NEW DELHI: The central government has been allowed by the Delhi high court to probe into the alleged irregularities by Central Wakf Council secretary Mohammad Rizwanul Haque in making appointments in the Punjab Wakf Board when he was its officiating administrator over a decade ago. Dismissing Haque's plea for quashing the ...

CHANDIGARH: The pension of former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, who was convicted in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, has to be resumed. The Chandigarh bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) on Thursday directed the ministry of home to resume the pension of the former director general of police. The ...

CHANDIGARH: The Delhi High Court has stayed the cm prose ecution against Arvind Khanna, a former Congress MLA from Sangrur, in a case related to the violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA). The court passed these orders on Wednesday on a petition filed by Khanna, his counsel Atul ...

AMRITSAR: After an extended conflict with Punjabi University, Patiala, Guru Nanak Dev University, on Thursday, brought home the prestigious Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy for 2009-10 for excellence in sports. The trophy was handed over to vice-chancellor Prof AS Brar by the sports director of the university, Dr Kanwaljit Siilgh. The ...

CHANDIGARH: Mukul Mudgal, the chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana high court, retired on Monday after serving in the position for more than a year. He was sworn in as chief justice On December 5, 2009. Before that he was the senior most judge in the Delhi high court. Justice Ranjan ...

CHANDIGARH: The Centre has sought eight more weeks from the Armed Forces Tribunal to place on record the documents asked by Brig Surinder Singh (retd), the brigade commander in Kargil during the 1999 war. Surinder was sacked from the Army on May 29, 2001 for allegedly leaking documents to unauthorised people ...

CHANDIGARH: Casting doubt over the veracity of defence minister A K Antony's statement in the Rajya Sabha, Capt Sumit Kohli's mother Veena Kohli; claimed on Friday that she had not received any communication from either Antony or the defence ministry regarding the "reinvestigation" into the death of her son under ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed all further proceedings in a disproportionate assets case against Ajay and Abhay Chautala, the sons of former Haryana chief minister and INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala. A Bench of Justices VS Sirpurkar and Cyriac Joseph while staying the proceedings also issued notice to ...

CHANDIGARH: The Principal Bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) dismissed a serving colonel's petition for reimbursement of Apollo Hospital's bills for treatment of his wife on the grounds that faculties were available in the Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi Cantonment, for her treatment. The judgment clarified that "facilities which are not ...

NEW DELHI: A senior advocate fighting for 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his intervention to ensure that the government's law officers defend the CEI in a case against Congress leader Salian Kumar in the Supreme Court. On August 27, the Supreme Court is scheduled ...

HOSHIARPUR: The court of Chief Judical magistrate Gurjant Singh, on Wednesday, issued bail able warrants for SAD secretary in a criminal case of forgery filed by Malta Boat Tragedy Probe Mission chairman Balwant Singh Khera. The court had summoned him on the last date of hearing and asked him to produce  ...

CHANDIGARH: The principal Bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT), New Delhi, has ruled that it has jurisdiction to try cases related to Military Nursing Service (MNS) officers. Delivering the judgment on an application filed by Balwinder Kaur, the Bench, comprising Justice Manak Mohta and Lt Gen Z.u.Shah (retd), said: "A ...

NEW DELHI: The CBI on Thursday opposed in a court here Congress leader Saijan Kumar's plea seeking certain documents relating to two anti-Sikh riots cases and termed a "national shame" dragging on of the carnage cases for over two decades. "It is kind of national shame that even after two decades, ...