Farmers can knock on SC doors While dismissing the petition challenging the allotment of land to Anil Ambanis ADA Group for the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Dadri in Noida, a bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice R V Raveendran said the farmers should approach the court directly wherever the land had been acquired against their will...
MPs turn anchor on LS TV Two MPs from Lok Sabha will be seen in action from next week not just inside the House chamber but also on LS TV, the dedicated channel of the Lower House...
Mining policy abetting 'quick buck' lobby: CM Karnataka on Monday urged the Centre to keep the national interest in mind before proceeding to draft the National Mineral Policy and amend the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957...
Floods batter Goa Last evening, the situation was alarming... There was little respite in the night... We have put all the machinery on alert, Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat told reporters after the cabinet meeting on Monday...
Poaching case: Salman Khan appears in court Filmstar Salman Khan appeared at the district and sessions court in Jodhpur on Monday for the hearing of his appeal filed against the lower courts order sentencing him to a five year jail term in the black buck poaching case...
Students from Anjuman-E-Islam school use coloured umbrellas to form the word 'PEACE' in English in the colour of the Indian National Tricolour in Ahmedabad, on Monday. Under US President Harry S. Truman, 06 August 1945, the nuclear weapon 'Little Boy' was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, followed 09 August 1945 by the detonation of the 'Fat Man' nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. Some 800 students of the school took part in the ceremony. AFP
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