Rajya Sabha elections in Bihar, Odisha, and Haryana were marred by allegations of cross-voting and 'horse trading', leading to suspensions and warnings from the Congress party.
A 20-year-old BTech student in Barabanki allegedly committed suicide, accusing his girlfriend and her family of blackmail and extortion in a video shared on social media. The family claims the girl's family had previously filed a harassment complaint and extorted money from them.
A lawyer representing the Hindu side in the ongoing dispute over the Sambhal Jama Masjid has defended the second survey of the mosque, claiming it was conducted on the orders of the advocate commissioner. He also dismissed claims that the survey was conducted in haste or without court orders.
The BJP won 74 seats in the 147-member Odisha assembly and was leading in four more seats, the Election Commission of India.
Five people, including employees of a co-working space provider, were arrested on Saturday for alleged negligence that led to a lift crash which resulted in injuries to nine staffers of an IT firm, police said.
Justice Lahoti was appointed as the 35th chief justice of India on June 1, 2004. He retired on November 1, 2005.
So who cost the SP more seats in UP? Hemantkumar Shivsaran does a deep dive to find out.
A Patna court on Wednesday sentenced Janata Dal-United member of the Legislative Assembly Narendra alias Sunil Pandey and four others to life imprisonment in the sensational kidnapping of neurosurgeon Ramesh Chandra, official sources said.
Ramesh Chandra, a retired design engineer who has been in the US since 1980, is in New Delhi to attend the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas. His main interest in coming to India has been to point out this flaw, which he says is evident at several important places.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed a full-fledged probe into the collusion of Tihar jail officials with Unitech's imprisoned ex-promoters Sanjay and Ajay Chandra, based on Delhi police commissioner Rakesh Asthana's report filed in a sealed cover.
The ministry informed the tribunal that former head of ILFS Financial Services Ramesh Chandra Bawa withdrew/transferred Rs 1 crore and Rs 14 lakh from Axis Bank accounts in two instances which are in violation of the December 3, 2018 order of the tribunal which had frozen these accounts.
Unitech, a New Delhi-based real estate developer, has said various bills related to land and real estate sector may impact the sector's growth if various stakeholders' interests are not taken care of.
Delhi police on Friday filed a charge sheet in a city court against six Delhi University professors in the 2010 Mayapuri radiation case for endangering lives by auctioning an radioactive gamma irradiator without following mandatory precautions.
A charge sheet has been filed in a local court in neighbouring Pilibhit district against Bharatiya Janata Party MP Varun Gandhi and 12 others in connection with a 2009 case of alleged attack on a police team.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High court rejected an appeal for an out-of-court-settlement of the Ayodhya. The Nirmohi Akhada had sought a 10 day period to attempt to reach an out-of-court settlement. The court rejected the Akhada's plea and also fined petitioner Ramesh Chandra Tripathi Rs 10 lakh. The court declared that the judgement on the Ayodhya title suit would be pronounced on September 24, as was originally declared.
The implementation of the NEP and four-year undergraduate programme were approved by the Standing Committee on Academic Matters and the Academic Council last week.
Unitech founder and chairman Ramesh Chandra gets into office at 9.30 am every weekday and leaves at 4 pm sharp. That has been the work schedule for Chandra, 70, over several years, perhaps decades.
Ramesh Chandra Tripathi, the petitioner who had made a last ditch attempt to settle the Ayodhya dispute out-of-court, welcomed the judgment of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court.
While seeking a deferment for a period of three months to enable both sides to explore possibilities of a negotiated settlement, the party also proposes to seek extension of three months for the high court judge Justice Dharam Veer Sharma, whose retirement on October 1 would otherwise necessitate the constitution of a fresh bench to hear the case.
Prashanth Chandra, advocate for Ramesh Chandra Tripathi, the person who filed the intervening application seeking an out-of-court-settlement in the Ayodhya title suit says that the last hope now is the apex court, and this is not an issue just between the two litigating parties, but a national issue.
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed that former Unitech promoters Sanjay Chandra and Ajay Chandra be shifted from Tihar Jail in Delhi to Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail and Taloja prison in Maharashtra after the ED said they were conducting business from the premises in connivance with the staff.
"We need more people who do not have a direct interest in the Ayodhya title suit coming up to fight the case out in the Supreme Court to clear the misconception that my client has been set up by someone to defer the verdict," Prashanth Chandra, senior counsel, who represented Ramesh Chandra Tripathi at the High Court and the Supreme Court, told rediff.com.
The plea by Ramesh Chandra Tripathi for an out-of-court settlement in the Ayodhya case was mentioned in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, and the counsel for applicant, Prashanth Chandra, was told to approach the court registrar who will assign the matter to the appropriate bench.A bench of Justices Altmas Kabir and A K Patanik told the applicant that they could not hear the matter since it was a civil suit.
The Supreme Court will now take the final call on the question of postponing the long awaited verdict beyond its scheduled date of September 24. Seventy-three year old Ramesh Chandra Tripathi, who was one of the parties to the 59year old court battle, is all set to move the apex court on Tuesday against Friday's order by the two judges of the three-judge special bench of Allahabad High Court.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court may have rejected Ramesh Chandra Tripathi's plea for postponing the Ayodhya verdict and to explore possibilities of an out-of-court amicable settlement, but the 73-year-old man has still not lost hope and he is air-dashing to New Delhi, renewing his appeal before the highest court of the land.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Friday has refused to defer its verdict on the title suit of the disputed site at Ayodhya.
As many as 93 information technology companies have created 7448 jobs in the state in the past five years.
The tribunal passed the order on a plea by four MCD employees, who sought its direction to the municipal body to release their salary for the period between 2006, when they were relieved from their services and 2008, when they were terminated.
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In another bid to mobilise funds for the cash-strapped realty major Unitech, promoter Ramesh Chandra and his family are in talks with leading Indian and global steel giants to sell their 25 per cent stake in Bhubaneswar-headquartered Orissa Sponge Iron & Steel Ltd.Investment banks said the Chandras, who bought the stake sometime in 2006 and 2007, are in talks with Korean steel giant Posco and Delhi-based Bhushan Steel, which owns 6 per cent in the firm.
The challenge has been thrown by Mahesh Prasad Agarwal, brother of the late Dwarka Prasad Agarwal, who claims he owns 30 per cent in Dwarka Prasad Agarwal & Brothers, the company that holds the Dainik Bhaskar title. His son, Sanjay, says, "If D B Corp does not fully own the Dainik Bhaskar title, how can it use the brand name to raise money?" However, D B Corp executives claimed there was no dispute over the title as it had been settled by the Supreme Court order of July 2003.
Railways is finding meaningful ways to engage ragpickers across the country. They are being pressed into service to clean the tracks at stations and become daily wagers.
Rider Padam from Nepal overcame the tough terrain and 70 fellow challengers to win the fourth edition of the Hercules MTB Himachal mountain biking race on Monday.
India's booming real estate sector has more than doubled the number of billionaires from this space in just 12 months, with DLF's Kushal Pal Singh emerging "the world's richest real estate developer." Among 54 Indian billionaires identified by Forbes magazine, there are seven real estate developers with a net worth of over a billion dollar each.
All textile items, currently exempted from value added tax, will attract 4 per cent VAT from the next fiscal, the empowered committee said on Thursday.
Empowered committee of state finance ministers on value-added tax has sought to allay fears of traders that the new tax system will lead to increase in prices, stating that the worldwide experience did not support this apprehension.
Justice Lahoti, 63, who succeeds Justice S Rajendra Babu, has a tenure of nearly 18 months.
The Centre is planning to establish a Taxation Information Exchange System to track inter-state trade of all commodities after the phase-out of Central Sales Tax.
The empowered committee on value added tax will meet on Saturday to take up the issues arising after three months of implementation of the new tax system by 21 states, including compensation formula for any losses incurred by states due to VAT.
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