The government on Thursday recommended the rejection of five mercy petitions including that of Surendra Koli sent to the gallows for the infamous serial killing of children in Nithari in Noida and of two sisters sentenced to death for murdering several children.
The top court, which had earlier fixed August 31 as the deadline for completion of proceedings including pronouncement of the verdict, took note of the report filed by special judge S K Yadav in the high-profile case.
The indefinite hunger strike of anti-Sikh riot victims was called off on the sixth day on Wednesday after an appeal from Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh to the protesters.
A Delhi court took strong exception to Central Bureau of Investigation's failure to advance final arguments on Tuesday in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler as victims staged a protest outside against the alleged delay in handing out justice.
An official announcement to this effect would be made next week. The vice-chairman would be of Cabinet rank.
Standard and Poor's in its report on October 10 had said that there was one-in-three likelihood of rating downgrade for India in 24 months if 'the country's economic growth prospects dim, its external position deteriorates, its potential climate worsens, or fiscal reforms slow'.
Of all the many arguments in Indian politics that are stupid, hypocritical and wrong -- and there are many -- the one exculpating Modi because of 1984 is the most dangerous, says Mihir S Sharma
Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on Thursday moved the Delhi high court against the trial court's order for reopening of the investigation against him in a 29-year-old anti-Sikh riots case, in which three people were killed. Tytler has challenged the trial court order, which set aside the Central Bureau of Investigation's closure report, giving him a clean chit in the case. The appeal is likely to be listed on Friday for hearing.
It discharged three accused -- Shyam Sahu, Shivnarayan Kalsangra and Praveen Takalki -- from the case.
The BJP MLAs -- Vijender Gupta, O P Sharma and Jagdish Pradhan -- were evicted from the House after they trooped to the Well and raised slogans.
The apex court, however, dismissed a PIL filed by NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation, seeking a court-monitored fresh probe in the Pandya murder case.
The Padma Vibhushan for this year has been awarded to a total of seven prominent personalities, while 16 have been given the Padma Bhushan, 118 have been given the Padma Shri on the 71st Republic Day this year, they said.
Congress leader Sajjan Kumar deserved the "benefit of doubt" in an anti-Sikh riots case as one of the victims and key witness Jagdish Kaur did not name him as an accused in her statement recorded by the Justice Ranganath Mishra panel in 1985, a Delhi court has said.
Indian Olympic Association vice-President Jagdish Tytler lambasted the infighting that has marred the build-up to the December 5 IOA elections, saying that constant bickering has made the body a laughing stock for the entire country.
The full bench of the Election Commission may meet in the first week of March and the announcement of election schedule may take place by March 10
The focus will be on soft skills and personal hygiene.
On October 5, 2019, the sessions court hearing the matter had said that as per Supreme Court orders, all evidence has to be presented before December 24, 2019, which would be the last working day.
Speaking to Rajdeep Sardesai, Tytler denies political interference in the case and says he will wait for a clean chit before accepting any responsibility in the government.
A 29-year-old anti-Sikh riots case came back to haunt senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler with a Delhi court on Wednesday setting aside the Central Bureau of Investigation's closure report giving clean chit to him and ordering reopening of investigation into the killing of three persons.
Acharya emphasised that the time is "really ripe" for land, labour and agricultural reforms in India.
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Major Vibhuti Dhaundiyal attained martyrdom in an encounter with terrorists in Pulwama in Jammu Kashmir.
Three youths created a flutter in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Monday when they suddenly jumped in the well of the House and raised slogans demanding implementation of employment policy.
Terming the rape and murder of a "defenceless" minor girl as the "ultimate insult to womanhood", the Bombay high court on Friday confirmed the death penalty awarded to a 22-year-old youth after it held that the case fell under the "rarest of rare" category.
The health ministry on Friday assured all possible help to the 23-year-old gang-rape victim for her advanced treatment, including organ transplant.
Despite the presence of renowned economists and entrepreneurs, it was Kiran Bedi, a retired police officer-turned activist, who stole the show at the Eighth Annual Indian Business Conference at the Columbia University last week. Suman Mozumder reports
Barack Obama is the worst US president as far as outsourcing is concerned, says Jagdish Bhagwati.
The Bombay high court on Wednesday admitted the appeal filed by a 22-year-old man challenging the death penalty awarded to him for raping and murdering a minor girl and would commence hearing from February 5.
Claiming that normalcy had come back to Bangalore, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagdish Shettar on Saturday exuded confidence that people from northeast, who had left the city due to "rumours", would soon return and said those behind spreading panic would be dealt with sternly.
Arun Jaitley and Amrinder Singh, locked in an intense battle for Amritsar Lok Sabha seat, were on Monday engaged in a fresh war of words, this time on the 1984 riots, with the BJP questioning the "clean chit" to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.
He was most recently credited as one of the brains behind labour law reforms in Rajasthan
The Central Reserve Police Force and the police have seized a huge cache of arms from Maoist hideouts during a search operation in West Bengal's West Midnapore District.
A special judge holding trial in the Babri Masjid demolition case, involving Bharatiya Janata Party veterans L K Advani, M M Joshi and others, on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking six more months to conclude the trial in the case.
Bharatiya Janata Party top brass is confident of tiding over the present crisis in Karnataka till the presidential poll gets over but appears to be getting increasingly reconciled to replacing Sadanand Gowda with Jagdish Shettar as chief minister soon thereafter.
Amidst demands for his arrest for giving a provocative speech at a Congress rally on September 6, Congress leader Jagdish Tytler arrived in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday along with Union minister V Narayansami.
The Congress on Friday said it was sorry for the assault on a woman constable during its rally in Bhubaneswar as the name of All India Congress Committee in-charge of Odisha Jagadish Tytler came up.
Between March 2010 and October 2011, RBI had 13 rate hike.
India had been growing around 8-9 per cent before theglobal financial meltdown of 2008. The growth rate in 2011-12 slipped to nine-year low of 6.5 per cent.
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