India

New Delhi, October 19: Suspension of licence stares in the face of crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airline as it extended its lockout till October 23 and submitted a reply to aviation regulator DGCA's show-cause notice on the matter. Reacting to the airline's reply, official sources said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was consulting legal experts on what action -- suspension or

New Delhi, October 19: Expanding the ambit of its 1997 Vishaka verdict, the Supreme Court today directed all regulatory bodies like BCI and MCI, which regulate different professions, to set up a committee to deal with all cases of sexual harassment at the workplace. A three-judge bench headed by Justice R M Lodha directed regulating bodies and all the institutions affiliated to them to implement

New Delhi, October 19: The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Syed Mohammad Ahmed Kazmi, who has been behind bars since March 6 in the Israeli diplomat car attack case. A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir granted bail and directed him to deposit his passport before the concerned authority. Kazmi has also been restrained from going abroad. The bench passed the order on a plea filed

Kolkata, October 19: A West Bengal CPM stalwart is on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Days ahead of embarking on Haj, Abdur Rezzak Mollah, credited for sounding an early warning on the Left Front's disastrous land acquisition policy, insisted his faith in Karl Marx figured way below his absolute devotion to Allah and Prophet Mohammed. Mollah was land and land reforms minister in the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

Mumbai, October 19: Former IPS officer turned lawyer cum activist Y P Singh, on Thursday, launched a frontal attack on Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, his daughter Supriya Sule and nephew Ajit Pawar, charging them of usurping hills near Pune at dirt-cheap price to construct ultra-swanky Lavasa township. In a packed press conference, Singh presented documents to substantiate his

New Delhi, October 19: An expert group has suggested a law to protect privacy of citizens, recommending that both government and private sector organisations should be covered by the proposed legislation, being drafted by the Department of Personnel and Training. Suggesting a “conceptual framework” for the proposed legislation to the Planning Commission on Thursday, the group recommended that

Jaipur, October 19: Even as BJP battles instability in its Karnataka unit along with former CM B S Yeddyurappa threatening to walk out, a bombshell seems to be waiting to explode for the party in Rajasthan, with Vasundhara Raje on the verge of revolting against party's central leadership. Raje, former Rajasthan CM and currently the leader of opposition in the state assembly, is considering to walk

New Delhi, October 19: The Supreme Court has dismissed a case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who had been accused by another politician of kidnapping a girl in Uttar Pradesh and gang-raping her with his friends. The court said that Mr Gandhi's reputation had been damaged by the lawsuit. "The allegation is without substance and without an iota of evidence," the judges said. They fined the

Lucknow, October 18: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court today issued notice to a television news channel directing it to produce entire documents relating to the matter of Dr Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust run by Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid on the basis of which a Public Interest Litigation was filed. The order was issued by the division bench comprising Justice Uma Nath Singh and

New Delhi, October 18: The Supreme Court today slapped a Rs.5 lakh fine on an ex-SP MLA while dismissing as without substance his petition against Rahul Gandhi in which he had alleged that the Congress leader had confined a girl in Uttar Pradesh. "The allegation is without substance and without an iota of evidence," a bench of justices B S Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar said. "The reputation of