Upset with the Tamil Nadu government for going back on its assurances, the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) Monday announced that it would resume an indefinite hunger strike from May 1 against the two 1,000 MW plants at Kudankulam. "We have decided to go on hunger protest once again from ...

A Delhi court will April 27 deliver its judgment in a 10-year-old graft case against former Bharatiya Janata Party president Bangaru Laxman for allegedly accepting a bribe from a fake arms dealer. Additional Sessions Judge Kanwaljeet Arora had April 2 reserved his order in the case. The case dates back to 2001, ...

Criticising the delay in delivering justice, Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari Saturday said the poor people suffered the most due to delayed justice. "It is usually the individual citizen and the poor and marginalised among them, who bear the burnt of inadequate or non-existent Alternate Dispute Resolution mechanisms and extended judicial ...

A Delhi court Saturday reserved for April 26 its order on a defamation case filed by Lt. Gen. (retd) Tejinder Singh against army chief Gen VK Singh, who has accused him of bribery. Metropolitan Magistrate Jasjeet Kaur listed the matter for order on the summoning of Army Chief and others after ...

Punjab has banned the manufacture, import and use of pesticides causing cancer in Malwa region of the state, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said Friday. The decision was taken based on directions by NHRC, which took suo motu cognizance of a media report, alleging that the disease of cancer among farmers ...

The Calcutta High Court on Friday banned the entry of devotees to the 'Garbha Griha' (sanctum sanctorum) of Kalighat's Kali Temple, saying the large number of visits was defacing the shrine. A division bench of Chief Justice J.N. Patel and Justice Sambuddha Chakrabarti, however, allowed any two priests on a day ...

The Delhi High Court Friday directed the state government's education department to complete admission process for vacant seats for students from the economically weaker section (EWS) during the summer vacations to enable them to attend school after reopening in July 2012. The court's order came after the government's status report informed ...

Acting Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court Manjula Chellur on Friday gave directions to all the courts in the state for an immediate inquiry into the use of stamp papers, after a massive fraud of fake stamp papers was detected at a lower court here. A media report earlier this ...

The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted a permanent injunction against publishing or distributing the contents of a CD allegedly depicting Congress spokesperson and senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi in a compromising position. The court's direction came after Mukesh Kumar Lal, Singhvi's former driver who allegedly prepared the CD, informed the ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the government to set a time frame for deciding death row convicts' mercy petitions pending before it. "You give us the time frame for deciding the mercy petitions which are pending before you," the apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya ...