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The standoff between the government and the Supreme Court over judicial appointments came to a head on Friday with the SC threatening to summon officials from the Prime Minister’s Office and the Justice secretary if the process is not fast-tracked.

The flyway connecting Delhi and neighbouring Noida will remain toll-free for commuters, with Supreme Court on Friday refusing to stay an Allahabad High Court order restraining Noida Toll Bridge Company Limited from levying the cess, saying it should not c...

Armed forces are answerable to the government, otherwise there will be martial law in the country, the Supreme Court said on Friday.

Known for his benevolent Diwali gifts to his employees, Surat-based billionaire diamond merchant Savji Dholakia has this year too kept over a thousand cars and 400 flats to his well-performing staffers with the company bearing part of the monthly instalme...

Former top cop of Mumbai police Rakesh Maria, now Maharashtra's Director General (Home Guards), and two other senior officials of the force have been questioned by CBI in connection with the Sheena Bora murder case in which the agency is about to wrap up...

In another shameful and shocking incident, an old woman named Sabitri had no one to shoulder her to the cremation ground after her death only because she belonged to a low caste.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi who is also an MP from Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh will be affected by the ongoing hearing in the Supreme Court which deals with the contentious issue of politicians seeking votes on religious grounds.

His neighbour, who noticed the stray dogs attacking Raghavan, raised an alarm -- and it was only then that his family members, who were asleep, came to know of the ghastly incident.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday informed the state assembly that the first phase of the Rs 5181.79 crore Kochi Metro is expected to be ready by April next year.

"Since 1984 this movement is going on across the country (for constructing Ram Mandir)...there is nothing new. There is some delay due to court cases," said Joshi.

A case has been registered against a man for circulating an objectionable photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a messaging app, police said.

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Monday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comments on triple talaq and said the issue was “purely religious” and neither the PM or the BJP had “any right to intervene”.

"Possibly these mistakes were made because the court was so overburdened with work that it cannot give as much time to cases as they deserve, which they would have otherwise done, had it not been for this heavy load of cases to decide," he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday batted for equal women rights in the Muslim community and said he favoured discontinuation of 'triple talaq'.

he Indian and Pakistani armed forces exchanged heavy shelling and firing all night through along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu district on Monday that claimed the life of a Border Security Forces (BSF) soldier.

With deals over USD 12 billion in kitty this month, including leasing of a second nuclear submarine, Russia hopes to bag more projects as it termed itself as not just a business partner but an "ally" who stood by India in its "darkest hours".