Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today made it clear that the state would move high court seeking capital punishment for the convict while expressing shock at the hearing of verdict of life sentence in the R G Kar rape and murder case.
Expressing displeasure over the undesirable condition of the Nagrota-based 'Gowshala' (cattle pound) here, a division bench of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh headed by Chief Justice Tashi Rabstan orally directed in the open court the termination of contract of the outsourced agency in case the deficiencies persist before the next date of hearing.
Terming the restrictions as “impractical”, the Supreme Court on Thursday put on hold the Kerala High Court's order on the use of elephants and observing distances between them, the public, flambeau, and the percussion display during festival parades, including the ‘Thrissur Pooram”.
Earlier in the day, a local court remanded the actor to judicial custody for 14 days and sent him to Chanchalguda jail under tight security.
The Kerala High Court on Thursday ruled that comments by the media declaring an accused guilty or innocent while a criminal case is still pending does not fall under protected free speech under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India
Justice Suresh Kumar Kait took oath on Wednesday, as the new Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The state Governor Mangubhai Patel administered the oath to the Chief Justice at the swearing-in ceremony organised at the Raj Bhavan here.
The claim by Naidu at a meeting of NDA to mark 100 days of his government created a huge controversy since the laddus are offered to Lord Venkateshwar at Tirupati and consumed by millions as prasadam.
The Supreme Court will pronounce on Tuesday its verdict in a suo moto case concerning the right to privacy of adolescents in the wake of “sweeping observations” made in a Calcutta High Court ruling advising “adolescent girls to learn how to control their sexual urges.”
The Egyptian ship anchored at Paradip port on 5 August from the Port of Chittagong, Bangladesh for export of iron ores to China.
With the directive of the High Court the South 24-Parganas district administration on Thursday demolished a multi-storied building near Mukundapur area.
