Litigants suffered as lawyers on Friday struck work in four district courts in New Delhi to protest what they called 'usurping' of the Bar Council's power by the Delhi High Court by barring two advocates -- R K Anand and I U Khan -- from practising for four months.Litigants had to return dejected as work remained affected in Tis Hazari, Patiala House, Karkardooma and Rohini courts with lawyers either seeking adjournments or keeping away.
Special judge Dharmesh Sharma, who is conducting trial of the cases, shall record her testimony.
Clash between BJP workers and lawyers outside Kiran Bedi's office
A court on Thursday sentenced three Khalistan Jindabad Force (KJF) militants to five-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) each for exploding a bomb at Kailash hotel in Paharganj area eight years ago.
During the hearing, the 92-year-old senior lawyer had told the apex court that it must do 'full and complete justice' in all matters before it and that his last wish before he died was to finish the case.
The court had earlier issued production warrants at three occasions against Salem but a Mumbai court had stayed his production here on his lawyer's plea on security grounds.
The function at India Gate will begin at 9 am, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Alok Kumar, said.
Social activists Aruna Roy, Mamta Jaitely and others were present during the entry and expressed solidarity with Dalit cause.
The CBI's probe into the fake stamp paper scam received a shot in the arm on Wednesday with a court in Delhi accepting an application by an associate of kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi in which he voluntarily pleaded guilty.
JMM has called for observing 'black day' in Ranchi following the sentencing of Shibu Soren.
More than 50 inmates of Tihar Jail have gone on a hunger strike against a recent guideline by prison authorities which allows them to meet their relatives only once a week instead of the two times which was the norm before.
Hemendra Hazari of Karvy Stock Broking believes that government banks will be impacted by rising bond yield because they have a much higher proportion of investments and their durations are higher too.
The complainant alleged that Kejriwal had "intentionally" used such defamatory words with a view to spreading a sense of "hatred and contempt" towards the PM.
Union Coal Minister Shibu Soren was on Tuesday night lodged in Tihar jail soon after he was convicted by a Delhi court in a murder case.
The families were traced to Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
Two midcap banking stocks have been on a roll; Centurion BoP on the news of its merger with Lord Krishna Bank merger, and IndusInd Bank, which might be looking at a foreign buyer.
Polling for three parliamentary seats and 29 assembly constituencies were held on October 30, an exercise being seen as a barometer of the political mood in the country ahead of assembly elections in politically critical Uttar Pradesh as well as other states.
A vegetable vendor, who killed his wife as he did not like her complexion, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court on Wednesday.
But the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief will not be freed till his production before the Tis Hazari court in connection with two other cases.
Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday said India needs 'determination and will' for faster technological development to cope with the changes taking place at the international level.
Unbeaten half-centuries by Kanwaljeet Singh and M M Dar helped Jammu and Kashmir register a healthy 243 for two against Saurashtra.
The court also directed the CBI to continue assessing threat perception to the life and security of the survivor and her family members every three months.
There are 17 post graduates, 29 graduates among 70 newly-elected MLAs.
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'The most serious issue is that of shooting a lawyer in the chest. That news has been buried.'
In a veiled dig to arrested controversial godman Asaram Bapu, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said hordes of security personnel have been guarding one accused, which is not needed.
In a shocking incident, two minor sisters, who were forced to live in a dark, locked room devoid of ventilation in outer Delhi's Samaypur Badli area after being deserted by their drunkard father, were rescued with deep wounds due to maggot infection, police said on Friday.
From police refusing to name the accused when the complaint was first filed to seeing her father tortured and killed, from her uncle being ensnared in an unrelated case to suffering an accident, which had clear marks of a conspiracy, the going was tough for her.
A pistol of 9 mm calibre, laptop, mobile phones, USD 2,000, 13,000 in Bangladeshi currency and Indian rupees were recovered from him.
The Indian agencies managed yet another breakthrough in cracking the Indian Mujahideen when an operative from Sharjah was deported to India. The man in question is Faizan Ahmed Sultan alias Faizan Azmi, a resident of Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, who was allegedly working for the terror outfit from Sharjah.
The community has taken offence to being wrongly stereotyped as watchmen in the ad which also plays on an exaggerated Hindi accent to seem funny
This is the fifth time that Nitish will be the chief minister of Bihar and this will be his third consecutive term.
Here's a look at where heavyweights stand.
Kin of jailed leaders Mahipal Maderna, Malkhan Singh Bishnoi and Babulal Nagar -- accused in cases like rape and murder -- have found place in the third list of Congress hopefuls for the Assembly elections along with two other party leaders who are facing criminal charges.
Controversial Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, who was a key figure in the Bofors payoffs scandal, has died in Milan following a stroke.
The court said that the offence of defamation was bailable and granted bail to Kejriwal on furnishing a personal bond of Rs 10,000 and a surety of the like amount.
A Delhi court on Monday sent a youth, arrested in connection with the hit-and-run case in which an IAF corporal was killed, to two days transit remand.
A Delhi court on framed charges against the driver of US-based cab service provider Uber for alleged rape and kidnapping, amid some drama by him inside the court room.
The Sindhis are a lesson in perseverance. Once uprooted, they've started all over, often reinventing themselves
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