KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court has said that the stepson of a government employee is entitled to compassionate appointment on the death of the employee.The petitioner in this case was a man, who had been born out of wedlock to a Kolkata Police traffic constable. After he was born, he was subsequently ‘adopted’ by his biological…

BENGALURU: Holding it to be a case of “reckless registration of crime and a loosely laid offence”, the Karnataka high court has quashed the proceedings in a criminal case against BJP national president JP Nadda.The case was registered by the Harapanahalli police in connection with Nadda’s speech delivered on May 7 in Vijayanagara district of…

BENGALURU: Holding it to be a case of “reckless registration of crime and a loosely laid offence”, the Karnataka high court has quashed the proceedings in a criminal case against BJP national president JP Nadda.The case was registered by the Harapanahalli police in connection with Nadda’s speech delivered on May 7 in Vijayanagara district of…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Saturday pulled up the Gujarat HC for not showing urgency in deciding the abortion plea of a 26-week pregnant woman and posting the hearing 12 days after getting a medical report, which favoured termination. It directed that her medical exam be done once again as the pregnancy is now…

NEW DELHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) vice chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi was arrested on Saturday in Islamabad, the principal opposition party in Pakistan said on X, formerly Twitter.“PTI vice chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has been illegally arrested once again,” the social media post on the party’s account said, adding that he was taken into custody by…

NEW DELHI: Observing that one has to face consequences for abusive and vulgar posts on social media and an apology would not be enough to waive criminal proceedings, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to quash the trial against actor and former Tamil Nadu MLA S Ve Shekher for sharing a post which made indecent…

NEW DELHI: Bihar deputy chief minister and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Friday said the move by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for early hearing of plea against Lalu Prasad‘s bail in fodder scam cases was on expected lines and “these efforts will continue till the elections.”“I have said earlier also that their greatest fear…

The Delhi High Court, through a division bench, has recently confirmed the decision of a single judge who ruled that the esteemed filmmaker Satyajit Ray retained the initial ownership rights to the copyright of the 1966 Bengali film “Nayak“. The bench also clarified that the privilege to adapt the film’s screenplay into a novel was…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s election commission announced on Thursday a fresh delimitation of constituencies on the basis of the latest census, making it almost certain that general elections will not be held within the stipulated 90 days, even as President Arif Alvi swore in a caretaker cabinet of 16 federal ministers, three advisers to the PM equivalent…

JODHPUR: The Rajasthan high court has expressed shock at the chest measurement criterion for female candidates in a recruitment examination, terming it unequivocally arbitrary and outrageous, affront to a woman’s dignity and a violation of right to privacy guaranteed under Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution. Although a single bench of Justice Dinesh Mehta…