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NEW DELHI: After half a century and several rounds of litigation, Supreme Court approved on Wednesday an April 30, 1974, decision of the collector of Dadra and Nagar Haveli to rescind the erstwhile Portuguese govt’s grant of possession rights over land to Indians for cultivation.What rankled a bench of Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday ticked off the Union govt for opposing consideration of the plea of condemned prisoner Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted of killing then Punjab CM Beant Singh in 1995, for commutation of death sentence. Rajoana has petitioned for reprieve on the ground that he has been on death row for nearly…
NEW DELHI: The Rouse Avenue Court is set to pronounce the order on framing charges in the IRCTC hotel corruption case on October 13. The court has directed all accused, including RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi, son Tejaswi Yadav, former minister Prem Chand Gupta and others, to appear in person on…
Donald Trump assassination plotter tries to stab himself in court (Picture credit: AP) Ryan Routh, the man found guilty of plotting to assassinate Donald Trump, attempted to stab himself in the neck with a pen moments after a Florida jury convicted him on all counts. The dramatic incident unfolded in Judge Aileen Cannon’s courtroom on…
NEW DELHI: A Supreme Court bench of Justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan and N K Singh allowed CBI on Tuesday to register FIRs in six instances of builder-bank nexus allegedly exploiting subvention schemes in the housing sector to harass and fleece thousands of homebuyers while denying them their flats for decades. The order came after…
SRINAGAR: Justice Sanjeev Kumar, the senior-most judge of the high court of J&K and Ladakh, presided over a division bench’s proceedings from the remote and picturesque Gurez Valley near the Line of Control in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Tuesday, a historic first in the judicial history of J&K, according to the HC.“Justice Sanjeev Kumar…
SEATTLE: A trial in federal court in Seattle set to begin this week will cut to the heart of how Amazon defines itself as a champion for the hundreds of millions of consumers who use its online shopping service.The Federal Trade Commission claims, in a lawsuit filed two years ago, that Amazon tricked tens of…
(Picture Courtesy: Facebook) Malayalam actor Unni Mukundan has been summoned by the Kakkanad Magistrate’s Court in connection with an assault case filed by his former manager, Vipin Kumar.As reported by Manorama Online, the court has directed the ‘Maa Vande’ actor to appear in person on September 27. The case dates back to May this year…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court sought on Monday responses from DGCA, Aircraft Accidents Investigation Bureau and the Centre on steps taken to conduct an independent, impartial and expeditious probe into the crash of Air India’s June 12 London-bound flight.The court told PIL petitioner NGO ‘Safety Matters Foundation’ that its demand to make public details of the…
Former JNU student and activist Umar Khalid was taken into custody by police at Red Fort in New Delhi (2020) (Image Credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices on the bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Meeran Haider, Gulfisha Fatima, and Shifa Ur Rehman in connection with the larger conspiracy…
