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National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday issued notices to Haryana and West Bengal governments asking them to send reports on desecration of an under-construction church in Hisar (Haryana) and the alleged gangrape of a nun in West Bengal respectively. According to an official statement released on Wednesday, the commission has issued notices to the Chief […]

Dealing with the issue of sedition and freedom of speech, the Bombay High Court in an order passed Tuesday said the charge cannot be invoked whenever the government is criticised unless such censure leads to violent public disorder. The issue was raised before Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice N M Jamdar during the hearing

Scrapping the Centre’s March 2014 notification to include Jats in the central list of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category in nine states, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that “caste” and “historical injustice” cannot blind a state in according backward status to a community and that new emerging groups such as transgenders must be identified

A Pakistani court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of the government’s plea for cancellation of bail to Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind, till March 26 as his counsel did not turn up. “The Islamabad High Court today adjourned the hearing till March 26 as Lakhvi’s counsel did not turn up. His counsel

The Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed a decision to include Jats in the central list of Other Backward Classes (OBC) category in nine states for providing reservation benefits. The notification included Jat community in OBC list in Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan (two districts of Bharatpur and Dholpur), Uttar Pradesh and

A Myanmar court has sentenced a New Zealand bar manager and his business associates to two years and six months in prison for insulting Buddhism over a flyer that showed a psychedelic depiction of Buddha wearing headphones. Blackwood, 32, Tun Thurein and Htut Ko Ko Lwin were given two years of hard labor for insulting

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday reiterated its stand that Aadhar cards will not be mandatory for availing government benefits including subsidies. The top court asked the Centre to follow its 2013 order on the issue. The apex court had in October 2013 refused to make Aadhar card compulsory for availing social benefits, turning down

Former Telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanithi Maran Monday filed separate petitions challenging the jurisdiction of special 2G court to try the Aircel-Maxis deal case in which they have been summoned as accused along with others. Special CBI judge O P Saini issued notice to the CBI seeking their response on the pleas

MUMBAI: A married person cannot take advantage of his or her own wrong to seek divorce, the Bombay high court said while dismissing a woman’s case for grant of divorce on her admission of having deserted her husband. The woman, Malini Videshi (name changed) had challenged the Bandra family court’s refusal to pass divorce orders

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to deal with an iron hand, cases where rape videos were being uploaded and circulated on social networking sites. It also directed the CBI to bring to justice those committing rapes and sharing videos through messenger services like WhatsApp. The court slammed the home ministry