned athletes to appeal NADA decision

The 11 athletes, including Asian Games bronze medallist wrestler Mausam Khatri, who were handed two-year bans by a NADA panel for flunking dope tests, are planning to appeal against the decision.......

NADA hearing inconclusive

The NADA Disciplinary Panel hearing the case of 12 dope-tainted athletes, including seven in Commonwealth Games squad, remained inconclusive and said participation of the athletes in the mega event......