CHENNAI: Courts in TN and Puducherry can display portraits of only Gandhiji and the Tamil poet-saint Thiruvalluvar, the Madras high court has said. In a circular to all district courts, the registrar-general of the high court also instructed the Kancheepuram principal district judge to persuade the Bar association at Alandur to remove portraits of B…

CHENNAI: Courts in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry can display portraits of only Mahatma Gandhi and the Tamil poet-saint Thiruvalluvar, the Madras high court has said in a circular in which it instructed the Kancheepuram principal district judge to persuade the bar association at Alandur to remove portraits of BR Ambedkar from the entrance hall of…

CHENNAI: Courts in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry can display portraits of only Mahatma Gandhi and the Tamil poet-saint Thiruvalluvar, the Madras high court has said in a circular in which it instructed the Kancheepuram principal district judge to persuade the bar association at Alandur to remove portraits of BR Ambedkar from the entrance hall of…

NEW DELHI: Courts can’t sit in appeal over decision taken by wrestling experts to give direct entry to top wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat for Asian Games, more so when there is a greater risk of injury being caused during trials, the Delhi high court said Saturday. Refusing to interfere with the exemption granted…

NEW DELHI: Talented youngster Antim Panghal made a statement by winning the 53kg trials just moments after her plea challenging Vinesh Phogat‘s exemption was dismissed, while Mansi Ahlawat outperformed expectations by securing her place in the Indian team for the Asian Games from a 57kg field that included two World Championship medallists on Saturday. Panghal,…

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Saturday refused to interfere with top wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia‘s exemption from Asian Games trials. Justice Subramonium Prasad dismissed the plea filed by Under-20 World Champion Antim Panghal and Under-23 Asian Champion Sujeet Kalkal against Phogat and Punia’s straight entry into the tournament.“Writ petition is dismissed,”…

NEW DELHI: Journalists Tarun Tejpal, Anirudh Behl, Mathew Samual and M/S Tehelka.Com have been ordered by the Delhi high court to pay Rs 2 crore as damages to now retired Army officer Major General MS Ahluwalia in a defamation case. Tehelka had published an “expose” in 2001 stating that Ahluwalia was allegedly involved in corruption…

VARANASI: A local court directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Friday to conduct a scientific investigation of the Gyanvapi complex, adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath temple, to determine whether it was constructed over a pre-existing structure of a Hindu temple. But the survey will not cover the “wuzukhana (ablution pond)” area of the complex,…

DEHRADUN: Quashing rape charges levelled against a man, Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma of the Uttarakhand high court said, “In today’s modern society, offence under IPC Section 376 (rape) is being misused by women as a weapon as soon as some differences arise with their partner to duress upon the other party for many unknown factors.”…

NEW DELHI: The Centre has made it clear that state waqf boards cannot declare members of Ahmadiya sect of Muslims to be ‘kafirs’ or non-Muslims and their mosques as non-waqf property. The communication on Friday followed representation by Ahmadiya Muslims protesting against resolution passed by Andhra Pradesh waqf board, based on “fatwas” issued by Jamaitul…