NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to the father of the minor who was alleged to be driving a Porsche car involved in an accident in Pune last year that left two young software engineers dead. He is accused of tampering with evidence by swapping the blood sample of his son who was…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea filed by People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) against the Karnataka high court order which had held that Kambala and bull races in Karnataka cannot be restricted to the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi. The appellant sought to challenge this.A bench of justices…
NEW DELHI: In yet another strong pitch for “one nation one law”, Supreme Court on Tuesday said Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is the most effective tool to remove the prevailing discrimination against women in marriage, succession, inheritance and property rights under Muslim personal law and other customary laws.This statement – “most effective answer is UCC”…
LONDON: Gangs of suspected Somalian men have allegedly been terrorising Indian-origin shopkeepers and restaurant owners in Wembley and trashing their shops in targeted attacks of late. This follows the attack in Harlow last week, wherein a gang attacked Holi revellers. Wembley shopkeepers felt it could be the same group.Bob Blackman MP raised the Harrow attack…
SRINAGAR: The J&K govt dismissed from service Tuesday three temporary workers of the Jal Shakti department, citing FIRs registered against them at different police stations for their alleged involvement in “anti-national activities”.Liyaqat Ali Bhagwan, Kousar Hussain Bhagwan and Showkat Ahmad Zargar’s dismissal on the financial commissioner’s recommendation marks a departure from CM Omar Abdullah’s criticism…
SRINAGAR: Days after the Leh Apex Body (LAB) announced a rally alleging delays in talks with the Centre and accusing the judicial commission probing the Leh police firing of not submitting its report, the commission Tuesday said the inquiry was being conducted in a fair and transparent manner.Four protesters demanding statehood and Sixth Schedule status…
JAMMU: Alert Army personnel foiled an infiltration attempt along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jhangar, in Rajouri’s Nowshera, and shot dead one Pakistani terrorist on Tuesday.Acting on intelligence inputs, soldiers detected the movement of two terrorists along the LoC around 3pm, the Army’s White Knights Corps stated in an X post. “Responding with swift…
JAMMU: A day after an Army jawan went missing during a river-crossing training exercise in Sunderbani sector in J&K’s Rajouri district, his body was fished out from a river on Tuesday.A joint search party of the Army, National Disaster Response Force, and local rescuers recovered the body of Sepoy Akshit Sharma, aged around 25 years,…
NEW DELHI: The ruling NDA on Tuesday strongly defended Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla during a debate on a resolution seeking his removal, while opposition parties accused him of acting under government pressure and failing to conduct House proceedings impartially.The debate began after opposition members moved a resolution to remove Birla as Speaker, alleging bias…
Army columns were deployed in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district after two people were killed when security forces opened fire to disperse violent mobs amid tensions linked to the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) election nomination process, officials said on Tuesday.The incident occurred in the Chibinang area where clashes broke out between tribal and…
