Share intelligence to avoid Mumbai type attack: Rehman Malik
September 8th, 2012 - 7:31 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 8 (IANS) India must share intelligence on terrorists with Pakistan so that a "Mumbai type terror attack does not take place again", Interior Minister Rehman Malik said here ... Read more...
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Pussy Riot to appeal sentence
August 22nd, 2012 - 8:07 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Aug 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The defence team of punk group Pussy Riot will next week appeal the two-year prison sentence for its three members."Today, we received the copy of ... Read more...
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Court order promotes ‘balika vadhus’ among Muslims: Thackeray
June 8th, 2012 - 12:43 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 8 (IANS) Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray Friday expressed concern over a recent Delhi High Court judgement allowing Muslim girls attaining puberty the right to get married."This is ... Read more...
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Action only after studying court judgment: Jaiprakash Associates
May 5th, 2012 - 10:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Infrastructure major Jaiprakash Associates Saturday said that it is studying the Himachal Pradesh High Court judgement penalising the company for setting up a thermal power ... Read more...
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Protests in Bihar against acquittal of massacre accused
April 17th, 2012 - 7:09 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, April 17 (IANS) Hundreds of people in Bihar took to the streets Tuesday against a Patna High Court verdict acquitting 23 men convicted for the 1996 massacre of 21 ... Read more...
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Apex court reserves verdict on anti-gay sex petitions
March 27th, 2012 - 3:16 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions challenging the Delhi High Court's judgement decriminalising consensual sex among adults of the ... Read more...
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Supreme Court pulls up government for bureaucratic delays
February 24th, 2012 - 11:05 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday censured the government for procedural delays and red tape even for challenging an adverse verdict against it by a lower court.The ... Read more...
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Mumbai Congress chief resigns
February 22nd, 2012 - 8:25 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh Wednesday resigned from his post following a Bombay High Court order to prosecute him in corruption cases, a party official said.Singh's ... Read more...
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Essar Oil seeks review of SC decision on tax order
February 16th, 2012 - 2:54 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Feb 16 (IANS) Essar Oil Ltd Thursday said it had filed a review petition in the Supreme Court seeking a review of the decision to set aside a Gujarat ... Read more...
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Rainbow bookshelf: The queer story, now in print (Feature)
December 1st, 2011 - 1:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) Boy meets girl, they fall in love, get married and live happily ever after. The end. But for queers, the story doesn't end there. It ... Read more...
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Singur farmers distribute sweets, throw colour
September 28th, 2011 - 11:26 pm ICT by IANS
Singur (West Bengal), Sep 28 (IANS) Residents of this hamlet distributed sweets, and joyously smeared each other with gulal on hearing of the Calcutta High Court judgement Wednesday upholding ... Read more...
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Haren Pandya’s sisters to approach PM for justice
September 2nd, 2011 - 10:21 pm ICT by IANS
Gandhinagar, Sep 2 (IANS) Following in the footsteps of their late father, the two sisters of BJP leader and former minister Haren Pandya who was killed in 2003 have ... Read more...
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OBC’s 10 percent relief is on eligibility marks: Apex court
August 18th, 2011 - 1:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Other Backward Classes (OBC) students will qualify for admissions if they have 10 percent less marks than the eligibility level fixed for the general category ... Read more...
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Mathew turns against Maria, files plea against conviction
July 17th, 2011 - 7:39 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, July 17 (IANS) Ex-naval officer Emile Jerome Mathew, convicted for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in TV executive Neeraj Grover's killing, has challenged his conviction in the Bombay ... Read more...
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India protests against Danish refusal to extradite Kim Davy
July 8th, 2011 - 8:16 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) Mounting pressure on Copenhagen, India Friday regretted Denmark's refusal to extradite Kim Davy, the 1995 Purulia arms drop accused, and protested that a court's judgment ... Read more...
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Rana verdict contradictory: Ujjwal Nikam
June 10th, 2011 - 4:18 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 10 (IANS) Eminent lawyer Ujjwal Nikam Friday termed as "contradictory" the decision of a US court to clear Pakistan-born Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana in the 2008 Mumbai attack ... Read more...
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Dhaka verdict on fatwa hailed with caution
May 13th, 2011 - 12:00 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, May 13 (IANS) Bangladesh's civil society and Islamic scholars have hailed a court verdict on he fatwa, but asked the government to specify who could issue it so as ... Read more...
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CP shootout case: Supreme Court upholds life sentence for 10 policemen
May 2nd, 2011 - 1:57 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, May 2 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the conviction and life sentence of ten Delhi Police officials including an Assistant Police Commissioner for killing of two Haryana-based businessmen ... Read more...
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AIMPLB meet in Hyderabad to discuss Babri case
April 22nd, 2011 - 8:03 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, April 22 (IANS) A crucial meeting of the executive committee of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is beginning here Saturday to discuss a host of issues, including ... Read more...
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Pak Govt to seek Musharraf’s extradition only on court’s order
April 6th, 2011 - 3:16 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, April 6(ANI): The Pakistan Government will formally write to Britain for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf's extradition in connection with the Benazir Bhutto assassination case only if the court directed ... Read more...
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Jailed as juvenile, man awarded Rs.5 lakh compensation
April 1st, 2011 - 10:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday directed the Delhi government to pay a compensation of Rs.5 lakh to a man who was jailed for eight years ... Read more...
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Grameen Yunus’s petition hearing put off for two weeks
March 15th, 2011 - 2:24 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, March 15 (IANS) The Bangladesh Supreme Court Tuesday adjourned for two weeks a hearing against a high court verdict upholding the removal of Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus as managing ... Read more...
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Wife of Indian entrepreneur owes 140 million dollars as tax in Australia
March 9th, 2011 - 6:14 pm ICT by ANI
Canberra, Mar.9 (ANI): A court judgement has revealed that Radhika Oswal, wife of Indian entrepreneur Pankaj Oswal owes the Australian tax department 140 million dollars and may have also received 80 million ... Read more...
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PM is run by proxy: CPI-M
March 3rd, 2011 - 7:13 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) The apex court judgement striking down the appointment of Central Vigilance Commissioner P.J. Thomas shows how "honest" Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is being "victimised for ... Read more...
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Kasab trial raised prestige of Indian judiciary: Chidambaram
February 21st, 2011 - 4:01 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Monday said the trial of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab had raised the prestige of the Indian judiciary and welcomed the Bombay ... Read more...
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Supreme Court to hear pleas against gay sex in April
February 7th, 2011 - 4:39 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday fixed April 19 for hearing a bunch of petitions challenging a Delhi High Court judgement decriminalising homosexual relationship among consenting adults.Justice G.S. Singhvi ... Read more...
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Serious challenges to internal security: Manmohan Singh
February 1st, 2011 - 3:10 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Feb 1 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, today said that serious challenges and threats to the country from left wing extremism, cross-border terrorism, religious fundamentalism and ethnic ... Read more...
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Welcome apex court decision on Dara Singh: Archbishop
January 21st, 2011 - 2:22 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Jan 21 (IANS) Christians Friday said they accepted the life term handed down to Dara Singh for killing Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons in 1999 in Orissa while ... Read more...
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Government committed to reservation: Pilot tells Gujjars (Lead)
January 1st, 2011 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
Jaipur, Jan 1 (IANS) Even as the proposed two-way talks to end the Gujjar agitation for job quota remained in limbo, the Gujjar community representatives in the Congress party met Saturday to ... Read more...
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Chhattisgarh right activists protest Binayak Sen’s conviction
December 31st, 2010 - 11:45 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, Dec 31 (IANS) Right activists and workers of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (CMM) held a rally and ... Read more...
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Gujjars, Rajasthan government hold talks
December 30th, 2010 - 8:12 pm ICT by IANS
Bayana (Rajasthan), Dec 30 (IANS) The first round of talks between the Gujjar community, agitating for the past 11 days for five percent reservation in government jobs, and the Rajasthan government officials ... Read more...
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‘No One Killed Jessica’ is my dramatic interpretation of case: Director
November 18th, 2010 - 7:40 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Director Rajkujmar Gupta says his forthcoming film "No One Killed Jessica" is his "own interpretation" of the case, but it is not judgemental."The trials of the ... Read more...
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AIMPLB to appeal against Ayodhya Verdict
October 17th, 2010 - 1:20 pm ICT by ANI
Lucknow, Oct 17 (ANI): The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has decided to move to the Supreme Court to challenge the verdict of the Allahabad High Court on the Ayodhya title ... Read more...
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Congress decides to avoid hasty decision on the fate of Karanataka Govt.
October 11th, 2010 - 11:23 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Oct.11 (ANI): The Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Monday evening held discussions on the situation arising after the controversial win by the B.S. Yeddyurappa-led Government during the trust vote ... Read more...
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Supreme Court stays order on Sterlite plant closure (Lead)
October 1st, 2010 - 9:26 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Oct 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday stayed till Oct 18 the Madras High Court order asking Sterlite Industries to shut down its copper smelter plant in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu.Sterlite Industries, ... Read more...
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