In a setback to YSR Congress President Jaganmohan Reddy, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay an Andhra Pradesh high court order for a preliminary Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry to ascertain if he owns assets disproportionate to his income.
The lawsuit, by four industry associations and 34 producers, seeks the court's direction to Republic TV, its editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and reporter Pradeep Bhandari, Times Now, its editor-in-chief Rahul Shivshankar and group editor Navika Kumar and unknown defendants as well as social media platforms to refrain from making or publishing allegedly irresponsible, derogatory and defamatory remarks against Bollywood.
The former Satyam employees, who were granted bail, were its former internal chief auditor V S Prabhakar Gupta besides executives G Ramakrishna, D Venkatpathi Raju and Ch Srisailam. The fifth accused, who got the bail, is PWC's former auditor Subramani Gopalakrishnan.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Centre and Air India on a plea seeking minimum Rs 75 lakh compensation for each of the 158 victims of the May 2010 Mangalore air crash.
In a setback to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalaltihaa, the Supreme Court on Monday directed her to appear before the special court trying the disproportionate assets case against her.
The government has allocated $ 241,000 to the Indo-Canadian Women's Association, Edmonton, Alberta, to deal with violence against women and girls, Rona Ambrose, the minister of public works and government services, and status of women announced on February 11.
Uttam RajBhandary, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Molecular Biology and Associate Head of the Department of Biology at MIT, knew Dr Har Gobind Khorana for close to half a century. Many consider him the late Nobel Laureate's closest friend and colleague. He spoke to India Abroad.
In the backdrop of the revelation that Wazhul Kamar Khan, whose name figures in the '50 most wanted' fugitives' list submitted to Pakistan, has been staying in neighbouring Thane district, the Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said that Home Minister R R Patil should clear air on the issue.
A compilation of results from the Vijay Hazare Trophy matches played on Saturday.
The issue of allotment of a piece of prime land to incarcerated self-styled godman Asaram Bapu's trust for his ashram in Indore in 1998 by the then Digvijaya Singh-led Congress government has reached the court.
Dr Singh was awarded the Doctor of Laws degree (honoris causa) at a special convocation in November 3, 2009. But his name was missing from a list, which was provided to RTI applicant Rajinder K Singla recently, the university Registrar A K Bhandari said in a statement in Chandigarh on Saturday.
The Emergency greatly influenced the RSS' makeover from a fringe force in the Indian political imagination to one that could have its own man sworn in as prime minister in two decades' time. A riveting excerpt from Christophe Jaffrelot and Pratinav Anil's India's First Dictatorship: The Emergency, 1975-1977.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Centre for limiting the number of below poverty line (PDS) people in a state to 36 per cent of its population as per the Planning Commission's recommendations.
The court also decided to hear the bail pleas of four of the accused.
They had approached the apex court against the August 30 order of Andhra Pradesh High Court which had rejected their bail pleas.
'The web of transactions is so complex that it requires expertise to understand the strategies involved in each fraud.'
Expressing serious concern over the growing instances of starvation deaths in the country, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said there cannot be "two Indias" divided between the elite and the poor.
The Supreme Court took strong exception to the reported remarks of Maharashtra Chief Secretary J J Dange that destitutes from other states can go back to their native states and that the state government was not obliged to implement all court directives.
Whether its fashion, bold make-up or funky hairdos, our B-town beauties never fail to surprise us with their choices every time they step out.
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed all states and union territories to ensure that no night shelter was demolished amid the biting winter cold and slammed the Delhi Development Authority for demolishing two such facilities in the capital.
Two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, masquerading as labourers, were arrested by the Himachal Pradesh Police in Kotla area in Kangra district of the hill state in the wee hours on Wednesday.
Taking suo motu cognisance of reports that night shelters have been razed in the city in the midst of winter, the Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained the Delhi government from demolishing any such shelter, temporary or permanent, in the capital.
All the scams that have tumbled out of the closet in the last few months have exposed one more time the link that exists between businessmen and politicians.
Sayantani Ghosh speaks about her upcoming show Rakth Sambandh and much more.
Hearing the Central Bureau of Investigation plea, a Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma on Tuesday cancelled the bails and asked all six persons to surrender by November 8.
Every day a Party unfolds on social media where armchair activists, politically charged influencers, trend pundits, gyaan givers and troll armies change the world in their heads but remain clueless about the nation's grassroots reality, feels Sukanya Verma.
India's manufacturing PMI rose to 54.5 in December, 2014, while in the corresponding period a year ago it stood at 50.7, just above the crucial 50 mark which separates growth from contraction.
In a breakthrough, Mumbai Police on Monday claimed to have cracked the five-month old module of gangster Ravi Pujari operating in Mumbai, with the arrest of three Nepalis and two Gujaratis, who used to flee to Ahmedabad after carrying out every firing in the city.
The apex court ruled on August 12 that the Centre give away foodgrain to the hungry and poor, instead of allowing it to rot in Food Corporation of India godowns.
The good news is that India is hitting critical mass across product categories like mobile telephony, auto and consumer electronics, to name a few.
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While Vadra was grilled for the first time for about five-and-a-half hours, he was questioned the second time for about 9 hours.
Pranav Dhanawade had another moment to cherish after scoring a record breaking 1009 when Sachin Tenduklar gifted the Mumbai schoolboy his autographed bat. "Master Blaster @sachin_rt gifts his own autographed bat to #PranavDhanawade for his record breaking innings," the BCCI confirmed Tendulkar's gesture in a tweet.
Ace marksman Gagan Narang added the 50m rifle prone position gold to the one he won earlier in the 10m event, while Olympic quota earner Annu Raj Singh grabbed the air pistol crown in the Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championships.
At the prison, both Ranjan and Manglik's cell phones were pressed into service by the CBI. Why the CBI didn't bring its own equipment seems a mystery... Ranjan's cell handset was given to Indrani and Manglik dialed it. Indrani then spoke and her speech, that emanated from the phone, via speaker mode, was recorded.
India's youngest Everest summiteer Arjun Vajpayee was to receive a medal from President of Nepal Ram Baran Yadav at function on Saturday, but instead recieved his medal from Nepal's minister of tourism & civil aviation, Sharat Singh Bhandari.
If all goes well, the money spent by companies for corporate social responsibility may increase in the days to come.
'Keeping its financial interests in mind, China wants no enmity with the Nepalese government.'
