The Supreme Court has ordered a retrial of the Best Bakery case, after 21 people were acquitting for murdering 12 Muslims during the pogroms against the Muslims in Gujarat in 2002: It ruled the new trial must take place in neighbouring Maharashtra state and called for a fresh investigation… The Supreme Court said the first [...]

The Congress Party continues to hesitate over naming candidates for three constituencies: Delhi Assembly speaker Ajay Maken and a former Union minister accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots Jagdish Tytler figured among four candidates named for contesting from the city even as suspense over candidature at three other seats continued amid intense wranglings. Sajjan Kumar, [...]