KOLKATA: Calling it a “rarest of rare case”, a fasttrack court in Chinsurah in West Bengal on Thursday sentenced seven persons to death in a 2020 murder case, report Dwaipayan Ghosh & Falguni Banerjee. On Oct 11 that year, the criminals killed 23-year-old Bishnu Mal and dismembered his body into six pieces, following animosity created…
Devices like camera traps have curtailed traditional practices, the study said DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand’s forest department has initiated an investigation after a study by researchers from University of Cambridge claimed that “digital technologies such as camera traps and drones, deployed for tracking wild animals at Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR), are infringing on the privacy and rights…
Collegium recommends elevation of Delhi HC CJ Manmohan as judge to SC (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court collegium led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna on Thursday unanimously recommended to the Union govt to appoint Delhi HC chief justice Manmohan as an SC judge. SC, with a sanctioned strength of 34 judges, including the…
RAIPUR: MBBS students at AIIMS-Raipur have alleged that they were ragged through the night on Nov 16, causing a few girls to fall unconscious after being forced to stand till 3am.A group of students have written anonymously to Supreme Court lawyer Meera Patel, who is the convenor and legal head of ‘Society Against Violence in…
Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik (File photo) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear Central Bureau of Investigation’s plea to transfer the trial in two cases pending against terror convict Yasin Malik from Jammu to Delhi and issued notice to him and other accused in the case.A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court flagged the colonial mindset among bureaucrats who habitually attempt to boss over elected representatives, especially women, in grassroots democratic institutions and said they must instead encourage women’s participation and leadership in governance.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan noted with concern that this was a recurring pattern of treatment…
The Supreme Court (File photo) NEW DELHI: Warning the director general of UP Police to rein in his forces from routinely converting civil disputes into criminal cases to harass civilians, Supreme Court on Thursday said if the practice did not cease, it would pass orders that the DGP would “remember his whole life”.A bench of…
Night temperatures dropped further throughout Kashmir on Friday as Srinagar recorded its coldest night of this season so far at minus 1.2 degrees Celsius. SRINAGAR: Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, and many other parts of Kashmir recorded the season’s coldest night so far, reeling under sub-zero night temperatures.According to the officials, the…
NEW DELHI: Highway commuters have shelled out around Rs 2.1 lakh crore as user fee since the govt started tolling on NHs in 2000. This is a small part of the spend on building a nationwide network of highways and expressways undertaken by the Centre with the allocation for the current fiscal year itself estimated…
NEW DELHI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar announced plans to contest the upcoming Delhi assembly elections in a bid to reclaim the party’s national status after a resounding victory in the Maharashtra assembly elections. He declared his intent to contest Delhi assembly polls during a felicitation ceremony at the NCP office in Delhi…
