File photo of businessman Boby Chemmanur | Photo Credit: PTI The Kerala High Court granted bail on Tuesday (January 14, 2025) to businessman Boby Chemmanur, in the sexual harassment case that was registered against him on a complaint by a woman actor. He had been arrested in connection with the case, and remanded in judicial … Read more
The government is looking again at whether disabled people in England should be able to claim more than £30,000 to make adaptations to their homes. Ministers have agreed to review the cap on the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) after a court challenge. The grant pays for alterations, such as installing wet rooms or stairlifts. The … Read more
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with State DGP Prashant Kumar during an event. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Uttar Pradesh government has granted the highest pay scale to its acting Director General of Police (DGP) Prashant Kumar, bypassing at least 12 senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officers above him in the hierarchy. The … Read more
A Pune Session Court has granted interim protection from arrest till July 25 to Dilip Khedkar, father of controversial probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar, in a case where he is accused of threatening a local farmer over a land dispute. Dilip Khedlar filed an anticipatory bail plea in court on Friday. Khedkar is co-accused with … Read more
Activist Gautam Navlakha. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Supreme Court on May 14 granted bail to activist Gautam Navlakha in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. A bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and S.V.N. Bhatti refused to extend the stay imposed by the Bombay High Court order on the bail granted to Navlakha … Read more
The National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has given approval to construct training walls at the Pazhaverkadu estuary to stabilise the bar mouth, which often gets closed due to silting. An official, who was a part of the NBWL meeting held in New Delhi on November 17, confirmed that consent was granted for the construction of … Read more
The Kerala High Court has directed the Director General of Prisons and Correctional Services to grant 15 days leave to a life convict lodged at the Central Prison, Viyyur, to undergo fertility treatment under In Vitro Fertilisation/Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (IVF/ICSI) to have a child. The court passed the order on a petition filed by his … Read more
The Madras High Court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member S.G. Suryah in a case booked against him by the Cuddalore police for a report carried in the online portal The Commune, in which he was a Director, regarding the action of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department in … Read more
The High Level Committee (HLC) that met under the chairmanship of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday, has approved additional Central assistance of ₹941.04 crore to poll-bound Karnataka under the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) towards damages due to flood, landslips, and cloudburst during 2022. Karnataka is one of the five States to get … Read more
India is unlikely to sign a deal with richer nations this year for a just energy transition, as international funding rests on India committing to a timeline to phase out coal, an “unviable” proposition for the country, energy analysts said. The Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations, together with Norway, Denmark and the European Union, … Read more