Rajesh Talwar, father of teenager Aarushi who was murdered along with the family's domestic help in 2008, Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking to restrain the media from indulging in reckless and irresponsible reporting on the case.Talwar, i ..

The Supreme Court was moved Wednesday on whether the provisions of the Hindu Marriage Act apply to an American citizen of Indian origin whose wife has filed a suit in India for the dissolution of their marriage solemnised in the US.This tricky questi ..

The Supreme Court Tuesday said the plight of Delhi residents was getting worse due to illegal construction and mushrooming of commercial activities in residential areas."The plight of the people is worst because of illegal construction. People c ..

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to the Kerala police chief on a complaint that Muslim families are being harassed, an official said Tuesday.NHRC has asked for a report within two weeks in connection with a complaint alle ..

Thirtyeight percent of Mexican women suffer physical, sexual or psychological aggression, and nearly 75 percent of victims don't report the abuse, according to a report from industrial-safety consultants GMSI.The company's study of gender vio ..

The vexed issue of the Babhali Barrage, currently at the centre of a controversy between Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, is scheduled to come up for further hearing before the Supreme Court next month, an official said. Though the Maharashtra governm ..

In perhaps the first case of its kind, a man has been ordered to pay more than 1,500 pounds in court costs for drowning a squirrel, a media report said Monday.Raymond Elliot admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal, a grey squirre ..

A Turkish court has charged 196 people, mostly retired senior army officers, of a coup plot to topple the ruling government.The 968-page indictment approved by an Istanbul court accused the suspects of being involved in an alleged conspiracy in 2003  ..

The Supreme Court Monday asked the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) to desist from blocking the National Highway-31A, which links Siliguri in West Bengal to Sikkim's capital Gangtok, during its proposed shutdown July 25.The court has asked GJMM to  ..

Gujarat's Director General of Police (DGP) S.S. Khandwawala Monday apologised to the Gujarat High Court for chargesheeting a woman whom the court had given a clean chit in an abduction case. He tendered apology through the government pleader afte ..

President Robert Mugabe has vowed that the new constitution currently being drafted in Zimbabwe will have no provision for gay rights, state radio reported Sunday.Mugabe, like most other African leaders, has made no secret of his scorn for homosexual ..

Britain will enforce a temporary cap on non-EU immigration into the country starting Monday, July 19, which will put a limit on the number of applications being made.The interim limit of 24,100 applications will be applied from July 19 to April 2011, ..

The next time you lose your way or suffer a car breakdown on a toll highway, don't panic. You can contact the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) which is duty-bound to come to the rescue of motorists on toll roads, a Right to Information ..

In yet another major step to save the time of the Supreme Court, lawyers and the litigants and streamline the justice delivery system, Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Friday bifurcated the functioning of the forest bench that deals with the environment an ..

The Gujarat High Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged Ishrat Jahan fake gunfight Friday submitted its interim report. It also sought more time to complete the investigation.The SIT is reported to have admitted that it  ..

A former US State Department official has been sentenced to life in prison for spying, while his wife was ordered to spend nearly seven years behind bars for helping to pass highly classified information to Cuba, the Justice Department said Friday.Wa ..

Cyprus has banned the use of vuvuzelas in all sports stadiums, terming it as a "dangerous object".The plastic trumpets, made famous in South Africa during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, will be confiscated if fans take them to stadiums, Xinhua re ..

Hollywood star George Clooney testified before a Milan court as part of a trial of a fraud case involving three men accused of using the actor's name for a fashion label.The 49-year-old actor, dressed in an elegant blue suit, responded to Judge P ..

The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a petition seeking initiation of contempt of court proceedings against Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal for criticising judicial functioning in a message to a souvenir in 1995. An apex court bench o ..

Civil society representatives Thursday alleged that the funds meant for the welfare of the Scheduled Castes were being diverted to Commonwealth Games projects.According to Right to Information (RTI) activist and associate director, Housing and Land R ..