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New Delhi: Criminal proceedings cannot be initiated based on vague and unsupported allegations alone, the SC has ruled, quashing a case of dowry harassment and cruelty filed against a Kanpur-based couple by their daughter-in-law.A bench comprising Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuiyan noted that the case was filed nearly seven years after the allegations of…

New Delhi: Taking lessons from Operation Sindur, the Indian Army is equipping its armored regiments with dedicated drone units known as ‘Shaurya Squadron’. These units are being integrated into tank formations to support surveillance, precision strikes, electronic warfare and logistics, adding drone capabilities to direct armored operations.Just a few days ago, the Army tested a…

New Delhi: Supreme Court Said that if a private car met with an accident sought by a district administration, the liability would be on the government and not the insurance company to pay the compensation.A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and NK Singh said, “Where a vehicle is requisitioned for public work and an incident…

NEW DELHI: Taking a swipe at the Modi government after it referred to Pakistan as a proxy nation, the Congress on Thursday said the “self-styled world guru’s” bombast and narrative failure diplomacy had turned a “broken country into a proxy nation”.Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh said the EAM was trying its best to mask India’s “extreme…

SRINAGAR: Every morning Ulfat Bano collects about 25 letters from the district post office in south Kashmir’s Shopian and leaves on foot. There is no postal van that he can use if fatigue strikes.The 55-year-old walks past his home village of Hirapora, past stone walls and wooden barns with corrugated tin roofs – and when…

SRINAGAR: J&K Police’s Economic Offenses Wing (EOW) on Thursday raided three locations in Srinagar and Budgam districts to nab two persons involved in an alleged fraud who had issued fake medical procurement orders to siphon off government funds during the Covid-19 pandemic.Sanjay Kumar Sahu, proprietor of Delhi-based M/s Sanjay Trading Company, has filed a written…

TOI correspondent from London: The judges who ruled against fugitive jeweler Nirav Modi’s attempt to reopen his appeal against his extradition said their ruling “presents a disturbing picture of the use of prohibited treatment to obtain confessions, which were characterized as ‘common and endemic’”.Lord Justice Stewart-Smith and Justice J said in their order: “Had it…

New Delhi: A professor at a medical college on the outskirts of Bengaluru has been booked for sexual harassment after he re-entered the campus despite being barred and propositioned a female student in a classroom, an incident that later escalated into a violent clash.Police said the episode took place on March 23 at a private…

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Thursday launched a sharp counter-attack on Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharg for criticizing the party in the Kerala election, accusing the Congress of going soft on the BJP and targeting the Left for electoral gains.In a strongly worded statement,…