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"We find no merit in the present petition. The same is accordingly dismissed," a bench of justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja said. A detailed copy of the verdict was awaited. James approached the high court against a trial court's August 7, 2025, order denying his request to be released from prison. He challenged Article 17 of the India-UAE extradition treaty, allowing prosecution for "connected offences" as well. Advocate Aljo K Joseph, who represented James, said that he had undergone ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday rejected a plea filed by alleged middleman Christian Michel James in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam case seeking his release from jail. A bench of justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja said that the plea, which also challenged provisions of the India-UAE extradition treaty, had no merit. James, a British national, assailed Article 17 of the treaty, signed in 1999, which allows the requesting state (in this case India) to pros ...Read More >
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has fixed April 15 as the next date of hearing in the Rahul Gandhi citizenship case. The court conducted a hearing in the chamber of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi for around two hours on Monday. Two officials from the Union ministry of home affairs arrived here from New Delhi with documents related to the case. Senior advocate SB Pandey, assistant solicitor general of India, represented the Union government in court. He was assisted by government couns ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition by alleged middleman Christian Michel James in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam case seeking his release from jail. A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja said there was no merit in the petition by the British national, who was extradited from Dubai in December 2018. A detailed copy of the verdict is awaited. In his petition, James assailed a provision of the India-UAE extradition treaty. He also ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition by alleged middleman Christian Michel James in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam case seeking his release from jail. A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja said there was no merit in the petition by the British national, who was extradited from Dubai in December 2018. A detailed copy of the verdict is awaited. In his petition, James assailed a provision of the India-UAE extradition tr ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition by alleged middleman Christian Michel James in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam case seeking his release from jail. A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja said there was no merit in the petition by the British national, who was extradited from Dubai in December 2018. A detailed copy of the verdict is awaited. In his petition, James assailed a provision of the India-UAE extradition tr ...Read More >
Bahraich (UP), Apr 7 (PTI) A court here has sentenced two British nationals to six months' imprisonment for illegally entering India from Nepal, officials said on Tuesday. Chief Judicial Magistrate Pratibha Chowdhry on Monday also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on each of the convicts. In case of default in payment of the fine, they will have to undergo an additional three months' imprisonment. The court, however, granted them bail after pronouncement of the sentence on the condition that they w ...Read More >
Bahraich: The court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) in Bahraich has sentenced two foreign nationals, who infiltrated through the India-Nepal border in UP, to six months imprisonment each. Additionally, a fine of Rs 50,000 has been imposed on each of them. If the fine is not paid, they will have to serve an additional three months in prison. According to the prosecution, on November 15, 2025, the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) apprehended two foreign nationals at the Rupaidiha check post on th ...Read More >
Lucknow, Apr 7 (PTI) The Allahabad High Court has expressed reluctance to examine records produced by the central government in connection with the alleged dual citizenship controversy involving Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi. The matter was heard by the Lucknow bench of the high court in the chamber on Monday after the Centre submitted that the issue was sensitive. The next hearing has been scheduled for April 15. In its order uploaded on the court's websit ...Read More >
Bahraich: A court here has sentenced two British nationals to six months' imprisonment for illegally entering India from Nepal, officials said on Tuesday. Chief Judicial Magistrate Pratibha Chowdhry on Monday also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on each of the convicts. In case of default in payment of the fine, they will have to undergo an additional three months' imprisonment. The court, however, granted them bail after pronouncement of the sentence on the condition that they will not leave the c ...Read More >
The 76-year-old Langford was found unconscious in his room at a hotel in south Mumbai on Monday morning, following which he was rushed to a hospital by the hotel management. He was declared dead on arrival, an official said. "The IPL Governing Council and all stakeholders involved express their deepest condolences on the untimely demise of Mr. Ian Williams Langford, a dedicated broadcast engineer, who was an integral part of our broadcast operations. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family ...Read More >
Mumbai, March 31 (IANS) The Board for Cricket Control of India (BCCI) has expressed deep sorrow following the untimely death of veteran broadcast engineer Ian William Langford, who was part of the Indian Premier League's (IPL) 2026 production crew in Mumbai. In an official statement, the board said, "The IPL Governing Council and all stakeholders involved express their deepest condolences on the untimely demise of Mr. Ian Williams Langford, a dedicated broadcast engineer, who was an integral pa ...Read More >
LUCKNOW The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Monday directed the ministry of home affairs (MHA) to present all records in connection with a dual citizenship complaint against the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress MP from Rae Bareli Rahul Gandhi. Justice Rajeev Singh gave the direction in a petition filed by S Vignesh Shishir, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker from Karnataka, who challenged a January 28 order of a special MP/MLA court in Lucknow, which rejected his p ...Read More >
A special court has pardoned Maiank Mehta, Nirav Modi's brother-in-law. He is now an approver in the PNB scam case. The court granted his plea on September 22. Mehta must provide a full disclosure of all circumstances. He voluntarily came to India in 2021. This development could offer new information into the multi-crore fraud. A special court has granted Maiank Mehta, brother-in-law of absconding businessman Nirav Modi, a pardon in the case linked to the multi-million dollar Punjab National Ba ...Read More >
The Supreme Court has asked the Central government and Directorate General of Civil Aviation to respond to the Air India plane crash incident in Ahmedabad. The court wants a fair and quick investigation by experts. Safety Matters Foundation seeks an independent probe into the accident. They claim the initial report is incomplete and lacks transparency. The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) "for the limited purpose of ens ...Read More >
Mysore/Mysuru: The decades-old Registered Post service of the Postal Department is poised to enter the pages of history, with the Union Ministry of Communications -- the authority overseeing Telecommunications and Postal Services in India -- officially discontinuing the service effective Sept. 1. This decision marks the end of an era for a service that has been integral to secure postal communication for decades. The Ministry has announced that the Registered Post facility will now be merged wi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -- India's Fauja Singh, believed to be the world's oldest distance runner, has died in a road accident at age 114, his biographer said on Tuesday. Singh, an Indian-born British citizen who was nicknamed the "Turbaned Tornado," died after being hit by a vehicle in the Jalandhar district of northwestern Punjab state on Monday. "My Turbaned Tornado is no more," Fauja's biographer Khushwant Singh wrote on X. "He was struck by an unidentified vehicle ... in his village, Bias, while crossi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI - India's Mr Fauja Singh, believed to be the world's oldest distance runner, has died in a road accident at age 114, his biographer said July 15. Mr Singh, an India-born British national, nicknamed the "Turbaned Tornado", died after being hit by a vehicle in Punjab state's Jalandhar district on July 14. "My Turbaned Tornado is no more," Mr Singh's biographer, Mr Khushwant Singh, wrote on X. "He was struck by an unidentified vehicle... in his village, Bias, while crossing the road. R ...Read More >
New Delhi: It has been nearly a month since June 12, the day the world watched in shock as an Air India Boeing 787-8, bound for London, crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. The crash killed 241 passengers and crew members, including Vishwas Kumar Ramesh's brother, Ajay, along with 34 others on the ground. However, for Vishwas, the nightmare refuses to fade. As the sole survivor of the disaster, he has become a symbol of both miraculous ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -- A preliminary report released Saturday by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has revealed that the engine fuel control switches aboard the Air India flight that crashed last month in Gujarat were moved to the "cut-off" position just seconds before the aircraft plunged into a hostel, killing 260 people. The UK-bound flight slammed into a medical college hostel in western Gujarat shortly after takeoff, with only one passenger surviving after reportedly leaping from ...Read More >
New Delhi, India - July 12, 2025 - Air India has publicly acknowledged the preliminary report released by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) concerning the tragic AI171 accident. In a social media post on Friday, the airline stated, "We stand in solidarity with the families and those affected by the AI171 accident." The airline reiterated its commitment to supporting those impacted by the crash, adding, "We continue to mourn the loss and are fully committed to providing supp ...Read More >
Denpasar (Indonesia), Jun 5 (AP) Indonesian authorities on the tourist island of Bali on Thursday announced the arrests of several foreign nationals, including an Indian, Australian and an American, on suspicion of possessing narcotics, charges that could carry the death penalty. Customs officers at Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport arrested an Indian national with the initials HV, who was carrying a duffel bag, in the customs and excise inspection area on May 29. The officers found narco ...Read More >
Guwahati, May 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi launched a scathing attack on Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday, citing recent Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids as "evidence of illegal coal mining operations" in the state, and also issued a clarification on his 'links' in Pakistan. Speaking to the media in Delhi for the first time after becoming the Assam unit chief of Congress, Gogoi pointed to the April 24 raids conducted across Assam and Meghalaya, where the E ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on a bail plea of British citizen Christian Michel, accused in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Prasanna B Varale issued a notice to the CBI and sought a response to Michel's plea within four weeks. On September 25, the Delhi High Court denied his plea for bail. Thereafter, he approached the top court seeking bail. Earlier, a ...Read More >
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