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New Delhi, Jan 12: In an unprecedented move, four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court today called a press conference and said the situation in the top court was "not in order" and many "less than desirable" things have taken place. Unless this institution is preserved, "democracy will not survive in this country," the four judges said. Justice J Chelameswar, the second senior judge after the

Greater Noida, Jan 12: A 45-year-old police constable on deputation with Sales Taxdepartment Gautam Budh Nagar allegedly raped a 7-year old girl in presence of her younger brother after luring her with a ten rupee note on Wednesday evening. The accused Subhash Singh assaulted the girl for half an hour and fled from the spot as people started gathering due to rescue cry. The accused believed the

Jan 12: The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched its 100th satellite on Friday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. On its 42nd mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) trusted workhorse PSLV-C40 carried Cartosat-2 series satellite and 30 other spacecraft. The co-passenger satellites comprise one micro and nano satellite each from India as well as

Mangaluru, Jan 11: V V Rao, the director of Mangaluru International Airport, has falsified the reports that there was a vehicle on the runway during the takeoff of a Jet Airways flight on Thursday. “Wrong and vague information is being given by media. There was no tractor or any other baggage carrying trolley on the runway during the takeoff,” he stated in a release. He said that prior to the

Ghalib Afzal Guru, son of executed Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru, is once again in news for academic reasons. Ghalib bagged 441 marks in the Class XII exam for which the result was declared by Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education on Thursday. Among those who have cleared the class XII exam conducted by the JKBOSE is Burhan Wani's brother Muhammad Naveed Aalam. Scoring 387

New Delhi, Jan 11: Two civilians were killed and several left injured in Pakistan’s Kasur district Wednesday as police opened fire to disperse an angry mob protesting a minor’s murder in the city. Four days after she went missing, seven-year-old girl Zainab Ansari’s body was found on Tuesday near a garbage dumpster, roughly two kms from her house. Television news channels across Pakistan claimed

Bengaluru, Jan 11: Former Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) chairman Nandan Nilekani said there was an "orchestrated campaign" to malign Aadhaar. He was reacting to the filing of an FIR on The Tribune newspaper report relating to an Aadhaar data breach. "There is 100% an orchestrated campaign to see how Aadhaar gets maligned, yes absolutely," Nilekani told ET Now on the sidelines of

A massive disaster was barely averted on Thursday when the Air Traffic Control at the Mangaluru Airport spotted a vacant tractor parked on the runway just as a Mumbai-bound Jet Airways flight was about to takeoff. According to news agency ANI, the tractor - used for cutting grass beside the runway, was parked at the end of the runway without anyone inside. A Jet Airways flight had taxied to the

A massive disaster was barely averted on Thursday when the Air Traffic Control at the Mangaluru Airport spotted a vacant tractor parked on the runway just as a Mumbai-bound Jet Airways flight was about to takeoff. According to news agency ANI, the tractor - used for cutting grass beside the runway, was parked at the end of the runway without anyone inside. A Jet Airways flight had taxied to the

New Delhi, Jan 11: The Supreme Court on Friday will hear a plea seeking an independent probe into the death of special CBI judge B H Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud today took note of the submission seeking urgent hearing on the plea for a probe into Loya's death on December 1