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46 farmers commit suicide every day in India; Maharashtra tops list New Delhi, Dec 14: Fourty-six farmers commit suicide every day in this country even as packages were rolled out in a bid to bailout the debt-ridden community from crisis. A whopping 16,632 cases of suicides by farmers, including 2,369 women were reported across the country last year with Maharashtra retaining the dubious..

A court received a letter purportedly sent by militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) to blow up court complexes today, forcing the authorities to beef up security in and around the court. The authorities received a letter to blow up Delhi District Tis Hazari court bearing the signature of a person from JeM stating that they could not carry the bomb blast on December 4 but were certainly going t..

Former Indian cricket captain Kapil Dev pleaded before the Delhi High Court that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) should be directed to release pensions to him and other players, who joined the rival Indian Cricket League (ICL). Kapil accused the Board of adopting ‘delaying tactics’ in the legal proceedings after the BCCI sought adjournment in the matter. Appearing before th..

Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan directed the Maharashtra State Legal Services Authority to provide free legal aid to dependants of all those affected in the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks. It is for the first time that the Supreme Court has come forward to help the families of the terror victims by giving them legal assistance to overcome the aftermath of the attacks. It has communicate..

NEW DELHI: Overwhelmed by the audacious terror strike in the heart of Mumbai, former attorney general Soli J Sorabjee gave vent to the public angst by moving the Supreme Court with a PIL for a direction to the Centre to equip and train the police making them capable of tackling terrorists and creating an atmosphere where citizens’ right to life is protected. It is rare that a former law officer mo..

hennai: The Madras high court seems to have become a favourite stepping stone for senior judges on their way to the Supreme Court. Including the chief justice A K Ganguly, who is to be sworn in judge of the Supreme Court in a couple of days, the 26-judge apex court will have five judges who have had a stint in the Madras high court. The apex court already has chief justice K G Balakrishn..

The Delhi High Court has given green signal to the DMRC to go ahead with its project in East Delhi which had come under judicial scrutiny after it was alleged that the land was illegally alloted to the corporation. "DMRC is free to proceed with the construction of the Metro Station in the land alloted by the DDA and it would be free to deal with the said land in terms of the letter of allotme..

With the increasing activism of the judiciary and the role of media in reporting the court proceedings, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishan has taken an initiative to make the legal correspondents aware of their responsibilities while performing their job.Justice Balakrishnan inaugurated a five-day free of cost residential programme. The programme was jointly organised by the National Legal Ser..

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Sunday asked the media to be "more responsible" and not pose hurdles to risky operations of security forces. Referring to the coverage of Mumbai attacks, CJ I Balakrishnan said that the coverage of the siege might have been used by the terrorists to their advantage. "A lot of criticism was made for the way media was reporting the Mumbai..

Troops confront Mumbai attackers Indian security forces have been exchanging fire with gunmen holding dozens of hostages in two luxury hotels in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay). Troops surrounded the premises shortly after armed men carried out a series of co-ordinated attacks across the city, killing 101 people and injuring 287. The hotels were among several locations in the main tou..

New Delhi: The Yamuna will finally get cleaner. In a stunning instance of judicial activism, the Delhi high court on Tuesday ordered a two-week jail term for former Delhi Jal Board CEO Arun Mathur and two other top officials of the Board for their failure to prevent sewage from flowing into the Yamuna, despite assuring the court two years ago that they would take steps to prevent this. The j..

New Delhi: Gujarat capital Gandhinagar saw protests against Chief Minister Narendra Modi's demolition drive against illegal construction including temples. The demolition drive has seen 200 temples being razed to the ground so far. On Tuesday night the Sai Baba temple was demolished after a local court refused to give a stay. A total os 400 temples have been identified as illegal in city. ..

Malegaon case: Court rejects ATS plea In a setback to the Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad in the Malegaon blast case, an MCOCA court on Monday rejected the agency’s plea for granting it custody of the accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Ajay Rahirkar, after they alleged that they had been tortured. P 12 India not facing recession: FM Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Mo..

Proper understanding of religion need of hour City reporter GUWAHATI, Nov 23 – “In the changing dimensions of terrorism, and fundamental or religious terrorism emerging as the deadliest of all, it is important for the people to learn about their own religion properly, as none of the religions teaches violence,” said Justice IA Ansari, judge of Gauhati High Court, on the concluding day of the na..

New Delhi: BCCI top brass and Union minister Sharad Pawar rushed to the Supreme Court on Friday seeking a ‘third umpire’ view on the legality of the Calcutta High Court’s direction to initiate criminal proceedings against them, allegedly for filing a false affidavit in the case relating to expulsion of Jagmohan Dalmiya from the cricket board. Among those against whom the HC ordered criminal..