Rampal won't walk free as he is facing several other charges including murder.
What did Mamata and Yogi, who were seated one seat away from each other, say to each other, we wonder.
The Centre stressed that the next three weeks will be critical for the country reeling from the worst health crisis as it announced a series of measures to shore up medical infrastructure and supplies and scale up vaccination.
Ten days, 6 deaths and after scores were injured, controversial godman Sant Rampal was arrested on Wednesday night from his ashram - Satlok Ashram in Hisar, Haryana.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday on Tuesday contended before the Delhi high court that former Haryana Chief Minister O P Chautala was the "main conspirator" in the junior basic trained teachers' recruitment scam of 2000.
Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal's bullet-proof car was damaged and four people were injured in a clash between Congress and Akali workers during the filing of nomination papers for the Jalalabad municipal polls in Fazilka on Tuesday, officials said.
Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu said government facilitates freedom fighters and gives pension but revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh are not even give the status of a martyr leave aside any financial support to their families.
The division bench of the court, hearing the dissident MLAs petition against the Speaker's notices, adjourned Friday evening. It fixed the next hearing for 10 am on Monday. The counsel for the Speaker assured the court that no order shall be passed on the notice till 5.30 pm on Tuesday.
The Delhi high court on Monday sought a response from the Central Bureau of Investigation on the bail pleas of two persons who were sentenced, along with former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, in a teacher recruitment scam case, challenging their conviction and jail term awarded to them.
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was on Saturday announced as the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance's vice presidential candidate.
"I want to clarify one thing that the BJP is not going to take the support of Kanda," he told reporters in Chandigarh.
Harman Preet Singh had claimed in his petition, filed through advocates Ashima Mandla and Mandakini Singh, that Delhi Police on January 27 said that it has detained over 200 persons in connection with the violence in the national capital on January 26 and 22 FIRs have also been registered thus far.
With the spate of businesses turning their attention to Ayodhya, land rates have shot up, in some pockets by as much as 10 times. Whether one walks into a hotel lobby or sits down for a meal, land deals are being discussed at every other table -- one on one or among groups.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected BCCI's suggestion for setting up a special committee to probe the IPL spot-fixing scandal and proposed a three-member panel headed by former Punjab and Haryana Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal to examine the issue.
Jawid said he also did not get compensation of Rs 10 lakh announced by the Centre as the DNA samples between Shabbir and his family did not match.
The Dera Sacha Sauda chief and the three others convicted last Friday in the case appeared before the court through video conferencing.
Absconding former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda's anticipatory bail plea was opposed in the Delhi high court on Tuesday by the police, which said his custodial interrogation was necessary to unearth the conspiracy leading to the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma.
Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, who is serving jail term for his involvement in teachers recruitment scam, was Thursday shifted from RamManoharLohiaHospital to a private hospital in Gurgaon for undergoing pacemaker implant surgery.
The Delhi high court on Thursday ordered setting up of a medical board to examine the health condition of former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, who along with 54 others is serving a jail term in the 2000 teachers' recruitment scam.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Thursday reserved its order on the maintainability of a writ petition filed by a local activist -- seeking a probe into allegations of irregularities against Robert Vadra relating to his land transactions with real estate major DLF in Haryana.
The flow rate at the Hathnikund barrage saw a marginal rise on Tuesday afternoon, oscillating between 50,000 and 60,000 cusecs.
Former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, arrested for his alleged role in air hostess Geetika Sharma's suicide case, was on Monday denied bail by the Delhi high court.
Efforts continued to trace Dera chief's adopted daughter Honeypreet Insan.
The Congress has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of making efforts to topple the Gehlot government by indulging in horse-trading.
It observed that an expert, in such a situation, could not have given a different opinion and said, "It was unjust to attribute any motive to Manocha that he changed his original stand in the written opinion."
Centre asked Rajasthan, Gujarat and Haryana governments to tighten security as the three states have a large number of followers of Asaram.
A Pakistani court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by an Indian lawyer and social worker seeking custody of a deaf and mute Indian girl stuck in Pakistan for over a decade, refusing to issue orders for her "forced repatriation".
Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala on Thursday moved the Delhi high court challenging his conviction and 10 years sentence for illegally recruiting 3,206 junior teachers 12 years ago.
The alarming pollution level is literally 'capital punishment' for Delhi'ites who are being robbed of three years of their lives due to it, Delhi High Court said on Thursday, holding government's inaction and stubble burning in Punjab as being responsible for the "genocide".
The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the city police to file its response to the bail application of former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, an accused in the air hostess Geetika Sharma suicide case.
'These three wrestlers (Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik) are indirectly or directly part of the Congress.'
'The oxygen crisis is at its worst. It is adding more pressure on the functioning. No one is able to help'
According to a senior source in the Intelligence Bureau, when a minor blast occurred outside the Delhi high court on May 25, an intelligence input was received that a Sikh militant group may try to do something in New Delhi to bring attention to Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar's mercy please before President Pratibha Patil.
N Srinivasan was "quite happy" after the Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed him to resume his duties as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. 'I think the Supreme Court has said I can resume functioning and discharge my functions. So I am quite happy because BCCI needs somebody,' Srinivasan told reporters after the ruling.
The Delhi High Court-appointed observer Justice Mukul Mudgal has given a scathing report on the Delhi and Districts Cricket Association's functioning during this year's Indian Premier League with strong observations against a few senior DDCA office-bearers.
Absconding ex-Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda's anticipatory bail plea in the Geetika Sharma suicide case was on Friday dismissed by the Delhi high court on the ground that it has not been filed by the person who is apprehending arrest.
'If you talk about any kind of equality, you are under attack.'
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh claimed that he has been elected as the president of the Wrestling Federation of India amidst controversy surrounding the electoral college of national body.
A Delhi Police Crime Branch team led by encounter specialist Rathi had on March 31, 1997, fired indiscriminately after suspecting that the businessmen were Uttar Pradesh-based gangsters wanted by the police.
The sect chief is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two women disciples at his ashram in Sirsa, where the dera is headquartered.
