The Neyyattinkara Additional Sessions Court on Monday awarded the death sentence to SS Greeshma, who was convicted of murdering her 23-year-old boyfriend, Sharon Raj, by administering a lethal herbicide-laced Ayurvedic concoction in October 2022. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on Greeshma.
Staying all the proceedings before the trial court in Ranchi till further orders, a bench of Justice Vikran Math and Justice Sandeep Mehta issued notice to the Jharkhand government and the Bharatiya Janata Party leader Navin Jha – the complainant before the trial court.
The chief minister also wrote a letter to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, urging him to withdraw the draft regulations of the UGC, 2024 and 2025.
A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan also directed the Registrar General of the Delhi High Court to ensure proper video conferencing facilities at Tihar jail also where Yasin Malik is lodged and is undergoing life imprisonment.
The Chhattisgarh State Election Commission has announced the schedule for urban local body and three-tier panchayat elections across the state, bringing the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) into immediate effect in the poll-bound regions.
Speaking after launching the portal in New Delhi, Shah highlighted that the initiative by the CBI, Bharatpol will enable access to the 19 types of Interpol databases to the country's state police and the probe agencies.
With the announcement of the date of the poll, the model code of conduct (MCC) has now come into effect in the national capital.The term of the 70-member Delhi Assembly will end on February 23.
Demanding the recall of Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi for insulting Thamizh Thai Vazhthu (invocation for mother Tamil), DMK Deputy General Secretary Kanimozhi, MP, on Tuesday likened his walkout from the assembly to that of a kid running away from school citing lame excuses like stomach ache.
Defence spokesman Lt Colonel Suneel Bartwal said that Havaldar Baldev Singh (Retd), a revered war hero, passed away Monday due to natural causes in his hometown of Naushera.
Amid reports of detection of the Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) cases in different states including Karnataka, the Union Health Ministry has advised the States and Union Territories (UTs) to strengthen Influenza-Like Illness (ILI)/ Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) surveillance.
