New Delhi: Justice Dipak Misra was on Monday sworn-in as the 45th Chief Justice of India (CJI), succeeding Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar. 64-year-old Justice Misra has practised in Constitutional, Civil, Criminal, Revenue, Service and Sales Tax matters in the Orissa High Court and the Service Trib

NEW DELHI: CBI court sentences Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh to 10 years in jail for rape. Apart from 10-years in prison, Rs 65,000 fine on the 50-year-old Dera chief. The rapist baba was on Friday found guilty in the 15-year-old case of rape of two of his female followers in

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today questioned the Gujarat government over the slow pace of trial in the rape case involving self-styled godman Asaram Bapu. A bench comprising justices N V Ramanna and Amitava Roy asked the state government why the victim has not been examined till now. It asked

Rohingya: The Myanmar Army has reportedly opened fire on unarmed Rohingya men fleeing the bloodshed in an attempt to cross into Bangladesh border after a rebel group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) launched a pre-dawn raid on police outposts, trying to break into the Army base in Rakhine regio

New Delhi 27 Aug 2017: Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University) has called for online applications for free Civil Services (Pre-cum Mains) and other competitive examination coaching with hostel facilities for Minorities, SC/ST and Women candidates. The candidates are required to submit their applicatio

Villagers beat to death two Muslim men who were on a vehicle transporting cattle in the early hours of Sunday morning, an assault the police said could have been instigated by so-called cow protection vigilantes. The attack took place at a village in Jalpaiguri district, around 622 kilomteres fro

Haryana DGP Mohammad Akil today sought to allay fears of a repeat of the ghastly scenes witnessed in the wake of self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's conviction on Friday, ahead of the announcement of the quantum of his sentence. The "totally alert" state police and paramilitary forces wi

WikiLeaks recently published a secret report saying the United States' top intelligence agency the CIA has technology to access biometric data through covert operations conducted across the world. The Office of Technical Services which is a branch within the CIA has a biometric collection system

NEW DELHI: After more than a decade, chartered accountants' apex body ICAI has introduced revised syllabus for students with major revisions. Chartered accountants' body the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has revised its education and training system by including several contempo

New Delhi: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who was yesterday convicted by special CBI court in a 15-year-old rape case, remained silent on his first night in jail. The rape convict was shifted to a special cell in Rohtak prison late in the evening. According to the reports of the

Bhatkallys News Bureau Bhatkal 26 Aug 2017: Students from over 10 Educational institutions took part in Pratibha Karanji competitions 2017 organized by the department of Education at Anjuman girls high school here on Saturday. During the inauguration Additional General Secretary of Anjuman Ham

SRINAGAR: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has questioned the response of the security forces in combating spiralling violence in parts of Haryana following the conviction of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh by a special CBI court in a rape case yesterday. “Chil

New Delhi: The historic judgment on Right to Privacy would have “some bearing” in matters related to the possession of beef in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court said on Friday. PTI reported that the apex court made the observation while hearing a batch of appeals filed against the Bombay High Court’

New Rs. 200 notes entered the banking system today. The central bank, while announcing the move on Thursday, said that the Rs. 200 notes will act as a "missing link" and make it easier for people to transact in lower denomination currency, thereby bringing greater efficiency into the system. The

Panchkula:  Special CBI court convicted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh of raping two ‘Sadhvis’ (female followers). After 200 hearings spread over 10 years and numerous stay orders of higher courts, the Dera chief who was charged with the offence of rape of a female devotee in 1999

A special court constituted under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act will pronounce its sentence against five convicts, including gangster Abu Salem, on September 7. On June 16, 2017, the TADA court convicted six accused, including Salem and Mustafa Dossa. Dossa died of a he

A day after he was granted bail by the Supreme Court in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Purohit on Tuesday said he is happy to go back to his family. “I am very happy. I want to go back to my family. I have two families- the army and my family which includes my wife, my two

Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought response from tech companies, including Google and Yahoo, on blocking of websites and web links associated with the infamous Blue Whale "game". The court also sought response from the Centre and the Delhi Police while hearing a plea seeking direction to Internet