Editorial

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today sought a response of the Centre and the RBI on a plea of Pune district central cooperative bank seeking a direction to accept from it over Rs 22.25 crore in demonetised notes. A bench …

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday held the Calcutta High Court judge Justice CS Karnan guilty in the contempt of court case against him, and sentenced him to six months in prison. The top court said that its order …

Mumbai: Embattled Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya, who has been declared a proclaimed offender, was today arrested in London by Scotland Yard on India’s request for his extradition on fraud charges. However, three hours after his arrest, various TV channels stated …

GUWAHATI,M REYAZ: At a panel discussion on Assam’s Char (river islands) inhabitants last month at the Jamia Millia Islamia, professor Sanjoy Hazarika, director of the Centre of Northeast Studies and Policy Research, made an interesting observation. He noted that till …

MUMBAI: More than 95 per cent Indian households prefer to park their money in bank deposits, while less than 10 per cent opt for investing in mutual funds or stocks, a new SEBI survey showed on Wednesday. The survey, conducted …

A day after the African envoys’ termed the recent attacks on African students as ‘xenophobic’ and ‘racial’, External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said it cannot be called racist before probe is completed. Denouncing attacks on African nationals …

NEW DELHI, CHANDER SHEKHAR LUTHRA: Monday could be the day the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Anurag Thakur would not like to remember. Whether the order from the three-member Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice …

Main Uddin: Line System (in Assam), Line system was a system introduced in Kamrup and Nagaon District of Assam for the first time in 1920 under which the Muslim immigrants from East Bengal, more particularly from Mymensingh District, were required to …

NEW DELHI: The Centre will be opposing in the Supreme Court the triple talaq practice on the grounds of women’s rights, terming it as “inalienable” and asserting that the issue should not be seen from the prism of uniform civil …

NEW DELHI,KRISHNADAS RAJAGOPAL: Noting that the Centre and the Army, and not the Supreme Court, are the best judges to decide matters of national security and threat perceptions to the country, the apex court on Wednesday refused to entertain a …