NEW DELHI: Admitting that “injustice has been inflicted” by all courts, including itself, in rejecting the juvenility plea of a death convict who had to spent 25 years in jail, Supreme Court on Wednesday directed his release from prison forthwith by holding that he was just 14 years old at the time of committing the…
NEW DELHI: On the heels of a senior Supreme Court judge’s proposal to pause for some years the selection of sitting or former judges’ lawyer children for appointment as high court judges, another senior SC collegium member has proposed that such candidates must meet a higher benchmark to be in the zone of consideration.After the…
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar with election commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu during a press conference at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday said examining the validity of the 2023 law, which altered the SC-prescribed composition of the panel for selection of chief election commissioner (CEC) and ECs,…
Union defence minister Rajnath Singh with Maldives defence minister Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan, Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi and others upon Maumoon’s arrival, in New Delhi. (PTI) NEW DELHI: The Maldives on Wednesday assured India that it will not undermine its larger neighbour’s security…
Poilievre has often been seen as Canada’s MAGA-lite figurehead. Yet even he balked at Trump’s musings about annexing Canada. President-elect Donald Trump’s vision of Canada becoming the 51st state has sparked ridicule from an unlikely critic: Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party and a rising star of MAGA-style politics north of the border.In…
NEW DELHI: In a big boost to connectivity in Kashmir, PM Narendra Modi is likely to inaugurate the 6.5-km Z-Morh road tunnel between Gagangir and Sonmarg in the Valley on Lohri (January 13) to make Sonamarg an all-weather tourist destination. The Indian Railways on Wednesday also successfully operated a train at 110 kmph on USBRL’s…
Foreign secretary Vikram Misri meets acting Afghan FM. (ANI) In another sign of India’s deepening ties with the Taliban, foreign secretary Vikram Misri met Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai, conveying India’s readiness to respond to the urgent development needs of the Afghan people and getting an assurance that the Taliban would…
Elon Musk has made ‘mystery gifts’. According to a recent regulatory filing, Tesla CEO Elon Musk donated 268,000 shares of Tesla stock valued at nearly $112 million. The Securities and Exchange (SEC) filing dated December 30 says that the donation is to charity and that the transaction is part of Musk’s year-end tax planning. The…
NEW DELHI: At least four people were killed in a stampede that broke out late Wednesday evening in Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati temple. The stampede broke out near Vaikuntha Dwara Darshan ticketing center during the distribution of tokens. Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu expressed his deep shock over the death of the devotees in the stampede,…
Dhanashree Verma and Yuzvendra Chahal file photo NEW DELHI: Amid rumours of everything not being well between India cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal and social media influencer wife Dhanashree Verma, the latter on Wednesday hit out at ‘faceless’ trolls for spreading fake news.In a social media post, a fuming Dhanashree said that the murmur and false news…
