NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has laid down guidelines for constitutional courts to scrutinise the proportionality of punishment awarded to an errant member by a legislature, thus permitting judicial scrutiny of the penalty, breaking through a self-imposed restraint to extend its jurisdiction to a matter that has traditionally been considered the domain of legislatures.This verdict by…
NEW DELHI: Opposing the plea that the six-year disqualification for convicted persons from contesting polls be turned into a lifelong ban, Centre has told Supreme Court that the present law was constitutionally sound and it should be left to Parliament to decide on amending the law and the judiciary should refrain from passing direction.In an…
Elon Musk addressed concerns over last week’s controversial federal worker productivity email, insisting the directive was not a performance review but a basic check for signs of life.“I think that email was perhaps interpreted as a performance review, but actually it was a pulse check review. Do you have a pulse?” Musk said during a…
BENGALURU: The Karnataka Lokayukta SIT has submitted a renewed request to governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot seeking permission to prosecute Union minister HD Kumaraswamy in the 2007 Sandur illegal mining case. Kumaraswamy was Karnataka CM at the time.The submission, made on Feb 21, includes an English translation of all case documents and addresses Raj Bhavan’s previous…
NAGPUR: The Nagpur bench of Bombay HC last week upheld the rape conviction of a man for sexually assaulting a minor under pretext of marriage. The court ruled a false promise amounts to “misconception of fact” that invalidates a girl’s consent, reports Vaibhav Ganjapure.Justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke rejected the accused’s argument the girl had willingly engaged…
NEW DELHI: In an order that is likely to have wider ramifications, J&K and Ladakh high court has said that if a highway is in bad shape “due to different nature of construction activities”, NHAI or its concessionaire cannot collect toll tax from commuters.Hearing a PIL on the Pathankot-Udhampur stretch of NH-44, a bench of…
PUNE: A 26-year-old preoperative counsellor with a Pune hospital was allegedly raped inside a parked bus at the city’s Swargate terminus around 5.30am Tuesday. The accused is a criminal with past cases of theft and robbery. Police teams are combing through CCTV footage and local networks to track the fugitive suspect.The crime occurred at one…
In a seismic shift at The Washington Post, owner Jeff Bezos has ripped up the traditional opinion playbook, declaring that the paper’s editorial pages will now serve as a megaphone for two conservative cornerstones: free markets and personal liberties. The announcement, made in an email to staff on Wednesday, sent immediate shockwaves through the newsroom—and…
PRAYAGRAJ: Four Kumbh pilgrims – two each from Bihar and Jharkhand – died, and five others were injured after their speeding SUV crashed into a house on Pratapgarh-Ayodhya highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district en route to Ayodhya from Prayagraj on Tuesday night.The latest casualties took the death toll in accidents involving devotees heading to…
COIMBATORE: Home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday praised the contribution of Tamil Nadu to the evolution of Indian spiritualism, and said no account of India’s spiritual history was complete without referencing the rich Tamil culture.“Tamil Nadu is a land enriched with countless living examples of spirituality and has carried forward an unbroken legacy of wisdom…
