A bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari issued notice to the Centre, West Bengal and Election Commission of India on the plea, which also sought to central and state governments to award compensation to the victims and their family members after ascertaining the nature of loss sustained by them in post-poll violence in the state.
Pakistan on Tuesday hanged 17 prisoners, the highest number of executions on a single day
Lakdawala was apprehended by Mumbai Crime Branch's anti-extortion cell team at the International Airport. He once worked for underworld don Dawood Ibrahim before forming his own gang.
"Collective conscience of the society shaken. In our society, minor girls are worshipped as goddess," the POCSO court said.
Sources said her platelet count is low and she is admitted at the neurosurgery ICU of the hospital. "She is in the neurosurgery ICU currently and has to be operated, but then her platelet count is very low. Her condition is being closely monitored. She has a severe head injury," sources told PTI.
Kate Winslet won her second Emmy for playing the role of Detective Mare Sheehan in Mare Of Easttown.
As of now, there is nothing to suggest that the 'Michaelpatti episode' has the potential to polarise Dravidian Tamil Nadu on religious lines, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar, one of the well known psychiatrists in Chennai and the founder-trustee of Sneha, a voluntary centre for suicide prevention, answers some of these questions raised by the murder of a teacher by a student in Chennai.
'You are with each other 24x7, so how can you ignore someone crying next to you?' 'How can you not share a piece of chicken with someone who is sitting next to you and watching you eat it?' 'Of course, you will share.' 'And you become friends with the kind of people you never thought you'd even know.'
'A 2018 murder may lead to shifts in the geopolitical order and impact at least one monarchy,' says Devangshu Datta.
The appeal would come up for hearing on Friday before Additional Sessions Judge Vimal Kumar Yadav.
Six states and UTs -- Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tripura and Daman & Diu -- have not spent a single rupee from the fund allocated by the Centre, according to data shared by the minister in Parliament in response to a question.
Friday's explosion on the London tube is the latest in a string of terror attacks in the United Kingdom in recent years. Here is a timeline of the terror that has unfolded in the UK.
'They (the characters) are not bad people; they are good people, who make bad choices.' 'The idea was to show that when people are put in a situation, which side of the moral spectrum do they fall on?'
The driver of the private school van had his earphones on and was driving on the wrong side of the road. The milk tanker driver was allegedly under the influence of alcohol, police said.
The furore over the release of the RJD strongman from Siwan has now reached the apex court through various petitions.
Sarmistha Sen, who was based in Plano, Texas, was randomly attacked and killed while jogging on August 1 near the Chisholm Trail Park.
'The CM was in Gorakhpur when this attempt to murder took place on my brother.' 'I waited for two days to see what action the police takes, but after 48 hours, the police has not even questioned Paswan.'
The expelled BJP MLA is accused of raping the woman in 2017. He is also facing murder charges as the woman was hit by a truck in July. Her two aunts were killed in the accident.
While a nine-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Uttar Pradesh's Etah, an 11-year-old girl was allegedly raped and killed by a guest at a wedding in Chhattisgarh.
'Is it not a crime to physically harm children?' 'Piercing children with needles is a crime.'
'You must always feel the need to do something different, something new.' 'I don't think I should be content.'
A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh worker was on Tuesday attacked allegedly by Communist Party of India-Marxist men, after he was pulled out from his autorickshaw carrying school students in Kannur district.
The child, whose parents work as labourers in a factory, was beaten and brutalised with a sharp object. She is critical and on oxygen support, said a senior doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences where she is admitted.
Scarlett Keeling's mother Fiona Mackeown demanded that the people responsible for the 'murder' of her daughter be identified and prosecuted.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court sentenced Surinder Koli-- servant of businessman Moninder Singh Pandher--to death, for rape and murder of a nine-year -old girl in the sensational Nithari killings in 2006, saying he deserved a more severe punishment for his crimes.
'We may have the finest criminal laws, but of what use are they when it can ensure neither a quick, time-bound trial nor punishment?' 'The outcome, then, will be extra-judicial solutions like what the Telangana police has hit upon,' argues Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi on Tuesday termed the killing of 124 students in a school in Pakistan's Peshawar by Taliban militants as "one of the darkest days of humanity" and offered himself to the terrorists if they were ready to free the children taken hostage.
A woman was shot dead while she was resisting an alleged attempt of molestation and rape by suspected Garo National Liberation Army militants at Raja Rongat in South Garo Hills district of Meghalaya, police said on Wednesday.
A two-member fact finding committee set up by the CBSE following the murder of seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur last week said it appeared from the sequence of events that Ryan's International was guilty of gross negligence.
The Pakistan Taliban chief behind the Peshawar attack that killed 132 pupils has issued a chilling warning that more deaths will follow in another terror "spectacular" in a new video released on Tuesday.
The former RJD leader was released on bail in the Rajiv Roshan murder case after 11 years, reports M I Khan.
The two "terrorist incidents" at London Bridge and Borough Market on Saturday night are among several attacks that have taken place in the United Kingdom in recent years.
On a landmark visit to Russia to 'reset' ties between the two Cold War foes, United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought Moscow's cooperation in defeating terrorism, as he declared that neither America nor Russia has an interest in an Afghanistan or Pakistan governed by the Taliban. He expressed happiness over Russia agreeing to allow the US to send supplies to the coalition forces in Afghanistan through its territory.
The former first lady urged those who did not come out to vote in 2016 to make their vote count this time.
The Supreme Court found enough grounds to order a CBI probe into 1,528 extra-judicial killings in Manipur between 2000 and 2012.
Warm or warring, back home too Bollywood has depicted many, MANY faces of sisterly love.
A lot of what we are hearing about Indrani is coming from our desire to demonise her and deny her humanity, says Shivam Vij.
Here's a recap of the events from the past 24 hours.
On April 26, 2013, Supreme Court referred a highly sensitive issue to the law commission. India's highest judicial forum is miffed by the fact that the executive wing of Indian democracy is bulldozing their well-thought out judgments awarding death sentences to accused guilty of serious crimes including rapes and murders of children. The SC wants the law commission to examine the power of the President and the governor under Article 72 in granting mercy without offering any r
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