File picture of Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale. | Photo Credit: PTI TMC MP Saket Gokhale on Wednesday (April 16, 2025) expressed his willingness before the Delhi High Court to settle issues with former diplomat Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri, to whom he has been asked to apologise and pay ₹50 lakh as damages in a defamation … Read more
Jim Reed BBC News Reporting fromSupreme Court, London Pamela Tickell BBC News, North East and Cumbria BBC Parents of the deceased children heard doctors involved in their care could be named Doctors in two end-of-life cases can be named, the Supreme Court has ruled, after the parents of two children said they wanted to “tell … Read more
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minster N. Chandrababu Naidu chairing the Cabinet meeting at the Secretariat on Tuesday. The Andhra Pradesh State Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, has approved the proposal granting authority to the AP CRDA Commissioner to approve the L1 (the bidder who submitted the lowest bid or quotation) bids for two … Read more
Lawyers under the banner of Abhibhashaka Parishath staging a protest against court fee hike in front of the court complex at Tirur on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Lawyers under the banner of the Abhibhashaka Parishath staged a protest in front of the court complex at Tirur on Tuesday against the State government for … Read more
A Jaipur special court on Tuesday (April 8, 2025) sentenced four convicts to life imprisonment in connection with the 2008 Jaipur serial bomb blasts case. The four convicts, namely, Sarwar Azmi, Shahbaz, Saifur Rehman and Mohammad Saif, were convicted under various sections of IPC, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Explosive Substances Act by the … Read more
The Chhattisgarh High Court has said that a woman cannot be forced to undergo a virginity test which violates Article 21 of the Constitution that guarantees her fundamental right to protection of life and liberty, including the right to dignity. The high court said granting permission for a virginity test would be against the fundamental … Read more
A view of the Supreme Court of India, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Supreme Court on Wednesday (March 19, 2025) questioned the claims of high development rate and per capita income when certain States have about 70% of their population living below poverty line, and wondered whether distribution schemes of … Read more
Kannada actor Ranya Rao on Saturday filed a bail petition in the Sessions Court, a day after her request for bail was rejected by a lower court in the gold smuggling case. The Sessions Court is expected to hear the petition on Monday. The Special Court for Economic Offences denied bail to the Kannada actor … Read more
Manikrao Kokate. File photo: X/@kokate_manikrao A court in Nashik on Wednesday (March 5, 2025) stayed the conviction of Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Manikrao Kokate in a cheating and forgery case of 1995. A Magistrate Court on February 20 convicted the NCP leader and his brother Sunil Kokate and sentenced them to two-year imprisonment in the case … Read more
M.K. Alagiri. File | Photo Credit: S. James The Madras High Court on Tuesday (March 4, 2025) reversed an order passed by a judicial magistrate in Madurai in 2021 discharging former Union Minister M.K. Alagiri from select provisions of law in a 2014 land grab case and ordered that he must face trial for those … Read more