NEW DELHI: Government on Tuesday told the Lok Sabha that 864.5 km of the total 4,096.7 km India-Bangladesh land border, is yet to be fenced, which includes 174.5 km of non-feasible gap, in a written reply to question by Trinamool Congress MP Deepak Adhikari.The MP from West Bengal, which shares the longest border with Bangladesh,…
AHMEDABAD: A special CBI court in Ahmedabad on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old teacher to life imprisonment “till his last breath” for raping a student and impregnating her, after eloping with her on the pretext of marriage.This is the second time the accused, Dhaval Trivedi, has been awarded life sentence. A repeat offender, he was already…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court hearing a Rs 2,435 crore bank fraud case pulled up CBI for its failure to produce the crime files, as directed earlier, saying the act of “clear-cut defiance and recalcitrance” indicated the agency wanted to keep the truth hidden under a “veil of secrecy“.“It appears that CBI has something material…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has ruled that investigating agencies are duty-bound to inform grounds of arrest to the accused while taking them into custody and failure to comply with it would render the arrest illegal. It said the requirement to inform the grounds of arrest is not a “formality but a mandatory constitutional requirement”.A bench…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Centre cannot impose service tax on sale of lotteries as the lottery business comes under the State List.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and N K Singh said service tax was not leviable on transactions between the purchaser of lottery tickets and the state govt…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha member from Baramulla, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, who is out on parole from Tihar jail to attend the budget session, on Tuesday demanded a “full investigation” into the recent death of two civilians in Jammu and Kashmir.Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Rashid, also known as Engineer Rashid, an Independent member from…
BENGALURU: Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal AP Singh has said his confidence in defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) continues to erode over its failure to fix delays in delivery and upgrades to the light combat aircraft Tejas.“You have to alleviate (our) worries and make us more confident. At the mom-ent, I am…
NEW DELHI: Fourteen candidates scored 100 percentile or 100 NTA score in the Joint Entrance Examination – Main (JEE-Main) 2025 January session, against 23 candidates in 2024 and 20 in 2023. Out of the 14 top scorers, 12 are from general category and one each from OBC and SC categories. There is also one woman…
NEW DELHI: Total 544 convicts on death row are lodged across the country’s prisons as on December 31, 2022, home ministry informed Lok Sabha Tuesday. Replying to a question by TMC MP Adhikari Deepak Dev, junior home minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar said NCRB data show maximum convicts handed capital punishment are lodged in jails of…
NEW DELHI: When PM Narendra Modi visits Marseille, the second largest city in France and home to a famous port, he will be connecting not just with the valour of Indian soldiers who fought on the side of the British in World War I but also an important episode in the life of nationalist and…
