Top Court : Implement directives to stop mob lynching
NEW DELHI : State governments of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh on Friday sought to assure the Supreme Court that it has and is coming down with a heavy hand on incidents of mob lynching. The country’s top court had previously asked the state governments to respond to unfortunate incidents of mob lynching, stating that ‘horrendous acts of More...
PM Modi for adopting modern technology for speedy conviction of rapists
GANDHINAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked forensic experts on Thursday to adopt modern techniques like DNA profiling in rape cases to ensure speedy justice. He said the central government had approved the More...
Top Court scraps NOTA option for Rajya Sabha polls
NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court on Tuesday scrapped the use of ‘None Of The Above’ (NOTA) option in the coming Rajya Sabha elections. A Bench, led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra held that the NOTA More...
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh Lashes Out At Navjot Sidhu for hugging Pak army chief
CHANDIGRAH : Punjab cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sindhu, who has courted a lot of controversies for various antics in the past, has now become a target of Punjab’s chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh. On Sunday, More...
Special envoys of neighboring countries to attend Vajpayee’s funeral
NEW DELHI : India’s neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka are sending their special representatives to attend the funeral of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who passed More...
Monsoon Session of Parliament, it was most productive since 2000
NEW DELHI : The Monsoon Session of Parliament, which ended today, was the “most productive” for Lok Sabha since 2000. PRS Legislative Research has said. According to the data compiled by PRS Legislative More...
Supreme Court To Take Up Hapur Lynching On Petition Over NDTV Expose
NEW DELHI : After an NDTV investigation in which men accused of lynching are caught on hidden camera bragging about the killings, the Supreme Court today agreed to urgently take up the mob-attack in which one man More...
Justice KM Joseph among three sworn in as SC judges
NEW DELHI : Justice Indira Banerjee, Justice Vineet Saran and Justice KM Joseph sworn in as judges of the Supreme Court on Tuesday in order of seniority notified by the Centre. The swearing-in ceremony started at More...
Maharashtra bus accident: Death toll rises to 33
RAIGAD (Maharashtra): 33 people were killed on Saturday after a bus carrying staff of an agriculture university slipped off the road into a deep gorge in Raigad district of Maharashtra. The private bus, on its More...
Cow vigilantism unacceptable , states to prevent lynchings: SC
NEW DELHI :Taking a strong exception to the alleged lynchings by cow vigilantes, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said the onus lies on states to ensure that such incidents do not occur. “This kind of incidents cannot More...