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Verdict Thursday in juvenile Dec 16 gang rape accused

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A juvenile justice board (JJB), trying the minor accused in the December 16 brutal gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old girl here, would pronounce its judgement today. The board presided by principal magistrate Geetanjali Goel had reserved its verdict on July 11 after counsel for the accused and the prosecution submitted their clarifications. The juvenile accused in the […]

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Sanjay Dutt’s hope of leaving jail dashed

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Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt’s last hope of leaving the jail were dashed Tuesday as the Supreme Court refused to revisit its March 21 verdict upholding his conviction under the Arms Act and the five-year jail sentence. The actor who surrendered May 16 to serve a three and a half years’ jail term, remaining out of […]

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Sushma Swaraj meets Biden; discusses H1B issue

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Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday met US Vice President Joe Biden, and discussed the issue of H1B visas given to professionals. “I had a very good meeting with Mr Joe Biden, Vice President, United States of America this afternoon,” Swaraj said on her Twitter account. “Amongst other issues, I […]

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SC hears plea on juvenile’s age

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear on July 31 the plea of Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy for a fresh interpretation of the term ‘juvenile’ which he raised in the wake of the December 16 gang-rape incident here. Swamy told the apex court that his petition asking to consider the “mental and intellectual […]

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SC gives a week to CBI in fodder scam

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The Supreme Court Tuesday gave the CBI a week’s time to spell out its stand on Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad’s plea for transfer of trial in a fodder scam case against him to another court. The scam is linked to alleged financial lapses in the Bihar animal husbandry department in the 1990s. An apex court bench of Chief Justice P. […]

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30 mn girls in danger of genital mutilation: UN

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As many as 30 million girls around the globe still face the risk of genital mutilation in the next decade, the Unicef said following a study of 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East. A total of 125 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation, Xinhua cited the […]

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Arrest warrant issued against Bihar school principal

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A Bihar court Monday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against the absconding principal of the government primary school in Saran district where 23 children died after eating contaminated food last week, an official said. Saran District Magistrate Abhijit Sinha said Chapra district civil court issued the warrant against Meena Devi, the headmistress of the school […]

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SC restores rules restricting cigarette and tobacco ads

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The Supreme Court on Monday set aside the seven-year-old Bombay high court order putting on hold the rules that restricted the scale of advertisement of cigarettes and tobacco products at the point of their warehouse or retail outlets. The apex court also asked the central and the state governments to vigorously implement the rules. Describing […]

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Match-fixing case: Police file charge sheet after 13 years

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Thirteen years after the match fixing scandal involving former South African captain Hansie Cronje, Delhi Police Monday filed the charge sheet in a court here. In the charge sheet, Delhi Police named Cronje, who was killed in a plane crash in 2002, and five others, including Kishan Kumar, the brother of murdered T-Series founder Gulshan […]

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Apex court expert panel says no to GM crops

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A Supreme Court-appointed technical expert committee Monday recommended an indefinite moratorium on field trials of Genetically Modified (GM) crops till the time the government comes out with a proper regulatory and safety mechanism. The expert committee in its report said there should be a moratorium on field trials for Genetically Modified food crops intended for commercialization […]

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SC frowns upon non-recovery of railway loss due to stir

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The Supreme Court Monday frowned upon the central government for not doing anything to recover nearly Rs.30 crore loss suffered by the railways during a blockade by a community in Haryana in 2011. The court also moaned that there was a culture in the country to commit atrocities on the weak and the poor. Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice V. Gopala […]

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Maoists to be charged under SC/SC atrocity prevention act

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Maoists in tribal areas in Chhattisgarh will now be also tried under the sections of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 also for their brutal acts of terror, the state government said on  Friday. A decision to this effect was taken in Raipur at a meeting of the state-level vigilance and […]

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