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Terrorists help each other, PFI founder in custody gets Madani’s support for bail
Popular Front of India (PFI) founding chairman Erappungal Abubacker (E Abubacker) is currently in judicial custody. The 70-year-old Islamist leader of the banned terrorist...
Kerala police atrocities rising under CM Vijayan’s rule
Kerala police officers are constantly in the news for all the wrong reasons. Circle inspector (CI) and Station House Officer (SHO) Sunu PR, attached...
SC collegium “perfect”, doesn’t require fine tuning: Ex-CJI U.U. Lalit
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Former Chief Justice of India U.U. Lalit on Sunday said the Supreme Court collegium is perfect and it does not require any fine-tuning.
When queried...
On November 1, Justice A K Jayasankaran Nambiar from the Kerala high court issued an 'instruction.' It read, "As secular democratic institutions under the...
23 years after sentencing 4 of Rajiv Gandhi’s killers to death, SC has now released all 7 convicts
Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed by an LTTE suicide bomber at an election meeting in Tamil Nadu’s Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991.
In...
Bhima Koregaon case: SC allows Gautam Navlakha to be placed under house arrest
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The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed activist Gautam Navlakha, accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, to be placed under house arrest.
A bench comprising Justices...
The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to grant an urgent hearing on a plea seeking a ban on stubble burning as a measure to...
On 9 February 2012, Kiran Negi, a resident of Qutub Vihar, Phase II in Dwarka in south-west Delhi, was returning home from her work...
Uttarakhand High Court (HC) dropped the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) trial against the accused saying the victim doesn't intend to continue...
‘50% ceiling in reservation only for SC/ST, OBC’: SC in EWS quota verdict
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The Supreme Court on Monday said the 50 per cent ceiling for reservation - which was fixed in 1992 in Mandal Commission case by...