India

Mumbai, Feb 9: President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said the pendency of 31 million cases in courts across the country was very disturbing. "I am very disturbed to find a staggering 31 million cases pending in various courts all over the country and hope the judiciary would do its best to clear them," Mukherjee said, inaugurating the sesquicentennial celebrations of the Advocates' Association of

New Delhi, Feb 8: Eminent lawyer Soli Sorabjee today backed the Delhi government's stand that there was no need to take the prior consent of the Centre before introduction of its Jan Lokpal Bill in the Assembly, which it plans to do next week. In his opinion given to the Delhi government he said that there are "serious legal infirmities" in the Transaction Business Rules (TBR) of 2002 which

New Delhi, Feb 8: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday threatened to "go to any extent" over his pet anti-graft legislation, the Jan Lokpal Bill, which is opposed both by the Congress, whose continued support is essential for the survival of his government, as well as the BJP. "Corruption is extremely important issue and I will go to any extent," he said during an interaction with PTI

Imphal, Feb 8: BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Saturday said the death of Arunachal Pradesh student Nido Tania in Delhi is a matter of national shame and asked the Centre and the Delhi government to shun their blame game on the issue and ensure justice for him. He said such incidents further alienate the people of the northeastern states, which due to the "unfortunate policies"

New Delhi, Feb 8: A controversy has erupted over the reported remarks of CBI chief Ranjit Sinha that the UPA government would have been happy if BJP leader Amit Shah was named as accused in Ishrat Jahan case charge sheet, a comment which he has denied. A Delhi daily reported that Sinha has said that UPA government would have been happy had the encounter charge sheet mentioned close aide of BJP's

New Delhi, Feb 8: Former Additional Solicitor General K N Bhatt today said he was not consulted on the Jan Lokpal Bill but only on the validity of some rules. Bhatt was reacting to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's statement yesterday that the government had taken opinion of four lawyers including Bhatt and all of them were of the view that the Home Ministry order was "unconstitutional". The Home

Mumbai, Feb 8: Temper tantrums, drunken rants, physical and verbal abuse: these are some of the occupational hazards that female cabin crew face in airplanes. Jet Airways recorded 84 incidents of passengers behaving indecently with airhostesses, while Indigo recorded 48, the Civil Aviation Ministry said in reply to a query in the Lok Sabha this month. The national carrier recorded a considerably

New Delhi, Feb 8: Notwithstanding opposition from within Congress and outside, the Union Cabinet today cleared the Telangana Bill which will be introduced in Parliament on February 12. The controversial Telangana bill will be presented in the Rajya Sabha in the present form and the government will move 32 amendments when it is taken up for consideration. The proposed legislation does not provide

New Delhi, Feb 7: In an U-turn in Kerala fishermen killing case, the Union Home Ministry today asked NIA to dilute the charges against the two accused Italian marines from murder to violence, thus sparing them from the possibility of getting death penalty. Revising its earlier decision, the Home Ministry gave sanction to National Investigation Agency (NIA) to prosecute the Italian marines under

New Delhi, Feb 7: As BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi reaches out to Muslims through a business conclave for them in Gujarat, Congress today said if he is really keen on taking everyone along, then he should severe ties with RSS. Rubbishing BJP's attempts to woo Muslim community, Law Minister Kapil Sibal said BJP seemingly has "one face for the elections while there are various other