NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday challenged in the Delhi High Court the anticipatory bail granted to Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in a money laundering case, claiming non-compliance with bail conditions. The ED’s counsel said he will file an additional affidavit showing breach of bail conditions by…

NEW DELHI: Reigning champion Vinesh Phogat will miss the Hangzhou Asian Games after sustaining an injury on her left knee during training on August 13 that will require surgery, she announced on Tuesday. Vinesh is the defending champion in the women’s 53kg category. She had received a direct entry for the Games by the Indian…

BHOPAL/INDORE: FIRs were registered against AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and former chief minister Kamal Nath in Indore and Bhopal close to midnight on Saturday over one of her tweets alleging corruption in the Madhya Pradesh government. State BJP leaders had filed complaints against Priyanka and Nath in the morning. Cases have been registered…

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court recently directed that a foetus born alive during an emergency abortion past the 27th week of pregnancy on a woman with a hole in her heart must not be taken out of Parel’s KEM Hospital. “The infant is not to be taken out of the hospital against medical advice,” said…

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government on Friday submitted to the Punjab and Haryana high court that the incident of Nuh violence was not a case of “ethnic cleansing“. The state also claimed before the HC that due procedure under the law had been followed before carrying out the demolition drive in Nuh and Gurgaon. The state,…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to former Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on medical grounds in a money laundering case. Malik — who had moved the top court against the Bombay high court’s July 13 order denying him bail on medical grounds in the case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate…

MADURAI: The Madras high court emphasised Thursday the “right to vent” for employees who may have concerns with their management, while quashing a charge memo against a Tamil Nadu Grama Bank employee for posting on WhatsApp critical messages mocking the bank’s administrative decisions. Justice GR Swaminathan said it’s natural for members of an organisation to…

NEW DELHI: PM Modi Thursday pledged the country’s support to the people in trouble-torn Manipur, calling the northeast a “piece of our heart”. “India stands with Manipur. This House stands with Manipur,” he said, replying to the debate on the no-trust motion brought against the government. “We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the women of Manipur. The…

LUCKNOW: Forty-three years after Moradabad witnessed one of the bloodiest communal clashes in UP after Partition, the report of the Justice Mathura Prasad Saxena judicial commission constituted to look into the August 13, 1980 flare-up was tabled in the assembly Tuesday. The report concludes that the communal frenzy that officially claimed 83 lives was the…

KOCHI: Any non-consensual sex-selective surgery on a minor is tantamount to violating the child’s dignity and privacy, the Kerala high court said while dismissing a plea by the parents of a seven-year-old with ambiguous genitalia to allow a genital reconstructive procedure so that they could raise their child as a female. “Granting such permission may…