NEW DELHI: After 78 years, the nerve centre of the central govt on Friday moved from South Block to Seva Teerth, the new sand stone structure now housing the PMO, following a cabinet meeting in the British-era building where proposals worth over Rs 1.5 lakh crore were taken up.The proposals included construction of an underwater…
NEW DELHI: Leader of the opposition in RS, Mallikarjun Kharge, on Friday raised the issue of portions of his speech during the debate on motion of thanks to the President’s address being expunged, and demanded that they be restored.Raising the matter soon after Zero Hour, Kharge said the expunged portion did not contain anything “defamatory…
NEW DELHI : Taking a hardline stance for improving public faith in the integrity of justice delivery in trial courts, Supreme Court Friday said a district judge’s “spoken reputation” is an important factor for a high court in deciding to give him extension or retire him compulsorily.A Gujarat additional district judge was compulsorily retired in…
NEW DELHI: The ED has attached several hotels, resorts and land worth over Rs 200 crore in Andaman and Nicobar in a money laundering case, probing allegations of misappropriation of over Rs 500 crore in Andaman & Nicobar State Cooperative Bank.Former Congress MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma, who was arrested earlier and whose bail plea was…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday told music composer A R Rahman to show respect to and acknowledge Junior Dagar Bandhu’s contributions to the Dhrupad tradition of Indian classical music. Their heir has accu-sed Rahman of copyright infringement.Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar filed a suit seeking to bar Rahman from using ‘Shiva Stuti’, which he clai-med…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday frowned on Himachal Pradesh HC’s repeated interference in the state govt’s decisions and said it appeared that the high court was not allowing the elected govt to function. SC warned that it would view such interference seriously in future.Despite these oral remarks, a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Friday appointed ex-IPS officer N K Mishra and ex-IRS officer Pratap Singh as special observers for West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, respectively, tasked with overseeing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral roll as well as the preparedness and conduct of impending assembly poll in the two states.Polls…
NEW DELHI: India has the volume to support food security of many other countries, but the full potential of the food processing sector has not been tapped yet, food processing minister Chirag Paswan said on Friday, while emphasising the need to take this sector deeper into the rural India.Paswan said that in the food processing…
NEW DELHI: Can a married man in a live-in relationship be prosecuted for dowry harassment on the complaint of a woman with whom he was in an extra-marital affair, even though the law specifies that only a wife can make such a complaint against her husband and his relatives?A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay…
NEW DELHI: India is in a “superb position” in a highly fragmented geopolitical world, as the fastest-growing economy with the scale, stability and technological ambition to help shape the next global order, Martin Sorrell, chairman of S4 Capital said on Friday.“So, India is in the box seat for two reasons. In that fragmented world, picking…