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Mumbai, Jul 18 (PTI) A three-storey chawl collapsed in the western suburb of Bandra here in the early hours of Friday, with at least 10 people feared trapped in the debris, civic officials said. As many as seven people have been rescued from the debris so far and admitted to the civic-run Bhabha Hospital, they said. According to preliminary information, chawl number 37 in the Bharat Nagar area of Bandra East collapsed around 5.56 am. Eight fire engines are at the spot along with teams from th ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: State BJP president N Ramchander Rao on Thursday slammed the Congress government and Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for failing to address farmers' issues despite completing 19 months in office. Speaking at the Kisan Morcha state office-bearers' meeting at the BJP headquarters in Hyderabad, he accused the state government of neglecting farmers due to its skewed policies. He urged party workers to collaborate with the Kisan Morcha to highlight farmers' grievances and counter the Cong ...Read More >
BENGALURU: The State Government on Thursday justified the suspension of IGP Vikash Kumar Vikash, who was Additional Commissioner of Police, over the June 4 stampede during the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) victory celebrations, before the Karnataka High Court stating that the cops acted as if they were "servants of RCB" and their "actions embarrassed the government". The senior counsel representing the State Government made this submission before the division bench of Justice SG Pandit and ...Read More >
Shimla, Jul 17 (PTI) Himachal Pradesh High Court has directed the state government to remove encroachments on forest lands, including the fruit-bearing trees, all across the state and not limit it to some areas. The order was passed by a division bench consisting of Justices Vivek Thakur and Bipin C Negi on Wednesday after the Advocate General placed on record fresh instructions issued by Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, informing that 2,456 apple and other fruit trees have been felled f ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Motihari in Bihar Tomorrow on July 18 where he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth Rs 7,200 crore. In a post on X, PM Modi said, 'Will be in Motihari, Bihar, tomorrow, 18th July. Development works worth Rs. 7200 crore will be dedicated to the nation or their foundation stones would be laid. These works cover Software Technology Parks, four new Amrit Bharat trains, road proje ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The "who is responsible for the stadium stampede" debate took an interesting turn in the Karnataka high court Thursday with the state govt alleging the police officers handling the situation on the fateful day had acted like servants of RCB management. However, a suspended IPS officer countered it, saying he was made a scapegoat by the govt.Vikash Kumar Vikash, had challenged the govt's decision to suspend him in the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT-Bengaluru branch), which recent ...Read More >
Bareilly (UP), Jul 17 (PTI) A teacher from Bahedi district, who went viral recently after reciting a poem mentioning Kanwar Yatra, approached the police on Thursday stating a threat to his life from anti-social elements. A case has been registered at Bahedi police station based on a complaint from Dr Rajneesh Kumar Gangwar, a teacher at MGM Inter College in the district. According to Circle Officer Arun Kumar Singh, Gangwar's complaint says that ever since his recitation of the poem 'Tum Kanwa ...Read More >
Patna: The Patna high court on Thursday organised a farewell for Acting Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar, who has been appointed Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court. His oath-taking ceremony is scheduled for July 21.On the same day, Justice Vipul M Pancholi, recently appointed Chief Justice of Patna High Court, will be sworn in at 10.45am at Raj Bhavan.The farewell ceremony took place in the centenary hall in the presence of judges and advocates. Justice Pancholi lauded Justice Kumar and said, " ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a strong and clear message, Shiv Sena supremo and Deputy Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde asked the party ministers, legislators and office bearers to strictly follow party discipline and not compel him to take action. "In the past few days, certain incidents have taken place. People don't point fingers at you -- they point at me for what you do. They ask me: 'What are your MLAs up to? You all are my people. We are one family. Your disrepute is my dis ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the appointment of 1,091 assistant professors and 67 librarians in Punjab, observing "total arbitrariness" in the selection process, and emphasised, "a gross illegality like the present recruitment cannot be ignored". A bench comprising justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran said: "We would like to observe that we are aware of the fact that quashing of the entire recruitment process may cause hardships for the selected candidates, but at th ...Read More >
Kochi, Jul 11 (PTI) Kerala Higher Education Minister R Bindu on Friday defended the government's intervention in the KEAM exam results, calling it a well-intentioned move aimed at ensuring justice for all students. A day after the division bench of the Kerala High Court upheld the decision of the single judge of the same court, striking down a last-minute change made by the state government to the KEAM 2025 entrance exam prospectus, Bindu said the revised formula used to prepare the new rank li ...Read More >
Kolkata: A division bench of the Calcutta high court on Thursday upheld the July 7 order of a single bench to bar identifiable tainted recruits from the 2016 panel -- whose appointments were cancelled by the Supreme Court in April in the bribe-for-job case -- from appearing for the fresh selection test for Bengal government school teachers, lawyers who attended the hearing said. The West Bengal government and WBSSC filed a petition before the division bench of justices Soumen Sen and Smita Das ...Read More >
Kolkata: State school service commission (SSC) and Bengal govt on Wednesday argued against Calcutta High Court's single bench order barring 1,801 "tainted" candidates from participating in the fresh recruitment process. SSC told a division bench that these candidates could not be subjected to "double jeopardy".The last date for applications is July 14. SSC's lawyer and senior MP Kalyan Banerjee argued in the division bench of Justices Soumen Sen and Smita Das De that once Supreme Court scrapped ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court Wednesday issued notices to the state govt and IPS officer Vikash Kumar Vikash on a petition filed by Royal Challengers Sports Private Limited (RCSPL), the owner of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). The company has challenged certain observations made by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Bengaluru bench, in its July 1 order.The tribunal had quashed Vikash's suspension and, in its order, stated that RCB's social media activity was prima facie responsi ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 9 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the petitioner to file a separate plea for a court-monitored probe into the July 4 fire incident at a store in Karol Bagh area in the capital which claimed two lives. The plea was filed in an ongoing matter over flooding in Old Rajinder Nagar in July, 2024 in which three students drowned after a drain burst caused flooding in the basement of a UPSC coaching centre. A division bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Anish ...Read More >
MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to complete investigation into the custodial death of temple guard B Ajithkumar (29) of Madapuram near Thirupuvanam and submit the report on or before August 20 at the jurisdictional court. The CBI director has been directed to appoint an investigating officer (IO) and required staff within one week. Further, based on petitioner's plea, the division bench comprising Justices SM Subraman ...Read More >
Kolkata: School Service Commission and Bengal govt on Tuesday moved a Calcutta High Court division bench, challenging a single judge's order to not allow candidates deemed "tainted" to participate in the fresh recruitment process for 35,726 vacancies. Other candidates have moved the division bench on two demands -- marks allotment and age relaxation.The bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya on Monday refused to allow "tainted candidates" to take part, referring to Supreme Court's observation st ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 8 (PTI) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court Tuesday granted permission to the West Bengal government and the WBSSC to challenge a single bench order regarding the commencement of the selection process for school teachers. The single bench on Monday directed the West Bengal School Service Commission to debar the identified tainted candidates of the 2016 selection process from participating in this year's fresh recruitment procedure, which the WBSSC has recently notified foll ...Read More >
Panaji: The high court has held that a person against whom criminal cases are pending is entitled to the renewal of a passport for ten years. The renewal of the passport will not be restricted to a period of one year, the HC held. It directed the regional passport office in Goa to renew the passport of a man -- who has criminal cases pending against him in two courts -- for the full ten-year period.In May this year, the HC directed the passport office to renew the same man's passport without ins ...Read More >
BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday asked the state government to justify its action of suspending an IPS officer on June 5 on charges of dereliction of duty, after the stampede at Chinnaswamy Stadium during the victory celebrations of Royal Challengers Bengaluru after the IPL tournament. Hearing the appeal filed by the state government against the July 1 order passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), which quashed the suspension of Additional Commissioner of Police (Wes ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: In a significant verdict advancing employee rights, the High Court of Orissa has ruled that maternity benefits must be granted to female employees regardless of their employment status -- whether permanent, temporary, or contractual. A division bench of Justice Dixit Krishna Shripad and Justice Mruganka Sekhar Sahoo upheld a previous single-judge order in favour of Anindita Mishra, a contractual employee with the state's Health and Family Welfare Department. The court came down hea ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The govt Wednesday moved the high court against the order passed by Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) Bengaluru bench, which set aside the suspension of IPS officer Vikash Kumar Vikash in connection with the June 4 stampede at M Chinnaswamy Stadium.The petition was mentioned by advocate-general Shashikiran Shetty before a division bench headed by Justice SG Pandit for urgent hearing, and the bench indicated that it would take it up Thursday.On Tuesday, the tribunal set aside Vikas ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday strongly criticised the city's civic authorities for neglecting the upkeep of public toilets, describing their actions as apathetic and negligent. The court was hearing a petition highlighting the unsanitary and unhygienic conditions of public conveniences across Delhi, particularly impacting the dignity and safety of women. A division bench of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela said the fresh photogr ...Read More >
INDORE: Indore bench of MP High court on Tuesday stayed the order directing the National Testing Agency (NTA) to carry out re-examination of NEET-UG for students from Indore and Ujjain who had alleged power outage during the initial test in May.The stay was granted on a writ appeal filed by NTA sighting various difficulties arising out of the earlier order.The division bench of Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Binod Kumar Dwivedi listed the matter on July 10 and said in the order, "Till all the m ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jun 30 (PTI) A PIL was filed before the Calcutta High Court on Monday seeking a CBI investigation into the alleged gang rape of a law student in her college by an alumnus and two other classmates. The petitioner prayed for direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to hold a preliminary inquiry into the incident as complained of by the alleged survivor and file an interim report before the court. Claiming that the main accused Manojit Mishra has close proximity with the ru ...Read More >
Gurgaon: MCG additional commissioner Yash Jaluka directed bulk waste generators (BWG) across the city to ensure proper disposal of waste by private agencies who are assisting them. Giving these instructions in a meeting held on Friday, he said it is often observed that BWGs hand over their waste to private agencies, which only sort valuable items and dump the remaining waste on roads, drains, vacant land or public places. This, he said, not only affects cleanliness of the city but also poses a t ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL) by farmer leader Sunanda Jayaram challenging the proposed Cauvery Aarti programme near Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) dam, the high court Friday ordered notice to the state govt, Karnataka Neeravari Nigam Ltd, and others. A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice V Kameshwar Rao and Justice CM Joshi directed authorities to submit a detailed response, including measures to ensure safety of the dam, by the next hearing on July 23.Another PIL, ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 27 (ANI): A female student was allegedly gang-raped inside a law college in Kolkata's Kasba on Wednesday evening. The police have arrested all three accused within 24 hours. The three accused, named as Monojit Mishra (31), Zaib Ahmed (19), and Pramit Mukhopadhyay (20), were former students or staff members of the same law college. Also Read | Student Gang-Raped at South Kolkata Law College: Police Arrest 3 Youths for Sexually Assaulting Young Woman Inside La ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that there is nothing on record to show any fraud in Maharashtra assembly elections. Dismissing a plea to declare the Maharashtra election null and void, a division bench held that the case of the petitioner appears to be "quite absurd to say the least". The court also held that the use of EVMs does not take away "free and fair elections" in any manner. Prakash Ambedkar, who appeared as a lawyer for the petitioner in the case, criticised the HC for overlook ...Read More >
New Delhi: Lawyers from the district courts decided on Saturday to roll back their decision to abstain from work in protest against the shifting of the judges of the 34 digital Negotiable Instruments Act courts to the Rouse Avenue courts.A statement released by the All District Courts Bar Association of Delhi on Saturday said that the lawyers' coordination committee met the chief justice of Delhi High Court and was assured that all digital courts would function strictly as digital platforms only ...Read More >
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