Nine women lawyers, including Supreme Court advocate Aparna Bhat, have sought a stay in a July 30 order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in which a judge had given bail to a sexual offender on the condition that he ties a rakhi on the woman whose modesty he allegedly outraged.
The National Human Rights Commission, (NHRC), completed 27 years of existence today. On the occasion of the foundations day, NHRC Chairperson Justice H.L. Dattu has issued a press release...
The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police has arrested three directors of Indirapuram Habitat Centre (IHC) for allegedly misappropriating a financial loan of Rs 10 crores.
A Kerala Sessions Court yesterday rejected anticipatory bail pleas of three women 'activists', including renowned dubbing artiste Bhagyalakshmi, in connection with a case of an assault on a YouTuber.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced that his government will now allow a 5 percent horizontal reservation in Group B posts for ex-servicemen in government jobs.
The Allahabad High Court has ordered a girl named Sheeba, who had accepted Hinduism and changed her name to Shikha to marry a Hindu man named Rohit Rathore, to be freed from the confinement of her father and brother.
New Delhi (ILNS): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in an affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court, has said that it cannot extend the moratorium period allowed by the government (prodded by the top c...
New Delhi (ILNS): After eight months of investigation into the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon incident, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a 10,000-page charge sheet.
Reacting to another horrific case of the murder of a minor girl and the subsequent inaction and ineffectiveness of the police, the Jharkhand High Court has observed that Hathras wasn’t just a place in Uttar Pradesh, but exists in Jharkhand as well.