NEW DELHI: From demonising an Indian neighbourhood as “Pakistan” to expressing demographic fears over conversions, from trash-talking a woman advocate about the colour of a male colleague’s “undergarments” to forbidding widows against wearing makeup, high court judges have been dropping one clanger after another. And the Supreme Court has found itself having to clean up […]
BENGALURU: A case was registered on Saturday against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and others on the directions of a court here, following a complaint relating to the now-scrapped electoral bonds scheme. According to police, an FIR was registered under sections 384 (punishment for extortion) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) read with 34 (acts done by […]
NEW DELHI: The Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committees for 2024-2025 were constituted with the Congress members chairing four committees, including the External Affairs. Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi is a member of the standing committee on Defence. Each committee is a combination of members from both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. The Congress has been given […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the High-Performance Computing (HPC) system – tailored for weather and climate research, acquired by the Ministry of Earth Sciences. The ambitious project represents an investment of Rs 850 crore, marking a significant leap in India’s computational capabilities for more reliable and accurate weather and climate forecasting, particularly […]
MUMBAI: Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan has praised Rahul Gandhi, saying the Congress leader has changed people’s perception about him by working hard on himself. At the India Today Mumbai Conclave 2024 on Thursday evening, the actor said he likes a politician who is brave and honest. Asked about the politician, from Prime Minister Narendra […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday termed as “unwarranted and extraneous” the Madras High Court directive to YouTuber Felix Jerald to close down his channel as one of the bail conditions. The top court also confirmed its September 6 order granting bail to Jerald sans the condition asking him to close down his YouTube […]
NEW DELHI: Using 100 years of daily records of the Sun at the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of DST, have succeeded in mapping, for the very first time, the variation in the rotation speed of the Sun’s chromosphere — from the equator right up to […]
LUCKNOW: A case of an elderly couple aged between 75 and 80 years fighting a legal battle against each other for alimony made Allahabad High Court remark that “seems Kalyug has arrived”. A bench of Justice Saurabh Shyam Shamshery last week was hearing a petition filed by one Munish Kumar Gupta (husband) challenging a family […]
NEW DELHI: The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, is a civil code that is applicable to every woman in India irrespective of her religious affiliation or social background, the Supreme Court has said. A bench of Justice B V Nagarathna and Justice N Kotiswar Singh said the 2005 legislation was applicable to […]
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut has been granted bail, hours after a magistrate’s court in Mumbai convicted him in a defamation case filed by Medha Somaiya, the wife of former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya. Raut’s sentence was also suspended for 30 days, granting him time to file an appeal. Lawyer Vivekanand Gupta, representing […]