NEW DELHI: Delhi HC Tuesday directed Centre to clarify if sodomy and non-consensual unnatural sex remain offences under BNS, which came into force on July 1, 2024, replacing IPC.“Where is that provision? There is no provision at all. It is not there. There has to be something. The question is if an offence is not…
MUMBAI: Auto driver Ganesh Yadav (36) died after an SUV ran over him while his friend Bablu Shrivastav (36), a courier delivery boy, escaped with bruises to his face and left hand, while they were sleeping on Versova beach early on Monday. Police have arrested the SUV driver, Nikhil Jawade (34), from Nagpur and his…
NEW DELHI: Politicians, imprisoned for alleged crimes, are typically greeted by unruly celebrations by their supporters when they get bail, leading to inconvenience to the public. In what could be a cautionary tale for them, SC Tuesday took a serious view of the practice and threatened to cancel the bail it had granted to an…
KOLKATA: Academics and intellectuals in Kolkata condemned Tuesday a call by All India Minority Federation for the removal of Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s bust from the 114-year-old Baker Hostel in the city.Baker Hostel, where Mujibur Rahman stayed between 1942 and 1947 as a student of Maulana Azad College (earlier Islamia College), houses…
NEW DELHI: In an important ruling, Supreme Court Tuesday held that the conventional idea ‘bail is the rule, jail is an exception’ should be applicable not only to IPC offences but also to others for which special statutes like Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act have been enacted if the conditions prescribed under that law are fulfilled.While…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission will hold consultations with the Union home secretary Wednesday to assess the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of scheduling assembly polls in the Union Territory, besides discussing the possible challenges and concerns as well as availability of security forces.Some key concerns likely to come up during the deliberations…
JAMMU: A gunfight between security forces and terrorists was reported Tuesday evening in Assar of J&K’s Doda district, signalling the spread of terrorism to previously unaffected areas in the Jammu region.Assar, located about 91km from Doda town via NH244 and 40km from Patnitop in Udhampur district, has remained untouched by terrorist violence this summer.The Army’s…
JAMMU: Ahead of Independence Day, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) Lt Gen MV Suchindra Kumar visited forward locations of Counter Insurgency Force (Delta) in J&K’s Doda and Kishtwar districts Tuesday and exhorted officers of all ranks to maintain the tempo of anti-terror operations to ensure security of ongoing and upcoming national events in the region.In light…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury hit out at the Mamata government just as the political tussle over the Kolkata doctor rape-murder case went up a notch on Tuesday. The former Berhampore MP, while condemning the incident, accused the state government of being in a fix and wanting to help the preparator behind the…
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over the investigation on Tuesday into the rape and murder of a woman doctor at a state-run medical college in Kolkata, as per officials. The agency promptly completed all necessary formalities within hours of the Calcutta High Court‘s order instructing the state police to transfer…
