[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Apply emergency brakes or trail a moving vehicle too closely at your own risk as Supreme Court has said that using brakes all of a sudden in the middle of a road or not maintaining sufficient distance from a running vehicle make a person liable for an accident if it occurs.While adjudicating…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Observing that trial in cash-for-job scam, in which former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji is being prosecuted, could be the most mammoth trial in the country with over 2,000 accused, Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the state to place before it a prosecutorial plan on how to go about the case…
[ad_1] BAREILLY: Pocso court judge Devendra Nath Singh sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous punishment for kidnaping and raping a minor girl in 2011. The court relied on educational documents to determine that the survivor was a minor (15 years and 15 days) at the time of the crime though the medical reports…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on Justice Yashwant Varma’s petition challenging both an in-house inquiry committee report recording his alleged complicity in the case regarding discovery of sacks of cash from his official residence and the then CJI Sanjiv Khanna’s recommendation for his removal from judgeship.Rejecting his plea for a…
[ad_1] RAIPUR: A sessions court in Chhattisgarh’s Durg disposed of Wednesday the bail pleas of two Kerala-based Catholic nuns arrested for alleged human trafficking and forced religious conversion, citing lack of jurisdiction. The court directed the petitioners to approach the designated NIA court in Bilaspur for relief.Nuns Preethi Merry and Vandana Francis, along with tribal…
[ad_1] Nasa’s deputy associate administrator Casey Swails, in presence of Isro chairman V Narayanan, addresses scientists after successful launch of GSLV-F16 NEW DELHI: The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) programme cost the US and India over $1.5 billion. But there is an important question to be asked: What was the need for such a huge…
[ad_1] SRINAGAR: India, taking advantage of its keeping in abeyance the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, floated on Wednesday international tenders for construction of the Sawalkote Hydroelectric Project on the Chenab river a little over 40 years after it was conceived.The project, designated by govt as one of national importance, had suffered long delays due…
[ad_1] JAMMU: Soldiers gunned down two terrorists early Wednesday during a fierce gunfight near the LoC in Poonch district of J&K, foiling an infiltration attempt based on joint intelligence inputs from military and police sources.The shooting started after troops spotted suspicious movement in a forested area close to the LoC. “The operation was based on…
[ad_1] AI-generated Image (Representational) BATHINDA: Regional policy experts discussed country positions and negotiation dynamics of the Asia Pacific region, in a briefing by Break free from Plastic (BFFP), the global movement working to achieve a future free from plastic pollution, ahead of the INC 5.2 negotiations for the Global Plastic Treaty in Geneva, Switzerland from…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Punjab government will implement a drug prevention curriculum in all government schools across the state starting August 1, targeting students in grades 9 to 12. The initiative aims to curb drug use through education and is part of a broader strategy to address both the supply and demand sides of drug…