NEW DELHI: Settling a vexed issue that evoked different rulings from HCs, the Supreme Court on Monday adjudged that a person, already arrested and in custody in connection with an offence, is entitled to seek anticipatory bail if he feared that the police may arrest him in another offence.A bench of Chief Justice D Y…
GUWAHATI: A 21-year-old BTech computer science and engineering (CSE) student at IIT-Guwahati, Bimlesh Kumar from UP’s Ballia district, was found hanging in his hostel room on Monday.This is the second such incident within a month and the third this year at the institute, raising serious concerns about students’ mental health and effectiveness of the support…
KANPUR/LUCKNOW: The Shivrajpur police of Kanpur Nagar district have lodged an FIR for an alleged attempt to derail and blast the Bhiwani-bound Kalindi Express (14117). The loco-engine of the train had hit an LPG filled gas cylinder placed on the rail track between Barrajpur and Utripura on the Kanpur-Kasganj route on Sunday night. A ‘petrol…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday dismissed a PIL by former diplomats and bureaucrats and social activists, including Jean Dreze and Harsh Mander and musician T M Krishna who sought a direction to the Centre to cancel all licences for export of arms and ammunition to Israel on the ground that the country has been indicted…
SRINAGAR:Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led Hurriyat Conference reaffirmed support Monday for dialogue with the Centre, a day after defence minister Rajnath Singh told rallies in Jammu that the Centre had sent a parliamentary delegation in 2016 to initiate talks for peace in J&K but the Hurriyat leaders had “shut their doors on them”.At rallies in Ramban and…
SRINAGAR: Signs of strain have emerged in the Congress-National Conference (NC) alliance in J&K after a Congress candidate slammed the ally and a video emerged of an NC MP purportedly disagreeing with the tie-up.Vikar Rasool Wani, Congress’s nominee in Jammu’s Banihal seat, lashed out at NC Sunday, terming it “a party of killers”. “This is…
NEW DELHI: The mother of the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder victim on late Monday claimed that the family was offered money by a district official, contradicting West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee‘s denial.“The CM (Mamata Banerjee) is lying. We were indeed offered money by DC (North). We told her we will take…
NEW DELHI: Soon after Supreme Court directed the protesting junior doctors to resume work or face action, the Bengal IMA unit said it was “disheartened” by the the proceedings of the court and the CBI. In a statement, the medical body conveyed that the protests “won’t die down” and promised to leave no stone unturned…
NEW DELHI: Soon after Supreme Court directed the protesting junior doctors to resume work or face action, the Bengal IMA unit said it was “disheartened” by the the proceedings of the court and the CBI. In a statement, the medical body conveyed that the protests “won’t die down” and promised to leave no stone unturned…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday outrightly dismissed the reports suggesting that Chinese forces have entered into the Indian territory, saying mere paintings of marks in undemarcated locations doesn’t mean the areas have been encroached upon.Rijiju, who represents Arunachal West Lok Sabha constituency, also said that overlapping of patrolling by Indian and Chinese…
