SC on Tuesday granted interim protection from arrest to Abhishek Upadhyay. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday granted interim protection from arrest to Abhishek Upadhyay who claimed he was vindictively booked under SC/ST Act by Ghaziabad police for an alleged road rage incident just because he had exposed embezzlement of donations offered by devotees at the…
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Tejpal, sought three weeks’ time to surrender. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday directed former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal to first surrender within three weeks, saying that his appeal against conviction and 10-year imprisonment in a rape case would be heard only thereafter.Justice Alok Aradhe rejected Tejpal’s plea for exemption…
In Jan, railway board chairperson Satish Kumar had said the project cost had increased by around 83% to Rs 1.98 lakh crore. (Representative image) NEW DELHI: The cost of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train has been revised to around Rs 2.1 lakh crore, nearly double the original cost of approximately Rs 1.1 lakh crore. The proposal…
It was supposed to be a simple evening out. Sonam Midha, an Indian woman living in Japan, had gone to a restaurant with a friend on rented bicycles. Before walking in, she tucked her purse into the bicycle basket outside, a casual, thoughtless moment of the kind we all have dozens of times a day….
Defence minister Rajnath Singh has given the green light for the transfer of missile technology from the DRDO. NEW DELHI: In a big development to empower Indian private players with new missile technologies to achieve govt’s vision of self-reliance in defence production, defence minister Rajnath Singh has “approved the transfer of DRDO-developed technologies of all…
The SG said Centre was not seeking review or modification of the judgement. NEW DELHI: Seeking two years to frame creamy layer criteria for OBCs, Centre Tuesday requested Supreme Court for an early hearing on its application against retrospective implementation of SC’s March 11 judgement, which disallowed this classification of OBC candidates based on the…
Texas Roadhouse said they investigated and found no such private Facebook group where white staff discuss about spitting in the food of Black guests. Texas Roadhouse clapped back at the viral social media claim that its white servers were discussing spitting in Black customers’ food in a private Facebook group as a hoax and confirmed…
This was new information for SC, which was concerned by pendency of 37 lakh appeals NEW DELHI: In a new twist to the simmering controversy over the West Bengal SIR, Supreme Court was informed Tuesday that against 27-lakh odd deletions from voters’ list because of ‘logical discrepancy’ only seven lakh filed appeals seeking inclusion of…
Aristotle (Image: Wikipedia) The pursuit of pleasure is often treated as one of life’s simplest goals, but Aristotle offered a more measured view of what it means to live wisely. In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle wrote: “The man of practical wisdom aims at avoiding pain, not at attaining pleasure.” The statement appears in his discussion…
For generations, a two-acre plot of land along the Mississippi–Tennessee state line served as both sanctuary and survival for Krystal Polk’s family. They raised chickens and pigs, harvested onions and herbs, and traded homegrown peaches for pears. But after what is reported to be decades of weathering racial hostility and hardship to keep the property…