New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday deferred the hearing on the Meghalaya government’s plea challenging the grant of bail to Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the Raja Raghuvanshi honeymoon murder case, till July 14 and directed the state authorities to place on record the arrest memo and other documents supplied to the accused at the time of her arrest.A Bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Shree Chandrashekhar did not pass any interim order staying the bail granted to Son…
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Mumbai, July 8 (IANS) Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday assured the State Legislative Council that strict action will be taken against those causing environmental degradation in Mahabaleshwar and Matheran. He also guaranteed that the state government will ensure these lands are not converted to ‘Freehold’ (Class-1) under any circumstances. He said that the state government has taken serious note of illegal decisions regarding the leasing of government lands in th…
Mumbai, July 7 (IANS) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday informed the Legislative Assembly that out of the 138 sanctioned fast-track courts in Maharashtra, only 58 are currently functional. The government is continuously following up with the High Court to make judges available for the remaining courts. Replying to a question raised by MLA Rahul Kul, Fadnavis stated that while plans were made to establish a total of 138 fast-track courts across the state, only 58 could be made operation…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 4 (IANS) The Kerala government’s decision to withdraw and redraft a controversial order granting prosecution sanction in the alleged multi-crore cashew import corruption case has sparked questions over whether entrenched interests within the Secretariat continue to influence key decisions despite a change in political leadership.Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan is yet to respond to the controversy surrounding the order, which was issued by the Industries Department sanction…
Mumbai, July 3 (IANS) The death of elderly man Aslam Shaikh, who fell into an open manhole during heavy rains in Mumbai, triggered a political storm on Friday, with the Congress terming the incident an administrative failure, while the BJP and Shiv Sena blamed years of mismanagement by the previous Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) administration. Speaking to IANS, Congress MLA Amin Patel described the incident as a complete administrative failure and questioned the use of funds allocated…
Ranchi, July 2 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday impleaded the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as a respondent in the case of a minor girl who has been missing from Bokaro district for the past six years and directed it to participate in the investigation.Hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by the girl’s mother, Usha Jha, a division bench of Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Sanjay Prasad asked the CBI and the state Crime Investigation Department (CID) to carry forward …
Kochi, July 2 (IANS) In a significant development in the long-running alleged corruption case involving the Kerala State Cashew Development Corporation (KSCDC), the High Court on Thursday was informed that the state government has finally passed the sanction order to prosecute former senior officials of the corporation, ending years of resistance that had triggered contempt proceedings against top bureaucrats.The submission was made before Justice A. Badharudeen by the Director General of Prosec…
Mumbai, July 1 (IANS) Maharashtra Public Health and Family Welfare Minister Prakash Abitkar on Wednesday informed the state assembly during question hour that the Cabinet has approved the recruitment of 5,000 new positions in the public health department to tackle the manpower shortage across state medical facilities. He announced that the hiring process will be accelerated this week.Coinciding with National Doctors’ Day today, appointment orders for 1,400 doctors are being issued immediately, w…
Kolkata, June 30 (IANS) A face recognition-based biometric attendance system will be introduced in every government school in West Bengal in phases, said state School Education Minister Dipak Barman on Tuesday. He also assured that he would take a quick decision on the long-pending teacher recruitment process in state-run schools.Speaking at a programme of the BJP’s teachers’ cell at the National Library, he said that the education department has already begun work on this.At the same time, his …
Vijayawada, June 30 (IANS) Speakers at a round-table conference here on Tuesday expressed concern over the complete collapse of law and order in Andhra Pradesh under the coalition government.The speakers felt that democratic values, constitutional rights and the rule of law were under unprecedented assault. They highlighted rising attacks on women, political violence, false cases against victims, custodial deaths and the shrinking space for democratic dissent.The round table on “Police Functioni…