In a first such case in Victoria, three men have been charged with inciting racial hatred nearly six months after they physically assaulted an Indian student in this Australian city.police have laid racial vilification charges against all the accused ..

Even as British Prime Minister David Cameron begins his first official visit to India, his Business Secretary Vince Cable created a controversy by saying he preferred a more liberal immigration policy for non-EU workers than the government was curren ..

"Don't play with the life and the career of the students," the Delhi High Court Tuesday told the Delhi University and a teachers' association for their failure to resolve differences over introduction of semester system in colleges. ..

The Supreme Court Monday gave six weeks' time to the central government to file its reply on a suit filed by the Akhil Maharashtra Muslim Khatik Samaj seeking inclusion in the list of other scheduled castes.The petition said that socially Muslim  ..

A special bench of the Allahabad High Court Monday concluded the hearing related to ownership of a disputed land in Ayodhya to which Hindus and Muslims have made rival claims for over a century. The decision is likely to be delivered in September.Whi ..

Parents in China can no longer secretly browse through their children's computer or mobile phones from September after a law was passed aiming to protect the privacy of children.The new law, the first of its kind anywhere in China, was passed by  ..

The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has announced it will review applications of migrants whose pleas were refused solely because they failed to meet the financial requirements for maintenance.The review, under all tiers of the points-based system, is limite ..

Government litigation accounts for nearly 30 percent of the cases pending in courts across the country, union Minister for Law and Justice Veerappa Moily said Sunday."More than 30 percent of the litigation space is covered by government litigati ..

The Delhi High court has directed the government to admit in its school a Class 9 student whose application was rejected on the ground that the last school attended by him was neither a state-run nor a state-aided institution.The court said that the  ..

The Himachal Pradesh High Court Saturday restrained the trial court from passing any order related to bail given to four students of a medical college who ragged their junior Aman Kachru to death last year.The court adjourned the proceedings till Mon ..

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday sought the support of states in the government's efforts to implement a uniform taxation regime on goods and services across the country from the next fiscal."Reform of tax structure and tax administrat ..

Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kings XI Punjab ended up on the wrong side of the law Saturday when a court here issued bailable arrest warrants to its three owners - actress Priety Zinta, industrialist Ness Wadia and businessman Mohit Burman.The ar ..

Chinese legislators are considering reducing the list of offences that carry capital punishment under the country's law, media reports said Saturday.A draft revision of criminal law will be submitted to the Standing Committee of the National Peop ..

A consumer court has asked a Delhi doctor to pay compensation of Rs.3 lakh to the family of a seriously injured soldier who died outside his clinic two years ago and reminded him of the Hippocratic oath he had taken to "render help to a dying ma ..

The UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled Thursday that Kosovo broke no laws by declaring independence, disappointing Belgrade and exhilarating Pristina. Court President Justice Hisashi Owada said that international law contains no &quo ..

The Delhi High Court Thursday allowed a woman to live with her husband after she was forcibly restrained at home by her parents for marrying a man from a different caste. The police were also directed to provide protection to the couple."We are  ..

The Delhi government Thursday launched a training programme for its medical officers on treating victims of domestic violence.Health Minister Kiran Walia, inaugurating the programme on "Holistic and Human Care of Women Victims of Domestic Violen ..

Six Mexican women have been sentenced 25-30 years in prison on homicide charges for terminating their pregnancies.The women have already served between three to eight years of their 25 to 30 year sentences handed down by state courts in Guanajuato st ..

The Patna High Court is set to hear Thursday the Bihar government's plea to review the court's decision for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into irregularities of Rs.11,412 crore in the state.In a suit filed Monday, the state go ..

US prosecutors have revived an investigation into dozens of gold burglaries in nearby Northern Virginia last year targeted at Indian and South Asian families who kept gold and other valuables in their houses. The investigation, which collapsed after  ..