NEW DELHI: A Delhi court hearing a Rs 2,435 crore bank fraud case pulled up CBI for its failure to produce the crime files, as directed earlier, saying the act of “clear-cut defiance and recalcitrance” indicated the agency wanted to keep the truth hidden under a “veil of secrecy“.“It appears that CBI has something material…
NEW DELHI: Remarriage after the death of a spouse cannot be a stumbling block to claim custody of a child from the first marriage, Supreme Court has said while allowing a father to take back custody of his minor son who was taken away by in-laws after the death of his first wife.A bench of…
NEW DELHI: Any foreigner who enters India without a valid passport or visa could invite a jail term of up to five years and a fine of up to Rs 5 lakh. In case entry and stay in or exit from India by a foreigner is with a forged passport or travel document, the imprisonment…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has ruled that investigating agencies are duty-bound to inform grounds of arrest to the accused while taking them into custody and failure to comply with it would render the arrest illegal. It said the requirement to inform the grounds of arrest is not a “formality but a mandatory constitutional requirement”.A bench…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Centre cannot impose service tax on sale of lotteries as the lottery business comes under the State List.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and N K Singh said service tax was not leviable on transactions between the purchaser of lottery tickets and the state govt…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha member from Baramulla, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, who is out on parole from Tihar jail to attend the budget session, on Tuesday demanded a “full investigation” into the recent death of two civilians in Jammu and Kashmir.Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Rashid, also known as Engineer Rashid, an Independent member from…
BENGALURU: Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal AP Singh has said his confidence in defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) continues to erode over its failure to fix delays in delivery and upgrades to the light combat aircraft Tejas.“You have to alleviate (our) worries and make us more confident. At the mom-ent, I am…
NEW DELHI: Fourteen candidates scored 100 percentile or 100 NTA score in the Joint Entrance Examination – Main (JEE-Main) 2025 January session, against 23 candidates in 2024 and 20 in 2023. Out of the 14 top scorers, 12 are from general category and one each from OBC and SC categories. There is also one woman…
NEW DELHI: Total 544 convicts on death row are lodged across the country’s prisons as on December 31, 2022, home ministry informed Lok Sabha Tuesday. Replying to a question by TMC MP Adhikari Deepak Dev, junior home minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar said NCRB data show maximum convicts handed capital punishment are lodged in jails of…
As he underlined the positive potential of artificial intelligence and the unprecedented scale and speed of its development, PM Modi on Tuesday called for collective global efforts to establish governance and standards that uphold shared values, address risks, and build trust, given a deep inter-dependence across borders in the use of the technology.Addressing the AI…
