Voicing concern over the poor state of rural health services, the Delhi High Court has asked the health ministry to consider launching a special medical course of three years to bring out doctors to man primary healthcare centres in the country. The  ..

The Punjab and Haryana High Court will hear Tuesday the anticipatory bail plea of former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore in connection with the fresh cases registered against him.On Monday, Justice Sabina adjourned to Tuesday the hearing on the a ..

The Supreme Court Monday sought the Uttar Pradesh government's stand on the bail plea of former minister Jamuna Nishad, of the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), who is in jail for his alleged role in the murder of a police constable. A bench of C ..

With court injunction on sale of its Word software coming into force Monday, Microsoft Friday filed a petition with the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals seeking review of the ruling against it for stealing a patent held by a small Toronto software ..

A judge overturned Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's move to sack Central Bank President Martin Redrado. Fernandez de Kirchner had issued a decree Thursday accusing Redrado of failing to do his job and relieving him of his duti ..

The inquiry report into the expulsion of Ruchika Girhotra, who was molested by former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore in 1990 and committed suicide three years later, from the Sacred Heart school here would be submitted Thursday evening.The probe ..

The Delhi High Court Wednesday pulled up the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for demolishing a temporary night shelter without providing alternative accommodation and said it was the civic body's responsibility to protect people. A division  ..

A delegation of Sikhs from France will land in New Delhi Thursday for the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD), the annual gathering of the Indian diaspora, to highlight the continuing problem of the ban of Sikh turbans in France.As all their attempts to re ..

The Supreme Court Tuesday decided to examine if annual confidential service records of various government employees could be downgraded by authorities without consulting the affected employees.A bench of Justice V.S. Sirpurkar and Justice Mukundakam  ..

The Supreme Court Tuesday held that to convict a person on charges of abetting suicide, he/she must be held guilty of performing a "positively direct act" of prompting the victim to commit suicide. The ruling, which might eventually have so ..

After 11-year-old Neha Sawant committed suicide allegedly over her parents disallowing her from participating in a reality show, the need for an age limit for children to enter TV shows has been raised again. While the National Commission for Protect ..

A division bench of the Kerala High Court Tuesday stayed all further move by the state-owned Kerala State Industrial Development Corp (KSIDC) to set up an Islamic bank. The division bench gave its orders after a petition was filed by former central m ..

The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking that the CBI be directed to produce before the court a Brazilian citizen facing trial here since mid-1990s for allegedly defrauding the Indian exchequer of Rs.13.3 million in a case involving supp ..

A local court Tuesday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct narco tests on Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, parents of teenager Aarushi Talwar who was found murdered in her house in 2008, after it found "no reason for not granting ..

The influential husband of Nepali student Neetu Singh, whose deportation by Indian police for allegedly "anti-Indian activities" triggered an outcry in India, says he was the real victim after his return to Kathmandu. Amresh Kumar Singh, wh ..

A federal appeals court has upheld the sentence of life in prison without parole against Zacarias Moussaoui, a conspirator in the Sep 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Moussaoui, who has been in a maximum-security prison in Colo ..

A court in Uttar Pradesh Monday sentenced five policemen to life imprisonment after convicting them of killing two young men from Jharkhand in a fake shootout after terming them criminals, a court official said. The court reserved its judgment agains ..

A consumer forum has ordered a private hospital here to pay a compensation of nearly Rs.18 lakh to a former patient for deficiency in services, an official said Tuesday. The district consumer disputes redressal forum has directed Inscol hospital, loc ..

Ruchika Girhotra had never been expelled but removed from the rolls for non-payment of fees, the Sacred Heart school here said Friday following reports that it rusticated the girl in 1990 following her molestation by former Haryana police chief S.P.S ..

As a New Year gift, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Thursday declared that it will provide free education to prisoners henceforth."All jail inmates in the country will now be able to access free and quality education according ..