Law

SC stays NCPCR recommendation to end madrasas funding

IANS | October 21, 2024 1:19 PM

New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) The Supreme Court, in an interim order passed on Monday, stayed a National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) recommendation asking all states and Union Territories to discontinue funding for Madrasa Boards.

RG Kar tragedy: CBI trying to retrieve deleted data from mobile phones of Ghosh, Mondal

IANS | October 21, 2024 11:50 AM

Kolkata, Oct 21 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths probing the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor of R.G. Kar are trying to retrieve the deleted data from the mobile phones of the former principal of the medical college and hospital Sandip Ghosh and the former SHO of Tala Police Station Abhijit Mondal.

Nothing at all, no evidence, politically motivated: Indian diplomat takes Trudeau govt head on

IANS | October 20, 2024 10:22 PM

Ottawa, Oct 20 (IANS) In his first reaction after being withdrawn by New Delhi following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's continued "hostility" towards India, senior diplomat and High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma on Sunday termed the allegations levelled by Ottawa as "politically motivated" with no evidence whatsoever presented by the Canadian government of India's alleged involvement in last year's killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

‘Unnecessary’: SC on Madras HC order to probe Isha Foundation

IANS | October 19, 2024 2:51 PM

New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court has termed "unnecessary" the Madras High Court's order to police in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore to probe the Isha Foundation by expanding the ambit of the habeas corpus petition of a father who had alleged that his two daughters were kept under captivity in ashram.