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New Delhi: congress Lok Sabha leader and deputy leader of the party Gaurav Gogoi is likely to contest the upcoming Assam Assembly elections from Jorhat constituency, news agency ANI reported, citing party sources.Meanwhile, the Grand Old Party finalized its candidates for as many as 40 seats at a Central Election Committee meeting held on Friday. … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday reprimanded the West Bengal government for sporadically rushing to court on “vague and irrelevant” reasons to delay the completion of particularly intensive revisions of the state electoral roll to hasten election results. SC Judicial officials from Jharkhand and Odisha have been deployed.“Please do not come to the court … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday asked an expert panel to re-examine the British-era retirement age and service conditions of personnel of the armed forces, including the Coast Guard, as the government seeks to rid the country of its colonial legacy.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi passed the order … Read more
New Delhi: In an unusually reflective remark, a bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant on Friday said the Supreme Court has repeatedly passed sweeping orders ignoring the social realities of India and failing to understand its adverse impact on the social fabric.When a spate of petitions challenging the validity of the sedition provisions in … Read more
Jammu: Vigilance forces spotted a suspicious drone along the route control line (LoC) in Gulpur area of Poonch district of J&K on Friday and fired several bullets at it. However, the drone cannot be shot down.The drone then traveled to Siriyan village in Gulpur and allegedly entered the other side of the Line of Actual … Read more
New Delhi: Indian Youth Congress president Uday Bhanu Chib, who was arrested for protesting topless at the Bharat Mandapam during the Artificial Intelligence Summit, was granted bail on Saturday.Lawyer Sulaiman Mohammad Khan said the duty magistrate granted Chib bail after the Delhi crime branch failed to provide any sufficient reason for seeking police custody of … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has said that the Constitutional Court must be careful while conducting judicial review of laws to avoid creating an anti-investment atmosphere and should weigh national interest against hypothetical concerns about the legislation.CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi made these oral observations during the preliminary hearing of the PIL in … Read more
India is paying close attention to the situation in Afghanistan Pakistan The situation appears to be about to escalate dangerously as Islamabad declares the two countries are in “open war” after Pakistan launched airstrikes on “terrorist hideouts” in Afghanistan and retaliated. Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have deteriorated sharply over the past few years. Pakistan … Read more
Varanasi: Police have registered a theft case against three women for allegedly stealing underwear worth around Rs 10,000 from a shop in Chetganj district, a police official said on Friday.Chetganj station officer Vijay Kumar Shukla said that according to shop owner Sudeep Singh, the theft took place on February 24 when three women came to … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the plea of Vikas Yadav, convicted in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, to be released from jail on leave. Yadav is currently serving a 25-year sentence without commutation.A bench of Justices MM Sundresh and Vipul M Pancholi noted that Yadav had already served 23 years of … Read more