A 22-year-old college student accused of setting fire to a full-service abortion clinic in Wyoming is expected to enter a plea to an arson charge in federal court on Friday. Lorna Roxanne Green, 22, allegedly told investigators that she decided to burn the Wellspring Health Access clinic in Casper, Wyoming, weeks before its grand opening… Read More »
Last Updated: June 01, 2023, 12:19 IST On May 19, the RBI had announced withdrawal of Rs 2,000 currency notes from circulation Seeking urgent listing of the plea, the lawyer said the Rs 2000 banknotes are being exchanged without any requisition slip and ID proof like Aadhaar card by criminals and terrorists also The Supreme… Read More »
A ‘mahapanchayat’ is scheduled to happen in Muzaffarnagar’s Soram village. (File pic: PTI) On the banks of the holy Ganga in Haridwar, a group of esteemed wrestlers, accompanied by hundreds of supporters, threatened to immerse their World and Olympic medals in form of protest. A ‘mahapanchayat’ is scheduled to happen in Muzaffarnagar’s Soram village today,… Read More »
Last Updated: May 31, 2023, 17:04 IST Protests erupted after the arrest of former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf: party chairman Imran Khan. (Image: AFP) The court will also hear two additional bail petitions of Imran Khan, concerning cases pertaining to a violation of Section 144 during a rally in Islamabad and May 9 violence… Read More »
The Delhi High Court has upheld the default bail granted by a trial court to former Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL) promoters Kapil Wadhawan and his brother Dheeraj in a CBI probe alleging that the two, along with others, entered into a “criminal conspiracy” to cheat and induce a consortium of 17 banks led… Read More »
Published By: Kavya Mishra Last Updated: May 30, 2023, 22:19 IST BJP MP and WFI head Brij Bhushan Saran Singh has refuted the allegations; the wrestlers (right) in Uttarakhand on Tuesday. (File/PTI) The issue arose as the cases related to sexual offences against minors have to be heard by a special court set up under… Read More »
While dismissing a plea against notifications of the Reserve Bank of India and the State Bank India permitting exchange of Rs. 2000 banknotes without “obtaining any requisition slip and identity proof” the Delhi high court Monday said that this decision “is not a decision towards demonetisation”. A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma… Read More »
Published By: Pragati Pal Last Updated: May 29, 2023, 13:53 IST The plea submitted that the notifications were arbitrary, irrational and offend Article 14 of the Constitution. (File pic/News18) A bench of Chief Justice Satish Kumar Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad rejected the petition, which has challenged the notifications by the RBI and SBI enabling… Read More »
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and former Maharashtra minister Anil Parab on Monday claimed that BJP leader Kirit Somaiya has withdrawn a petition he filed before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against Dapoli’s Sai Resort, which at one point was owned by Parab, as the tribunal was about to dismiss it. The petition alleged violation of… Read More »
The top court said these are education matters and it has to defer the issue to experts (Representative image) The top court was hearing a plea filed by Chandan Kumar and others against the eligibility criterion of 75 per cent marks in Class 12 board exams for admission to IITs The Supreme Court on Monday… Read More »
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver a heartfelt plea for Australians to vote for change at the upcoming Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum later this year. Speaking at an event in Adelaide, the Prime Minister will call on the country to “do one better” than the 1967 constitutional change. Follow Us on Google News
The Nigerian Navy on Sunday returned a Norwegian-registered vessel, MT Heroic Idun, caught trying to steal Nigeria’s crude oil last year. The navy arrested the oil tanker alongside its 26 crew members in August last year and later convicted them in court. They were fined $15 million by the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt in… Read More »
It’s been six months since four University of Idaho students were brutally stabbed to death inside their off-campus home. The man accused in their murders appeared before a judge Monday. Rather than entering a verbal “guilty” or “not guilty” plea, Bryan Kohberger utilized the state’s “Standing Silent” plea. The judge made the decision for him.… Read More »
An Idaho judge entered a not guilty plea on behalf of Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students last year. Photo: Zach Wilkinson/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News/AP Follow Us on Google News
Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger is expected to appear in court Monday for his arraignment and plead guilty to first-degree murder charges. The 28-year-old graduate student is scheduled to appear in a Latah County courtroom for an arraignment hearing before District Judge John Judge. The parents of his alleged victims have promised to be present.… Read More »
The bench said the plea would be heard on Friday. New Delhi: The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on May 26 a plea by senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee against his questioning by the CBI in the school jobs scam case. Abhishek Banerjee, who was on May 20 questioned for over nine hours by… Read More »
Published By: Paras Yadav Last Updated: May 20, 2023, 08:00 IST Image used for Representation. (Photo: IANS) The court granted four weeks time to the authorities to file their replies to the application and listed the matter for further hearing on August 10 The Delhi High Court has sought response of the NHAI and the… Read More »
Last Updated: May 19, 2023, 12:43 IST On May 12,The Allahabad HC set aside an October 14 order of the Varanasi District Court that rejected a plea for the use of scientific methods, including carbon dating of the structure. (File Photo/PTI) On May 12, the Allahabad High Court ordered the use of scientific methods, including… Read More »
Online safety campaigners have welcomed Kate Winslet’s call on “people in power” to criminalise harmful digital content during her Bafta acceptance speech, as the UK parliament debates legislation to rein in social media platforms. The actor won the television award on Sunday for her portrayal of a mother whose teenage daughter suffers from mental health… Read More »
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has reserved its order on the bail plea of liquor giant Pernod Ricard’s executive Benoy Babu in a money-laundering case lodged by the ED in connection with the alleged liquor scam in the capital.Before the high court, Babu has challenged a trial court’s February 16 order that dismissed his… Read More »
NEW DELHI: SpiceJet CMD Ajay Singh‘s assertion that the airline was not filing for insolvency does not seem to have comforted lessors, who asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday to de-register two more aircraft with the carrier so that they could be repossessed. This week has seen requests for five SpiceJet… Read More »
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has reserved its order on bail plea of Benoy Babu, General Manager of Pernod Ricard India and an accused in Enforcement Directorate’s money laundering probe into the alleged irregularities in the now Delhi’s scrapped excise policy.A bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma reserved the order after hearing the counsel… Read More »
Published By: Kavya Mishra Last Updated: May 13, 2023, 20:31 IST The order was reserved by Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma last week. (File photo/News18) According to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the ED, irregularities were committed while modifying the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy for 2020-21 and undue favours were extended to the licence… Read More »
GUWAHATI: The Gauhati high court has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Indian Youth Congress chief, Srinivas BV, which was filed after the now expelled Assam youth Congress president, Angkita Dutta, lodged an FIR against him alleging harassment.Dismissing the plea on Thursday, Justice Ajit Borthakur said, “It is not a fit case to grant the… Read More »
NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court has asked the central and Delhi governments to respond to a plea seeking recall of all currency notes above Rs 100, restricting cash transactions above Rs 10,000 and linking assets worth more than Rs 50,000 with Aadhaar to check corruption.The plea also wants a curb on cash transactions with respect… Read More »