Supreme Court

S Korea Supreme Court orders retrial for Samsung heir

12:41 pm August 29, 2019

Seoul: South Korea’s top court on Thursday ordered a new trial for Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, who was convicted of offences including bribery and embezzlement in connection with the scandal that brought down former president Park Geun-hye. Lee was jailed for five years in 2017 but freed a year later after an appeals court dismissed […]

SC allows Sitaram Yechury to visit JK to meet party colleague Yusuf Tarigami

12:34 pm August 28, 2019

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury to visit Jammu and Kashmir to meet his party colleague and former MLA Mohammed Yusuf Tarigami in the state. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, however, directed Yechury to only meet Tarigami and not use the visit for any political […]

Dalit activists to sit on indefinite dharna from Aug 30

8:42 pm August 27, 2019

New Delhi: Dalit activists on Tuesday said they will sit on an indefinite dharna from August 30 at Jantar Mantar to demand rebuilding of a Ravidas temple at its original place in south Delhi’s Tughlakabad area. A Ravidas temple was demolished by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on August 10 on the directions of the […]

Budget for the rich, of the rich, by the rich: Chidambaram

INX Media scam: CBI seeks 5 more days of custodial interrogation of Chidambaram

8:39 pm August 26, 2019

New Delhi: Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram was Monday produced before a Delhi Court on expiry of his four-day CBI custody in the INX Media corruption case. He was produced before the court after the Supreme Court refused to entertain his plea challenging the Delhi High Court order which had dismissed his […]

Chidambaram moves SC for listing of plea challenging trial court’s remand order

11:31 am August 26, 2019

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday moved the Supreme Court, saying his plea challenging the trial court’s order remanding him to CBI custody in the INX medica case has not been listed for hearing today despite the apex court’s direction on August 23. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Chidambaram, mentioned the […]