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Past Instances of Indian and Pakistan High Commision Officials Expelled By Their Host Countries

India October 27, 2016 at 12:43 pm 0 comments

New Delhi: Straining the troubled relationship between the two countries further, India on Thursday asked a Pakistan High Commission staffer to leave the country immediately after he was caught red handed in an espionage attempt. The spy ring was busted leading to the arrest of two Indians and a PakistaniRead More

Scrutiny in Appointments to Higher Judiciary More Stringent: Chief Justice T S Thakur

Scrutiny in Appointments to Higher Judiciary More Stringent: Chief Justice T S Thakur

India October 26, 2016 at 6:18 pm 0 comments

New Delhi: Scrutiny in appointments to the higher judiciary is much more stringent these days and it would have been “inconceivable” for a judge like late V R Krishna Iyer, who flaunted his political activism, to be elevated to the apex court, Chief Justice T S Thakur on Wednesday said.Read More

Benares Hindu University’s RSS Seminar Triggers Fight Between Faculty and VC

Benares Hindu University’s RSS Seminar Triggers Fight Between Faculty and VC

India October 26, 2016 at 6:18 pm 0 comments

New Delhi: Benares Hindu University is holding an “international seminar” on the role of ‘RSS in Nation Building’ but the central university’s vice-chancellor – who calls himself “a man of RSS” – says he will take action against the Faculty of Social Sciences for including his name as ‘chief patron’Read More

Supreme Court Asks Navjot Sidhu to Face Trial in 2009 Election Case

Supreme Court Asks Navjot Sidhu to Face Trial in 2009 Election Case

India October 26, 2016 at 6:17 pm 0 comments

New Delhi: Supreme Court on Wednesday directed cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu to face trial for seeking assistance of a government servant during the 2009 general elections while partially dropping charges of corrupt practice and submission of false return on election expenses. A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and A MRead More

Pakistan Summons Indian Envoy, Lodges Strong Protest Over ‘Unprovoked Firing’

India October 26, 2016 at 6:07 pm 0 comments

Islamabad: For the second day in a row, Pakistan on Wednesday summoned India’s Deputy High Commissioner and lodged a strong protest over alleged “unprovoked firing” by Indian forces along the Working Boundary and Line of Control. It was second day in succession that Indian envoy J P Singh was summonedRead More

Delhi-Noida Flyway Declared Toll-Free by Allahabad High Court

India October 26, 2016 at 6:05 pm 0 comments

New Delhi: In what is a relief for daily commuters, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday declared the Delhi-Noida-Direct (DND) Flyway, to be toll-free. The DND Flyway connects Delhi on the west bank of the Yamuna with Noida and East Delhi. Earlier, it had witnessed numerous protests and demonstrations demandingRead More

Porn Site Access Blocked on Free Wi-fi at Patna Railway Station

India October 26, 2016 at 6:04 pm 0 comments

Patna: Authorities at Bihar’s Patna Railway Station have blocked access to porn sites in its free Wi-Fi service at the station, officials said on Wednesday. “We have acted after it was found that free Wi-Fi service was used for opening porn sites at Patna railway station and also in viewRead More

Delhi Court Orders Filing Perjury Case Against Woman for Levelling False Charges

India October 26, 2016 at 6:04 pm 0 comments

New Delhi: A Delhi court has ordered lodging of a perjury case against a woman for levelling false rape charges against three men, observing that she had caused humiliation to the accused and made a mockery of the judicial system. The court pulled up the woman, a mother of twoRead More

Hindutva Judgement Struck a Powerful Blow at Our Secular Democracy: Katju

India October 26, 2016 at 6:03 pm 0 comments

New Delhi: The Supreme Court judgment of 1995 in Manohar Joshi vs. N.B. Patil, 1995 ( see online ) was one of the most disgraceful judgments delivered by the Indian Supreme Court, and ranks along with the MISA judgment ( ADM Jabalpur vs. Shivakant Shukla ) as a huge stainRead More

Jayalalithaa Interacting, Progressing Gradually, Says Apollo Hospitals

Jayalalithaa Interacting, Progressing Gradually, Says Apollo Hospitals

India October 23, 2016 at 4:31 pm 0 comments

Chennai: Almost a month after she was hospitalised, Apollo Hospitals on Friday for the first time said Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa “is interacting”, a key indicator of improvement in her physical condition. “The Honourable Chief Minister is interacting and progressing gradually,” Director of Medical Services, Apollo Hospitals, DrRead More