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NEW DELHI: Karnataka Congress’s internal power tussle appears to be heading towards a decisive climax, with the AICC high command expected to take a final call on the leadership question as early as Saturday. Chief minister Siddaramaiah now faces a renewed challenge from deputy CM DK Shivakumar’s camp, whose supporters are camping in Delhi and…
NEW DELHI: Ten years after the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 came into force, a new study by the India Justice Report has exposed how the country’s juvenile justice system is crumbling under the same ills that plague adult courts – massive delays, crippling vacancies and shocking opacity. Children in conflict…
NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court has granted interim bail to social activist Jyoti Jagtap in the Elgar Parishad case.A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma on Wednesday granted her the relief till the next date of hearing in Feb next year, after senior advocate Aparna Bhat told the court that…
AHMEDABAD: Fifteen years of separation. A shared sentence. Now, a Gujarat HC order offered a rare pause to a couple convicted of murdering the woman’s former boyfriend in 2010 – a chance to create life, even while serving time for taking one.Jayendra Damor and Sejal Bariya have been granted extended parole to undergo in-vitro fertilisation…
Kolkata-Guangzhou IndiGo flight KOLKATA: Monica Liu lives and breathes Beijing, the ‘Tangra-style’ Chinese restaurant that is the beating heart of weekends in Kolkata’s Chinatown. But on Sunday night, Guangzhou was on her mind. For the first time in five years, she was on a direct flight from the city she calls home to the country…
MEERUT: For over three decades, Sanjay Kumar’s life was defined by a murder he didn’t commit. Too poor to hire a lawyer, the 60-year-old farmer from UP’s Bulandshahr spent 11 years in jail, awaiting justice that finally came this week — an acquittal for lack of evidence.Kumar was cleared of all charges by the court…
DEHRADUN: India’s first nationwide DNA-based census has found the country’s wild elephant population fell by about 25% in eight years, underscoring growing threats from shrinking forests and rising conflict with humans.Released on Tuesday, the report, ‘Status of Elephants in India: DNA-based Synchronous All-India Population Estimation of Elephants’ (SAIEE 2021-25), estimated 22,446 elephants across India, down…
NEW DELHI: In the middle of Dussehra festivities, India Thursday announced resumption of direct air services with China from late Oct, marking another significant step in efforts to normalise the relationship that saw PM Narendra Modi visiting Tianjin last month for the SCO summit and also having a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping.This is…
NEW DELHI: India’s forest cover increased by merely 2.5% between 2010-11 and 2021-22, but the ‘very dense forest’ component of it grew by 22.7% during the period, indicating effective regeneration and conservation efforts, claimed the central govt’s first-ever dedicated publication on forest accounting. It recorded a decline only in the ‘moderately dense forest’ category.Released on…
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…
