Month: May 2025

[ad_1] This is a representative AI image (Pic credit: Lexica) KOLKATA: Lawyers are now aligned to political parties and their source of power lies outside the court, Calcutta high court said on Tuesday, lamenting the corresponding dip in court decorum. The observation was made by Justice Tirthankar Ghosh during the hearing of a petition alleging "harassment and atrocities" against family members of a father-son duo killed in the Murshidabad violence over waqf bill. Senior counsel Billwadal Bhattacharya appeared for the aggrieved family, which alleged police overaction."They (lawyers) show heat before the court. This is very unfortunate," Justice Ghosh said, as he refused to entertain the plea saying a division bench was already hearing cases related to Murshidabad violence. He released the matter from his court and directed the case records be sent to Chief Justice for assignment to the appropriate […]

[ad_1] ROORKEE: In a first in the history of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, a senior professor was dismissed from service following allegations of sexual harassment filed by a PhD student. Professor Zillur Rahman, 60, of the department of management studies was sacked after an internal inquiry, confirmed sources at the institute.Rahman served as the head of the department of management studies and taught marketing management at IIT-Roorkee. He was supervising more than 15 research scholars at the time of his dismissal.Authorities handed over the dismissal letter to Rahman on Monday evening. On Tuesday evening, the institute released a statement, saying: "A faculty member has been dismissed from service following the conclusion of disciplinary proceedings against him."Sources said the PhD student submitted the sexual harassment complaint to the authorities in January. Though the institute gave Rahman two opportunities to […]

[ad_1] 17 killed in rain-related mishaps across Gujarat, several injured RAJKOT/AHMEDABAD/VADODARA: Unseasonal rain coupled with severe thunderstorms and powerful gusty wind gusts claimed 17 lives across Gujarat in the last 24 hours ending Tuesday morning. Four casualties were reported in Kheda district, three each in Vadodara city and Dahod district, two each in Ahmedabad and Aravalli, and one each in Anand, Panchmahal and Amreli districts. The deaths were caused by lightning, electrocution and collapse of trees, houses and hoardings.A total of 168 out of 253 talukas were lashed by rain, with the coastal Mahuva town in Bhavnagar getting the highest 170mm rainfall in just six hours. Officials said strong winds uprooted trees, hoardings and pillars, and parts of houses collapsed in several districts, leaving many injured.On Tuesday, Amreli and Bhavnagar district were pounded by heavy rainfall and fierce winds, bringing […]

[ad_1] This is a representative image NEW DELHI: Delhi high court stayed Tuesday an interim copyright-case order against composer AR Rahman and makers of Ponniyin Selvan 2 over a song in the 2023 Tamil film.A bench of Justices C Hari Shankar and Ajay Digpaul, however, directed Rahman and the makers of the film to deposit Rs 2 crore with the HC registry within 10 days, as directed by the single judge. Rahman had appealed against the single judge's order and sought a stay.The single judge had in its interim order last month also ordered insertion of a slide in the film on all OTT and online platforms to give due credit to Junior Dagar Brothers-Late Ustad N Faiyazuddin Dagar and Late Ustad Zahiruddin Dagar-for the composition. The division bench stayed this direction too, until it examined Rahman's appeal on May […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has directed the road transport and highways ministry to publish the annual report of "Road Accidents in India of 2023" by Aug and said such reports should be made public within six month after the end of every calendar year so that these can be "useful".Interestingly, the National Crime Records Bureau, which comes under the home ministry, has also not yet published the Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India report of 2023, even one and a half years after the end of that calendar year.The SC direction to the road transport ministry for publishing the report came after the govt informed a bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan that the "process of publication of the report is going on". While granting time till Aug, the court said, "We also direct MoRTH to […]

[ad_1] An injured being brought for treatment at a hospital after a bus skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge, at Mendhar in Poonch district JAMMU: At least four people, including an Army trooper on leave, died and over 40 others were injured Tuesday when a passenger bus rolled down into a deep gorge in J&K’s Poonch.“The bus, on its way from Ghani to Mendhar, lost control and rolled down into the gorge around 9.20am. Locals along with police, Army and CRPF personnel launched a rescue and evacuated the injured to the nearby health facility in Mendhar, from where 11 critically injured were referred to Govt Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H), Rajouri,” an official said.Three of the deceased were identified as soldier Abdul Majeed (45) of Assam Rifles, Noor Hussain (60) and Shakeela Begum (55). The fourth had […]

[ad_1] File photo of Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi ISLAMABAD: Pahalgam’s shadow loomed over Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi’s diplomacy overdrive in Islamabad this week as he projected his country as a potential mediator in the escalating India-Pakistan conflict. The move came ahead of his scheduled visit to Delhi on Wednesday, and in the face of India’s refusal to accept third-party mediation.While the official word was that the May 5 talks were “routine”, sources said the focus of Araghchi’s meetings with President Asif Ali Zardari, PM Shehbaz Sharif and his Pakistan counterpart Ishaq Dar was the fallout of the terrorist attack on tourists in J&K’s Pahalgam a fortnight ago.Amid Iran’s bid to positioning itself as a mediator in an attempt to avert a broader conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours, speculation was rife in Pakistan about the impartiality, leverage and ability […]