Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Pic credit: Reuters) Pro-Khalistan separatists do not represent the Sikh community in Canada, PM Justin Trudeau has said. News reports said Trudeau made the remarks, for the first time, while addressing the Indian diaspora at a Diwali event in Ottawa’s Parliament Hill last week. “There are many supporters of Khalistan…
NEW DELHI: Delhi HC on Friday ordered Tihar jail authorities to provide necessary medical treatment to separatist Yasin Malik, who is serving a life sentence in a terror case and is on a hunger strike. Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta also issued notices to Centre, Delhi govt and Tihar jail authorities on a plea seeking Malik’s…
Isro chairman and secretary, department of space S Somanath (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Isro is working to make India’s own regional navigation system (NaVIC) easily accessible to civilians soon, as the accurate positioning system was till now confined to strategic use, said Pawan Goenka, chairman of space regulator and promoter INSPACe. He said “by…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to Karnataka govt and deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar, seeking their response on a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea challenging the state govt’s decision to withdraw its consent to the agency to investigate a disproportionate assets (DA) case against him.A bench of Justices Surya Kant…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Friday said there is nothing wrong in income tax department deducting tax (TDS) from salaries paid to nuns and priests working as teachers in govt-aided Christian missionary schools even if they have taken a vow of poverty.Dismissing the appeals filed by nearly 100 dioceses and congregations from Tamil Nadu and Kerala,…
BENGALURU: Police in Congress-governed Karnataka filed Friday an FIR against Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya over a post on his social media handle that claimed a farmer had died by suicide after Waqf Board allegedly confiscated his property. The post, based on a media report, sparked controversy and led to an investigation.The case came a…
NEW DELHI: The Kanchanjunga Express-freight train accident in Bengal in June was “avoidable” had officials of departments concerned followed rules and guidelines, the final report of Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) concluded. It held Rangapani station staff, chief loco inspector and loco inspector of New Jalpaiguri, and traffic inspector dealing with rules at Northeast frontier…
GUWAHATI: A 31-year-old tribal mother of three was allegedly raped and burned to death in her village home in Manipur’s Jiribam district late Thursday by armed intruders who terrorised the settlement with indiscriminate gunfire, looting and arson that left 17 dwellings gutted.An FIR based on a complaint filed by the victim’s husband with Jiribam police…
Outgoing Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: CJI Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud‘s quarter-century-long judicial career, marked by pathbreaking judgments and judicial reforms, ended on Friday with effusive praises sprinkled with superlatives from eminent to little-known lawyers during his farewell ceremony in the largest courtroom of Supreme Court that unprecedentedly…
NEW DELHI: Three judges on the seven-judge bench penned powerful dissents to the CJI D Y Chandrachud-authored majority opinion on behalf of four judges and were unanimous that the 1967 Azeez Basha judgment had correctly decided that Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was not a minority educational institution.Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and Satish C Sharma…
