The Supreme Court Wednesday suggested that the government set up an independent body before which the retired and serving armed forces personnel could agitate for redressal of their grievances.The court said that the proposed independent body, to be  ..

Truck driver Gurjant Singh, arrested for his alleged attempt on the life of Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, Wednesday got some relief after a West Bengal court extended his interim bail and allowed him to go out of the  ..

 The Supreme Court Wednesday was told by the District and Session Judge of Ghaziabad that he had not done anything to derail the CBI court's proceedings in the Ghaziabad District Courts provident fund scam.Ghaziabad District and Session Judg ..

The United States says it will look to New Delhi to see what changes can be made to the nuclear liability bill passed by Indian parliament making suppliers of nuclear equipment also potentially liable.In its first public reaction to the controversial ..

 European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said he was "appalled" to learn of the sentencing to death by stoning of a 43-year-old Iranian woman and called it "barbaric beyond words".Barroso made the remarks in his fir ..

A man, who underwent 20 years of imprisonment for lynching two children, will not be sent to the gallows, the Supreme Court has said while upholding the trial court's verdict of awarding him death sentence earlier.The death sentence of Ajit Seth  ..

 A special court here Tuesday ordered registration of criminal cases against 19 officials, including senior Indian Administrative Service officer B.P. Acharya, and a suspended Congress leader over a land deal in Hyderabad.The court directed the  ..

The Pakistan government is apparently heading for a showdown with the country's Supreme Court again, this time on the issue of extension in service of prosecutor general of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).The Supreme Court Sep 1 declared ..

A 76-year-old man, who killed his wife after spending nearly 50 years with her, was jailed for 13 years Monday by a court in Australia.While pronouncing the sentence, the Supreme Court of Victoria said Peter Caruso, a retired fruiterer, might die in  ..

The central government Monday told the Supreme Court that it could not limit the procurement of foodgrain to the level of its storage capacity, as it has to give minimum support price to farmers.The government said the procurement policy has twin obj ..

The landmark trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will resume Monday at the UN's Yugoslav war crimes court in the Hague after a brief recess.Karadzic has been charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and the  ..

The authorities in Haryana's Pachkula district Friday rejected the plea of disgraced former state police chief S.P.S. Rathore for parole to supervise the harvesting of crops at his agricultural land near here.A meeting of district authorities dec ..

The Gujarat High Court Friday rejected the plea of Rubabuddin Sheikh, brother of staged shootout victim Sohrabuddin Sheikh, to be a party to the hearing of former minister Amit Shah's bail plea.Rejecting the plea, Justice Akil Kureshi confirmed t ..

The Supreme Court has stayed an Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) verdict directing the central government to treat all the commissioned officers of the Military Nursing Service (MNS) on par with the regular army.An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam a ..

The Gujarat High Court Friday issued notice to the CBI on the anticipatory bail plea of Yashpal Chudasama, a close aide of former minister Amit Shah, an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shoutout case.Ajay Patel, another aide of the former min ..

Punjab Police remained clueless Friday about the whereabouts of a 40-year-old Pakistani prisoner who disappeared from a jail here Tuesday.The prisoner, Nayamat Ali, was arrested by the Border Security Force (BSF) an year ago for illegally entering In ..

A Malaysian woman writer has won a legal battle against her doctors who photographed intimate parts of her body prior to a surgery.Surgeons must obtain the consent of their female patients before taking photographs of their intimate parts, ruled a Hi ..

Indian-origin shopkeeper Gurmail Singh was battered to death after he restricted a gang of robbers at his shop in Britain Feb 20, a court has heard.The 63-year-old man who came to Britain from India in 1963 was beaten over the head with bottles of wi ..

The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the home ministry to have all schools in the northeast that have been occupied by paramilitary forces vacated in two months.The apex court bench of Justice B. Sudarshan Reddy and Justice S.S. Nijjar also asked the hu ..

Agitating farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Agra district Wednesday wrote a petition in their blood to protest acquisition of their lands for townships along the 165-km Noida-Agra Yamuna Expressway.The farmers plan to give the petition to senior police  ..