The bench rejected Yadav's arguments that he has been in jail for 24 months, saying in comparison to the 14-year sentence awarded to him, 24 months was nothing.
The Gujarat High Court on Friday directed the Union home secretary to give names of at least three police officers who could be considered to be part of the Special Investigation Team that might probe the Ishrat Jahan encounter case.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retain DoPT, Atomic Energy as well as all important policy issues and portfolios not allocated.
The charges against the diamond merchant centre around his firms Diamonds R Us, Solar Exports and Stellar Diamonds making fraudulent use of a credit facility offered by the Punjab National Bank, known as 'letters of undertaking'.
The television czarina celebrates her 43rd birthday.
'The Modi government did not deny it had acquired the NSO platform, and did not deny it was spying on its citizens by hacking into their phones,' says Aakar Patel.
Opposing a special court's summons to three National Security Guard commandos who took part in the anti-terror operation during the 26/11 attacks, the Centre said on Wednesday that secrecy was "fundamental" to their duty.
'The facts have become unimportant and useless.' 'What is important is the constantly shouting of patriotism even as one undermines the interests of the people.' 'And the abusing of rivals as being traitors,' says Aakar Patel.
"Hawkers should be removed from all protected monuments," a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice B C Patel and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul observed.
Paying tributes to Bhimrao Ambedkar, the architect of Constitution, the prime minister said he would be happy to see that India has strengthened and empowered its democracy in the last 70 years.
Several girls were sexually assaulted in a shelter home run by Thakur in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. He was convicted under various sections of IPC, POCSO Act and Juvenile Justice Act.
The Mumbai high court has issued show-cause notices to Maharashtra chief secretary and finance secretary for flouting the 'purchase ceiling' in buying 43 new Skoda cars for the state's council of ministers.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Friday made it clear that it is upto N Srinivasan to take a call on whether he would like to attend the working committee meeting in Kolkata.
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Syed Ahmed Bukhari, whose status as Imam of Jama Masjid was questioned by the Delhi Wakf Board, was on Thursday directed by the Delhi High Court to submit a statement of accounts of the last 30 years to the Board.
The Congress on Wednesday suggested that Jaswant Singh has been handed out poetic justice by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which expelled him today in the wake of his controversial book, projecting Mohammad Ali Jinnah as greater than Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. "We had rejected the contents of the book. The BJP has rejected the author himself," All India Congress Committee general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi said.
Former Board of Control for Cricket in India president Shashank Manohar was "disillusioned" with the proceedings of the Board's Emergent Working Committee meeting, which he had attended as a representative of the Vidarbha Cricket Association.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday put an interim ban on the import and marketing of Chinese make toy globes in India as they incorrectly represented the country's map by not showing Jammu and Kashmir as part of its territory.
The court said the PIL filed by Kapil Dev, Madan Lal and N K P Salve has become infructuous as the players were allowed to participate in the World Cup.
The matter is already fixed for hearing on September 23.
Four Gujarat ministers were handpicked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to organise the reception for Chinese President Xi Jinping, right from the welcome at the airport to the menu for the dinner at the Sabarmati riverfront, reports Sheela Bhatt.
A division bench comprising Justice J N Patel and Justice Bhushan Gavai passed the order on Monday while hearing a public interest litigation filed by Vijay Talewar, a social activist.
ASI officials were involved in corrupt practices in the name of conservation of monuments and were violating various laws, the petitioner's counsel said.
'There is no real doubt that the Congress government was incompetent in stopping the violence against the Sikhs and there are serious charges of mass murder that many in the party face.' 'It would do Indians a great service if the government showed that it was firm and decisive in acting against these people now.'
The bypolls are termed as a 'rehearsal' for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls by CM Yogi Adityanath.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday directed the Centre to explain the reasons behind deferring the implementation of conditional access system in the capital
The Delhi High Court held that a writ or a PIL was maintainable against BCCI as it discharged a public function.
'To selectively look at the operation of certain laws -- in a manner that ignores the realities of caste and gender injustice in India -- and conclude that they are being particularly misused, is plain wrong,' says Aakar Patel.
The Delhi high court took the decision because Sachin Tendulkar is yet to be filed notice in the case.
The Congress, however, downplayed it saying the party did not want to involve its senior leaders in the issue.
Kulbhushan Jadhav's wife and mother will arrive in Islamabad on Monday to meet the Indian prisoner on death row, the Pakistan foreign office has said. They will arrive in Islamabad by a commercial flight and leave the same day after the meeting, it added.
The Delhi high court on Friday gave liberty to the consumer bodies, which have challenged the introduction of CAS, to file fresh petition before a vacation bench as their public interest litigation was not heard due to paucity of time.
Faced with a credibility crisis arising out of the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal, the BCCI has suggested to the Supreme Court a three-member committee made up of eminent persons to probe the corruption case on the directives of the apex court.
We reproduce an appreciation article that Sardar Patel wrote on October 14, 1949, a month before Nehru's 60th birthday, where he heaped praises on Nehru's merits and also went on to elaborate the deep ties he shared with him.
"What is the hurry," Modi said, while referring to Gandhi's hand gestures when he came across to PM's chair.
On the COVID-19 tests, the Home Ministry also said from Thursday tests will be done with the new Rapid Antigen method approved by the Indian Council for Medical Research and Delhi will be given priority for these tests. It said 169 testing centres have also been set up across the national capital.
The process, to be heard in the Royal Courts of Justice in London, could take months as the listing of a hearing will depend on the availability of judges and other factors.
During the arguments in the court, Justice J N Patel remarked that the court would like to spend the Diwali vacation writing out the order and would like the parties involved to finish their arguments before that. "We are not hearing the matter because Reliance Industries is a big company. We are hearing it because it is in the nation's interest," remarked Justice Patel.
A bench headed by Justice A K Patnaik, which had suggested that the probe be conducted by the Justice Mudgal Committee, reserved the order after the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Srinivasan opposed further investigation by the committee and pleaded for setting up a fresh panel.
