Supreme Court

Pegasus snooping row: Pilot demands independent probe

Pilot camp moves high court, challenges notice seeking MLAs’ disqualification from assembly

3:12 pm July 16, 2020

Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court will hear Thursday afternoon a petition filed on behalf of the Sachin Pilot camp, challenging a move to disqualify dissident MLAs from the state assembly. The plea against the disqualification notices sent from the Speaker’s office to Pilot and 18 other Congress MLAs will be heard by Justice Satish Chandra […]

Military commanders of India, China to hold talks on Saturday

Sino-India border tensions: EU says it supports efforts to maintain dialogue channel for peaceful solution

11:27 pm July 15, 2020

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed about the developments on the Sino-India border during the India-EU summit, the European Council president said on Wednesday, asserting that the 27-member bloc supports all efforts to maintain a channel of dialogue for peaceful solution. European Council President Charles Michel made the remarks after the 15th EU-India summit. While the Indian side was led by […]

Tested on any parameter, Rulers of Travancore didn’t lose Shebaitship of Sri Padmanabhaswamy: SC

12:09 am July 14, 2020

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said that having tested on various parameter, such as historical accounts, customary beliefs, deep involvement of ruling family and their connection with the Temple and Sri Padmanabhaswamy made it believe that Rulers of Travancore, till the signing of the Covenant, were in the capacity as Managers or Shebaits of the Temple. The top court […]

Babri trial: I am innocent, allegations baseless, says Kalyan Singh after hearing

11:14 pm July 13, 2020

Lucknow: Senior BJP leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh on Monday accused the then Congress government at the Centre of levelling “false and baseless allegations” against him in the Babri mosque demolition case and said he was “innocent”. “The then Congress government at the Centre levelled false and baseless allegations against me and filed a case out of political animosity,” he told reporters after […]

UP govt forms commission to probe Kanpur ambush, Vikas Dubey’s encounter

10:42 pm July 12, 2020

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday set up one-member commission to probe into the gunning down of Vikas Dubey and his accomplices in police encounters and the ambush earlier in which the alleged gangster killed eight police personnel. UP Governor Anandiben Patel appointed retired Allahabad High Court judge Shashi Kant Agarwal to conduct the probe under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952 and submit […]