Tag: Delhi

Source: newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court said on Friday it will hear on September 3 former IAS officer Shah Faesal’s plea alleging he was illegally detained at Delhi airport on August 14 and taken back to Srinagar where he has been kept under house arrest. A bench of Justices Manmohan and Sangita Dhingra

Source: indianexpress.com When her name was called out Saturday to receive the gold medal for standing first in her LL.M class at the National Law University, Delhi, Surbhi Karwa was at work. “Unfortunately, she is not here. We will award her the medal in absentia,” Prof (Dr) G S Bajpai, the university registrar, said during

Source: hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court will consider on Monday a policy submitted by the Delhi government to restrict the number of guests and wastage of food at social functions at motel and farmhouses in the capital. On July 1, the apex court had directed the AAP government to formulate a policy to curb extravagance in

Source: hindustantimes.com A 60-year-old Supreme Court lawyer was found murdered inside her bungalow in Noida Sector 31 on Tuesday night. Police said two of the lawyer’s domestic helps — husband and wife — who had been hired last week were absconding and were suspects in the case. The victim, Kuljeet Kaur, was found dead with

Source: hindustantimes.com The Delhi High Court has upheld the acquittal of a man by a trial court in a rape case, saying the woman’s testimony was “untrustworthy”, full on contradictions and she had called him 529 times between the date of alleged rape and the filing of the complaint. A bench of Justices Manmohan and

Source: news18.com New Delhi: Twenty eight years after he was booked on charges of demanding a bribe of Rs 250, a former Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) official has been acquitted by the Delhi High Court. Justice R.K. Gauba acquitted Jagan Nath while setting aside a trial court judgement of February 28, 2002 in which

Source:- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court will on Tuesday hear the Centre’s plea against Delhi high court’s recent order that put on hold a government notification to make the 2016 black money law operational with retrospective effect from July 2015 to book and probe offenders. The appeal has also questioned the HC’s interim order that stops the

Source- ndtv.com As black smoke pours out of an ancient scooter that’s been pulled over, a khaki-clad New Delhi transport official issues a fine to its rider: 100 rupees, about $1.42. It’s hardly Hollywood stuff, but this is progress in a city of 20 million on the front lines of India’s battle against the world’s worst

Source- zeenews.india.com The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the case of Tarun Tejpal for three weeks after the Goa government had earlier sought deferment of the matter, news agency ANI reported. The founding editor of Tehelka magazine, Tarun Tejpal, is accused of sexual assault on his junior woman colleague in a Goa hotel in November

Source- ndtv.com India is the world’s second most polluted country, slightly trailing only Nepal, the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) said on Monday. Particulate pollution is so severe that it shortens the average Indian’s life expectancy by more than four years relative to what it would be if World Health Organization (WHO)