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JAIPUR: Princely states are long gone, but the ‘Maharaj’ has lingered. Now, Rajasthan high court has drawn a line.Justice Mahendra Kumar Goyal directed descendants of the former Jaipur royal family to drop the prefixes “Maharaj” and “Princess” from their ongoing petitions or see their 24-year-old case dismissed. The court set Oct 13 as the final…
KARUR: Tamil Nadu police charged the driver of actor-politician Vijay’s bus with negligent driving, a day after Madras high court questioned why no FIR was filed over two alleged hit-and-run accidents involving the convoy of the TVK chief’s campaign during the September 27 Karur stampede that killed 41 people.Inspector RS Om Prakash said a case…
32-year-old criminal smokes and drinks during hearing, held NEW DELHI: A 32-year-old history-sheeter, Mohammad Imran-who disrupted virtual hearings of the Tis Hazari Court by appearing on screen in his undergarments while smoking and drinking-has been arrested from Old Mustafabad by North District police. A case was registered after a complaint was filed by a court…
NEW DELHI: After resisting for years the release of the answer key immediately after the preliminary examination, UPSC has given in to students’ demands and told Supreme Court it will publish a provisional answer key after the exam “to enhance transparency in its functioning”, and will entertain objections of candidates on discrepancies in the exam…
BAREILLY: The Allahabad high court (HC), while granting bail to a Meerut man accused of sharing a “Pakistan zindabad” post on social media, observed that “simply posting support for another country won’t attract the offence of endangering sovereignty of India under BNS”.“Merely forwarding a message to show support of any country may create anger or…
MUMBAI: Bombay high court has directed the state to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation to a Karnataka-based businessman after declaring his arrest illegal. The HC also censured Mumbai police for “gross abuse of law” and directed a departmental enquiry into the arrest, with recovery of the compensation amount from the salary of the person or…
MUMBAI: Bombay HC dismissed Satara additional sessions judge Dhananjay Nikam, and Palghar civil judge (senior division) Irfan Shaikh for serious misconduct.Shaikh, during his stint as additional chief metropolitan magistrate at Ballard Pier court, was involved in a road accident in 2022. Shaikh told TOI over phone that the allegations were baseless. “I will challenge my…
OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit from Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, which claims that the company lured away its employees to steal trade secrets. OpenAI called the case part of Musk’s “ongoing harassment” and denied all allegations as “false and unsubstantiated.”In its court filing, OpenAI said, “Under Musk’s leadership, talented…
NEW DELHI: Gitanjali Angmo, wife of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, moved the Supreme Court on Friday seeking his release.This comes two days after she reached out to President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday to seek her intervention for the release of the climate activist, who has been lodged in Jodhpur jail in Rajasthan since being taken…
Mumbai: After Bombay high court on Wednesday expressed its disinclination to permit Anand Teltumbde to travel to Amsterdam and the UK to deliver academic lectures, saying he could give them virtually, the 2018 Elgar Parishad Maoist-links case accused withdrew his plea.A division bench of Justices Ajay Gadkari and Ranjitsinha Bhonsale then granted Teltumbde liberty to…
