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Congress 'shehzada' conspiring to scrap reservations, alleges PM ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Congress of planning to end reservations for certain communities. He spoke at two rallies in Jhark...
Infiltration assuming alarming proportion in Jharkhand, says PM ModiPM Modi addressed a rally in Godda, Jharkhand. He accused the JMM-led government of supporting infiltrators and harming the interests of tr...
SC rules MPs and MLAs not immune from prosecution for briberyThe Supreme Court's recent ruling, overturning the immunity of MPs and MLAs from prosecution for accepting bribes, aligns with the principl...
PM lauds SC verdict in JMM bribery case, says it will ensure clean politicsSC overturned its own order in the case in which four MPs from the party were charged with taking money to vote in favour of the Narasimha ...
Congress hails SC order but says it's not about facts of Narasimha Rao caseCongress welcomes Supreme Court's order undoing immunity for legislators in bribery cases during conduct in Houses. The judgement recalls J...
Bribes for vote case: SC overturns 1998 ruling, MP/MLAs to face criminal prosecutionOn Monday, a seven-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court overturned a 1998 ruling that granted lawmakers immunity from prosecution ...
Defamatory speech in Parliament, Assembly not a crime, legislators have full freedom of speech: SCThe court ruled that an act of defamation on the floor of the House is not a crime. The proposition was put forward to defend JMM MLA Sita ...
SC reserves verdict on reconsideration of 1998 judgement granting immunity to lawmakers from prosecutionThe Supreme Court of India has reserved its verdict on reconsidering a 1998 judgment that granted immunity to MPs and MLAs from prosecution...
Will deal with issue of immunity of lawmakers if criminality attached to acts: SCThe current immunity allows MPs and MLAs to avoid prosecution for accepting bribes to make speeches or votes in Parliament and state legisl...
Supreme Court sets up seven-judge bench to reconsider 1998 verdict granting immunity from prosecution to MPs/MLAsThe Supreme Court of India will reconsider its 1998 verdict granting immunity to MPs and MLAs from prosecution for accepting bribes to make...
SC sets up another five-judge Constitution bench, to hear batch of pleas against demonetisationAt present three five-judge Constitution benches headed by Chief Justice UU Lalit and Justices DY Chandrachud and Sanjay Kishan Kaul are he...
Coal scam: Trial venue for SPG protectee Manmohan Singh may be shifted to Vigyan BhawanSC on October 11, 1996 defined what a SPG protection to an ex-PM meant. "The mere fact that the protectee has to go to the court as an unde...
PV Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh: A sense of deja vuSoon after demitting office in May, 1996, Rao was forced to fight three cases: Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case, St Kitts forgery case and JM...
Bofors to Mulayam to Maya: CBI has swayed to political tuneAgainst Maya & Mulayam, the CBI changed its stand on the sufficiency of evidence to file charge sheets against them. This coincided with UP...
Hegde doubtful on the success of Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi partyIt is a good thing in principle, but in reality it is not going to be an easy job, says former team Anna member Justice N Santosh Hegde
- I don't need certificate from Moily: Karnataka Lokayukta
Reacting sharply to Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily's reported adverse remarks against him, Karnataka Lokayukta N Santosh Hegde today s...
- Shibu Soren sworn in as Jharkhand Chief Minister
Shibu Soren becomes the seventh chief minister of Jharkhand.
- Case against journalists who 'stung' 11 MPs
In an ironic twist to the 2005 cash-for-questions scam, the Delhi Police have chargesheeted the two journalists who had conducted the sting...
- Case against journalists who 'stung' 11 MPs
Scribes Aniruddha Bahal and Suhasini Raj, who conducted the cash-for-query sting operation that led to the expulsion of 11 MPs, have been c...
- 'Whistle blowers' can face action, say legal experts
The three BJP MPs who alleged the UPA government’s allies tried to bribe them for supporting the trust vote could be prosecuted for breachi...