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‘Can’t Be Grand Generalisation For Giving Bail’ NEW DELHI: Amid an escalating fight between two benches over whether delay in trial entitles those facing grave charges under UAPA to bail, Centre on Friday put a pointed poser to Supreme Court – could dreaded terrorists like Ajmal Kasab and Hafiz Saeed be allowed bail just because…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a PIL by parents and teachers in NCR and Chennai challenging the validity of CBSE‘s recent policy mandating three languages, two of which must be Indian for Class 9 and said it would lead to chaos and confusion.Seeking urgent hearing of the PIL, senior advocate Mukul…

NEW DELHI: Govt has stepped in to unclog piling up of containers at India’s busiest container port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) (Mumbai), and has set up a panel of top officials to remove bottlenecks at all the 12 major ports. It will meet every week or fortnight to address concerns faced by businesses.The issue…

NEW DELHI: Observing that a person is legally entitled to dispose of his property as he wishes, Supreme Court has ruled that a will cannot be invalidated just on the ground that legal heirs have been denied a share, reports Amit Anand Choudhary.A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Vijay Bishnoi said the exclusion of…

NEW DELHI: India and Cyprus upgraded their ties to a strategic partnership, launched a roadmap for defence cooperation and signed an MoU for establishing a joint working group on counterterrorism as PM Narendra Modi hosted President Nikos Christodoulides for talks. Modi said ties with Cyprus, which currently holds the EU Council presidency, were based on…

NEW DELHI: Accepting the explanation of three academics – Prof Michel Danino, Suparna Diwakar and Alok Prasanna Kumar, the Supreme Court Friday lifted the life ban on their association with academic exercises in govt-run universities and institutions.The ban was imposed on them by the SC on March 11 after it took serious umbrage at a…

SRINAGAR: BJP launched Friday a poster campaign targeting Omar Abdullah while he is reportedly on a private visit to London, describing the J&K chief minister as “missing” and seeking “information about his whereabouts”.The posters were shared on J&K BJP’s official social media handles and circulated on WhatsApp. The posters say the “missing person holds the…

Cabinet secretary T V Somanathan NEW DELHI: For the first time, government has carried out a performance assessment of ministries on various administrative parameters, including delays in clearing of files, grievance redressal and responses to Cabinet proposals. Cabinet secretary T V Somanathan, on Thursday, presented the ranking of ministries and departments on each of these…

NEW DELHI: India on Friday successfully test-fired short-range ballistic missile ‘Agni-1’ from the integrated test range at Odisha’s Chandipur, the defence ministry said.The launch validated all operational and technical parameters, it said.“The test was carried out under the aegis of the Strategic Forces Command,” the ministry said.The Agni 1 to 4 missiles have ranges from…

In a bid to expand the space infrastructure in the country amid growing global competition in the sector, the Department of Space has approved setting up of common technical facilities (CTFs) in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. These facilities will be equipped with high-end testing, validation and integration infrastructure. The govts of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu…