First arrested in 2018, former BrahMos Aerospace scientist Nishant Agarwal was granted bail in April 2023 but again sent to prison in 2024. HC order paves way for his release.
In a relief for landowners, top court criticised HC for bypassing precedent in allowing Maharashtra to categorise plots across Mumbai as 'private forests' & assume control of them.
In his petition, Kamra claimed that the FIR infringes upon his fundamental right to freedom of expression & that his satirical remarks fall within the ambit of constitutional freedoms.
The court was hearing a petition by Sudhakar Pawar challenging the November 2023 order passed by the govt rejecting his application seeking Rs 50 lakh compensation over his wife's death.
Apex court was hearing Amravati MP’s appeal against 2017 Bombay HC order cancelling 'Mochi' certificate given to her. Rana will be contesting LS polls from the seat as BJP candidate.
Acquitting the 6 in Maoist links case, HC wondered how charges were framed against DU prof Saibaba in absence of valid sanction. Police also failed to explain delay in his arrest, HC said.
Court also set aside life sentence imposed on 54-year-old Saibaba, who is wheelchair-bound. He has been detained in Nagpur Central Jail since his arrest in the case in 2014.
Bombay HC, while staying release of ‘The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth’, had directed Netflix to screen the docu-series on the Sheena Bora case for CBI officials.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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