13-year-old child injured in Pak shelling at LoC

The Delhi High Court on Monday allowed the AAP government to procure 500 standard floor buses for the national capital. A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao made it clear that the standard floor buses, proposed to be procured, should have hydraulic lifts for easy access to differently-abled persons. The bench dismissed the petition by a differently-abled person, Nipun Malhotra, who had filed two PILs challenging the Delhi government and the DTC's decision to buy standard f

86 Describing as "unacceptable" the existence of 5,133 vacancies of judges in "Higher Judicial Service" and "Lower Judicial Service", the Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of the State governments and the High Courts whether the time for the ongoing recruitment of 4,180 judicial officers could be shortened.Passing a suo motu order on the huge number of vacancies in the subordinate judiciary across the country, the bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul sough

The bickerings at the top in CBI took a new turn on Monday with the agency arresting its DSP Devender Kumar following bribery allegations against CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana, the number two who is at war with the Director Alok Verma.Kumar's arrest comes a day after the agency registered an FIR against Asthana and several others for allegedly accepting bribes to settle a case of meat exporter Moin Qureshi, who is facing multiple cases of money laundering and corruption. The CBI has allege

TDP president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu Monday took stock
of the party's preparations for the December 7 Assembly elections in Telangana. Naidu, who is now based in Vijayawada where AP's capital city is coming up, held meetings with members of the Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) polit bureau, central committee, district unit presidents and other party leaders in Telangana. TDP is part of the "grand alliance" of opposition partie

In the wake of the CBI registering a corruption case against its Special Director Rakesh Asthana, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said the BJP has turned the CBI into a "national disgrace"."During the Congress rule the Supreme Court had termed the CBI a caged parrot, Modi government has surpassed the Congress record and in its greed to victimize political opponents, it has turned the agency into a national disgrace," he said in a tweet.The CBI on Sunday announced filing the case a

Nearly 50,000 people have lost their lives between 2015 and 2017 on railway tracks after being hit by trains, according to official data from the Indian Railways. A train mowed down at least 59 Dussehra revellers as they were watching a Ravana effigy being burnt while standing on railway tracks near Amritsar on October 19, leading to questions how the national transporter could prevent such deaths.
Data provided by the railway's states, 49,790 deaths happened because people were hit by trains on

The Delhi High Court on Monday allowed the state government to purchase 500 standard-floor buses that can ply on the city's outskirts where the roads are in poor condition.A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V. Kameswar Rao, however, said these buses should have hydraulic lifts, which will help the differently-abled people easily board and deboard.The court dismissed the pleas of Nipun Malhotra, a differently-abled person, who has opposed government's decision to buy the buses.Ma