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SC grants bail to convict A G Perarivalan in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case

Perarivalan was arrested over 30 years ago for procuring batteries that were used to build the bomb fitted in the suicide bomber’s vest that killed Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.

Legally speaking, why Andhra HC ‘1 capital’ verdict could end Jagan’s ‘decentralisation’ dream

New Delhi: The last few days have been a real downer for Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy, as far as his quest...

Jagan govt will go to SC if needed, says minister, after HC order to make Amaravati sole capital

Minister Botsa Satyanarayana said govt is still keen on ‘decentralisation’. Court said legislature can't trifurcate capital, and wants Amaravati developed in 6 months.

SC to hear plea challenging Ashish Mishra’s bail cancellation in Lakhimpur case on 11 March

Three family members of farmers, who were killed in the violence, have sought a stay on the bail order by the Allahabad HC, saying the verdict was 'unsustainable in the eyes of law'.

‘State legislature can’t split capital’: Why HC gave Jagan govt 6 months to develop Amaravati

Jagan govt had wanted Amaravati, Vizag and Kurnool as legislative, executive and judicial capitals. Andhra HC said state can't change capital city notified under APCRDA Act, 2014.

‘Where is the logic?’ SC rejects Maharashtra recommendation for OBC quota in local body polls

SC cites lack of empirical data, directs state election body not to act on state backward class commission’s report. Seats reserved for OBCs to be treated as 'general'.

Sex workers can now get Aadhaar cards without address proof, UIDAI informs SC

UIDAI has decided not to seek residential proof and instead accept a certificate that can be issued to the sex worker by a gazetted officer of NACO, or of the state health department.

‘False evidence, tainted cops’: Why 15 HC verdicts freed 30 death row convicts last year

6 different HCs pulled up investigators for ‘manufactured’ FIRs & coached witnesses, prosecutor for hiding evidence, and lower court for using 'vaishi darinda' in judgment.

After 11 days of hearing all sides on hijab row, Karnataka High Court reserves judgment 

Interim order of 11 February, which restrains all students from displaying religious clothing in colleges with a dress code, will remain in operation till judgment is pronounced.

SC takes up plea seeking review of Sidhu’s ‘voluntary causing hurt’ conviction in road rage death

SC asks Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu to file response within 2 weeks on plea filed by victim’s family, which says he should not have been convicted of ‘lesser offence’.

On Camera

New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows rural India is catching up with urban consumers

Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.

General secrets from frozen peaks: A Kargil veteran reveals what politically correct writers left out

At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war. 

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.