NEW DELHI: In a dramatic development, a junior woman judicial officer has resigned, protesting the appointment of a district judge as an HC judge despite her serious allegations of misconduct against him. In her resignation letter, she lamented that the constitutional courts rewarded a judge who had severely harassed and tormented her.The judicial officer, reinstated…
NEW DELHI: The mystery around a ‘ghost litigant’ in Supreme Court deepened further as the third lawyer whose name appeared in the order sheet for the litigant told the court Tuesday that he was not involved in any way in the case and did not know how his name cropped up. Suspecting the role of…
NEW DELHI: Delhi HC Tuesday said it would examine on July 31 jailed Lok Sabha MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh’s plea seeking interim bail to attend Parliament’s Monsoon session. A bench of justices Vivek Chaudhary and Mini Pushkarna also indicated that it was inclined to send the plea before another bench, which had originally allowed him…
KULLU: Three members of a family died, and dozens of houses and vehicles were damaged in a flash flood that hit Jail Road area of Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi town early Tuesday. The death toll in the state this monsoon has risen to 170, with 45 of them in Mandi district alone. This is the first…
BENGALURU: Karnataka chief ministerSiddaramaiah‘s attempt to ease internal unrest in Congress by holding a series of meetings with party MLAs has instead intensified the ongoing power tussle within the governing party, particularly between him and his deputy, DK Shivakumar.The meetings, which started Tuesday, were intended to address legislators’ grievances and distribute sanction letters for special…
KOCHI: Confusion prevails over revocation of death sentence of Nimisha Priya, the Kerala nurse on death row in Yemen for 2017 murder of a Yemeni citizen, with the victim’s brother contesting claims by an eminent cleric that an “agreement” has been reached.Victim Talal Abdo Mahdi’s brother, Abdul Fattah Mahdi, rejected the claims by Kerala Sunni…
Mumbai: NCP minister Manikrao Kokate, who has repeatedly courted controversy with his remarks and recently drew criticism for allegedly playing a game of ‘rummy’ on his mobile phone in the state legislature, was let off by his party chief and deputy CM Ajit Pawar on Tuesday with a warning and censure. At the same time,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday issued contempt of court notices to three lawyers for making scurrilous and scandalous remarks against Telangana HC’s Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya in a petition in SC seeking transfer of the case from her court to another judge after she quashed SC/ST Act charges against CM Revanth Reddy.A bench of Chief…
Following Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav’s sharp attack that China is encroaching on the Indian side, parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday said that China has not intruded “even an inch” into the Indian territory, including in Arunachal Pradesh, since the 1962 war.“When Akhilesh Yadav said that China has entered and occupied areas in…
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey was speaking in Hindi in Lok Sabha on Tuesday when there was a technical glitch in the translator system. Following this, DMK MPs requested him to speak in English. Dubey refused to do so, saying English is a foreign language.“…It would have been better if you had asked me to speak…