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…
NEW DELHI: Madhya Pradesh experienced extreme weather events on 176 days, the most in the country, while Kerala recorded the highest number of weather-related fatalities at 550, followed by Madhya Pradesh (353) and Assam (256) this year, as per Centre for Science and Environment’s annual ‘State of extreme weather report’ released on Friday.The report shows…
Union home minister Amit Shah during the ‘3rd Anti-terror Conference’ hosted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), in New Delhi (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Central and state law agencies engaged in the fight against terror on Friday agreed on the need to shift towards firmer and more collaborative efforts, backed by a standardised strategy,…
This is a representational image (Pic credit: AP) NEW DELHI: Over 10.8 lakh traditional artisans and craftspeople have been upskilled under govt’s flagship scheme PM Vishwakarma since its launch in Sept last year, with the top five trades being tailoring, masonry, carpentry, naai (barber) and malakaar (garland maker), report Ambika Pandit and Manash Pratim Gohain….
