New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force (STF) has made clear its special task. Encounter killings. This has been happening for a while, though it has gained notoriety and profile in the recent past, with the killing of another gangster, Vikas Dubey. That happened in Kanpur, and yesterday another dreaded gangster, Rakesh Pandey, …
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By Inderjit Badhwar One of India’s proudest boasts, actually a truly shining statistic for Third World countries which groaned piteously under the yoke of colonialism for hundreds of years, is the number of her people she was able to pull out from the darkness of illiteracy. It still stuns me pleasantly when I note that …
New Delhi: Six MLAs, who were elected to the Rajasthan Assembly on BSP tickets, but later merged with the Congress, have approached the Supreme Court seeking a transfer to the top court a petition filed in the Rajasthan High Court. That petition sought the disqualification of these six MLAs for defiance of the BSP party whip …
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New Delhi: An application has been filed by four advocates in the Supreme Court seeking intervention in a special leave petition filed by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay against an order of the Delhi High Court that dismissed his plea to control the population explosion in India. In his plea before the apex court, Upadhyay had highlighted …
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“‘India Against Hatred’ a people’s movement against perpetration of hatred in our country, will be launched tomorrow, 9th August, on auspicious and historic day known as August Kranti Din (Aug 9, 1942). The movement will be on the lines of the ‘India Against Corruption’ movement and will be lead by, renowned filmmaker/social activist Sri. Nilesh Navalakha, …
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The Supreme Court Justice N. V. Ramana said today that these testing times have resulted in new innovations which “we have to learn and embrace for betterment of society”. Justice Ramana, who is the Executive Chairman NALSA, was speaking at the first ever online Lok Adalat in Delhi today. In the face of the unprecedented …
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued notice in a plea challenging a Ministry of Corporate Affairs notification in which the mandatory limit for engaging a company secretary was raised from Rs 5 crore to Rs 10 crore. The petition challenges this January 3 notification as being ultra-vires and repugnant to Article 14, 19(1)(g) of …
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New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court has asked the Centre and the state governments to file a reply on a petition demanding the release of Dr Kafeel Khan, jailed under NSA for allegedly making inflammatory speeches during CAA protests. A bench of Justices Manoj Mishra and Deepak Verma has passed the order on a petition …
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New Delhi: A petition has been filed before the Delhi High Court challenging the Central government’s order excluding masks and sanitisers from the essential commodities list. Petitioners Gaurav Yadav, a social activist, and advocate Aarti Singh have also challenged the levy of 18 percent GST on sanitizers. The plea has been filed through advocate Amit …
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Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, former CJI, had given a sagacious advice: have an amicable settlement in the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid case. The majority of intellectuals and even politicians, including many Muslim leaders, had welcomed the advice. There were only a few exceptions. The failure of previous endeavours need not make one sceptical of another attempt …
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