NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday took on DMK for raising “baseless” charge of imposition of Hindi and said the governing party in Tamil Nadu was using anti-Hindi protests as a smoke screen for covering its corruption, adding that BJP will start medical and engineering courses in Tamil if it gets to…
MUMBAI: Bombay HC has refused to direct a potency test on a man eight years after his marriage, observing that advancing age would affect the test. It quashed a family court order that had allowed his wife’s plea.“…allowing medical exam after a period of eight years to ascertain whether the husband was impotent in 2017…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday said the Bar Council of India had no business to get into legal education, which should be left to jurists and academicians. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh made the remarks while dismissing a petition of Bar Council of India challenging a Kerala high…
Representative photo (AI-generated image) NEW DELHI: Noting that a woman who is employed and holds the same post as her husband and can take care of herself independently, Supreme Court has turned down her plea seeking maintenance from her estranged husband.A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan refused to grant relief to…
NEW DELHI: Reacting to the controversy triggered by alleged recovery of cash from Justice Yashwant Varma‘s residence and his subsequent transfer to Allahabad HC, senior advocate Harish Salve Friday hit out at the collegium system for appointment of judges and appealed for more transparency.Talking to news channels, Salve said the incident had put the institution…
NEW DELHI: The new appointments by AAP are aimed at bolstering the party’s presence in Delhi and Punjab, and also reflect a conscious attempt by Arvind Kejriwal to keep the flock together by giving key roles to seniors like Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain and Saurabh Bharadwaj.In a post on X, Kejriwal congratulated the party functionaries…
BJP MLAs are evicted by marshals on Friday after their suspension for ‘disrespecting the Chair’ while demanding a probe into honey-trap cases BENGALURU: Both Houses of Karnataka legislature Friday passed the controversial bill granting 4% reservation to Muslims in securing govt contracts despite opposition from BJP-JD(S). The bill was passed in the assembly soon after…
RSS hasn’t passed any resolution on a two-language or three-language system, but has adopted a resolution advocating the use of native tongues in every state, Mukunda said. BENGALURU: RSS reckons Manipur will take a long time to heal from the ravages of the ethnic conflict, but remains confident that its influence and outreach can help…
RAIPUR: Sixteen of the 30 Maoists killed in the twin encounters in Bijapur and Kanker districts of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar division on Thursday were women, Bastar range IG P Sundarraj said Friday. Police have so far identified 19 of the dead cadres, and their combined bounty has crossed Rs 1 crore. This, and the seizure of…
At least 19 daily flights from airports across India to Britain’s Heathrow airport were disrupted on Friday, leaving thousands of passengers stranded and scrambling for alternative travel options following the shutdown of Europe’s busiest travel hub after a power outage, caused by a massive fire at an electric substation.Air India on Friday said its operations…
