KOCHI/KASARAGOD: A CBI court on Friday sentenced 10 accused to life imprisonment and four others, including former CPM MLA from Uduma KV Kunhiraman, to five years in jail for the murder of two Youth Congress workers at Periya in Kerala’s Kasaragod in February 2019. The court had found them guilty on Saturday.The 10 accused were…
NEW DELHI: Counting infrastructure development and enhancement of tourism facilities in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep among the key priorities of Modi govt, home minister Amit Shah on Friday emphasised upon achieving 100% renewable energy generation in the two island groups through installation of solar panels and windmills.While reviewing the progress of development projects…
NEW DELHI: Indicating the start of train operations between Jammu and Srinagar in the next couple of weeks, the railways has notified the timetable of one Vande Bharat and another two mail/express trains for the route. The single-trip Vande Bharat train on the route will take three hours and 10 minutes, while the other two…
NEW DELHI: The UAPA Tribunal of Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta, a sitting judge of Delhi HC, Friday confirmed Centre’s July 8 notification declaring terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun-led Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) as an unlawful organisation for a period of five years.SFJ was declared an unlawful organisation in 2019, when there were 11 FIRs registered against…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court said all laws applicable in a state would also be valid in a new state carved out of it unless the law is altered or amended by the new state.A bench of Justice C T Ravikumar and Rajesh Bindal also said that state govt permission was not needed for Central Bureau…
NEW DELHI: Emphasising need to protect interests of senior citizens, many of whom are ignored by their children and left to fend for themselves once they hand over property by executing a gift deed, Supreme Court held that such deeds signed by parents could be quashed under Maintenance and Welfare of the Parents and Senior…
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand HC has dismissed a petition filed by Welham Boys’ School in Dehradun challenging a govt order prohibiting residential schools from charging fees other than tuition fees during Covid-19 pandemic when classes were conducted online. The petition, pending for over 3 years, sought to quash the 2021 order, arguing “govt has no authority to…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday wanted to know from the Centre, University Grants Commission and National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) the steps taken to prevent death by suicide of students, many belonging to SC and ST community, due to discrimination in universities and higher educational institutions (HEIs).Arguing for PIL petitioners Abeda Salim…
RAIPUR: A well-known Bastar journalist, Mukesh Chandrakar, 33, who went missing on New Year’s Day, was found murdered and dumped in a septic tank on the premises of a road contractor in insurgency-hit Bijapur district on Friday.Journalists have called a total shutdown in Bijapur to protest against the murder.Mukesh, who worked as a contributor to…
JAMMU: Advocate Kanav Sharma, president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha’s Jammu wing and son of senior BJP member Chander Mohan Sharma, was injured after being shot by an electricity department employee following a parking feud in Roop Nagar area Friday, police said.“Around 2.15pm, a scuffle broke out between Sharma, a resident of Roop Nagar’s New…
