New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) The scheme proposed by the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) for compensating victims of sexual assault and acid attacks should be made applicable to child victims of such assaults, said…
Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) Five out of 12 people arrested for their alleged involvement in the carcass meat selling racket here were on Wednesday grated bail after the state CID failed to produce a charge…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the Central government for its failure to comply with its verdict on making institutions disabled-friendly and sought details of the work done by…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) Parliament on Wednesday passed the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill, 2018, that provides for measures to deter absconding economic outlaws from evading prosecution by staying outside the jurisdiction of Indian courts,…
Chandigarh, July 25 (IANS) A court in Punjab on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl two years back. The death sentence was pronounced in the Additional…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) The Supreme Court was told on Wednesday that restriction on the entry of women in the reproductive age group of 10 to 50 years in Sabarimala temple is justified as…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) Delhi Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam on Wednesday ordered the renovation of the Lampur beggars home in north Delhi to facilitate the board and lodging of beggars as well…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) Former Vice President Hamid Ansari on Wednesday said that a question was staring at all of us if the open society “we used to take pride in” was facing a…
Agra July 25 (IANS) Even as the UP government and Agra district officials struggle to stitch together a “patch work quilt” called a Vision Document for the eco-sensitive Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ), to submit before…
Chennai, July 25 (IANS) The Madras High Court on Wednesday remitted back the illegal telephone exchange case against former Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his elder brother and Sun TV group head Kalanithi Maran to…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) Ahead of the declaration of Draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, the Union Home Ministry on Wednesday said people who are not part of the Draft would not…
Patna, July 25 (IANS) The Patna High Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of the rape of over 20 minor girls in a shelter home in Muzaffarpur and asked the state government to be…
Hyderabad, July 25 (IANS) The Hyderabad High Court has impleaded 17 public representatives including a MP and eight state legislators of Andhra Pradesh for alleged violation of the court orders banning cockfighting. Thotha Narasimham, a…
Patna, July 25 (IANS) An opposition delegation led by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday alleged that the Bihar government is trying to save the main accused in the rape case involving dozen minor girls…
Islamabad, July 25 (IANS) At least 34 people were killed and several injured mostly in a suicide bombing in Balochistan on Wednesday as millions of voters are thronging polling stations across the country to exercise…
Lahore, July 25 (IANS) Millions of voters queued up to vote in Pakistan’s 11th general elections, with some history-making events also taking place in the conservative areas where women are usually not allowed to take…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted interim protection to former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case till August 1. Justice A.K. Pathak directed the…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) In two separate incidents, National Commission for Women (NCW) and Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Wednesday rescued girls and women who had become victims of human trafficking. While DCW…
Lahore, July 25 (IANS) For the first time in Pakistan’s political history, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)gave the duty of “observers” during polling to members of the transgender community. However, on Wednesday in Lahore…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 25 (IANS) A CBI Special Court here on Wednesday sentenced to death two policemen and three others to rigorous imprisonment for three years in a case of custodial torture and death 13 years…