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  ..

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati was Wednesday allowed by the Supreme Court to create a new district including Amethi parliamentary constituency represented by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, a lawyer said here."Since one bench (of ..

Air India Kanishka bombing convict Inderjit Singh Reyat, who was released last year after spending 15 years in jail, faces a fresh perjury trial from Sep 9. If convicted, he faces another 14 years in jail. Reyat was the only person jailed in the 1985 ..

Technology giant HP has agreed to pay the US government $55 million to settle allegations that the company gave illegal kickbacks to other firms that recommended its products to government agencies, according to the Department of Justice.In a stateme ..

An anti-terrorist court in Rawalpindi, the twin city of this Pakistan capital city, Tuesday sentenced six people to life imprisonment for plotting a suicide attack to kill former president Pervez Musharraf in 2008.Justice Raja Akhlaq pronounced the v ..

Uttar Pradesh has sought 35,000 paramilitary personnel for security duty from the centre as the state prepares to deal with any fallout of the much-awaited verdict in the volatile 125-year-old Ramjanmbhoomi-Babri Masjid legal dispute.A three-judge sp ..

The Supreme Court Tuesday issued notice to all the eight accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy on a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking review of its 1996 judgment which diluted offences against them.The judgment diluted t ..

The Supreme Court Tuesday came down heavily on union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar for saying that the court's suggestion on free distribution of foodgrains to the poor was not binding on the government.Referring to media reports attributed t ..

A right to information (RTI) activist has urged the Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah to question the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) for not giving details of union ministers' wealth.RTI activist Subash Chandra Agrawal has aske ..

The mass expulsion of the Indian-origin Roma people from France was unfortunate, said Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi Sunday, adding "I am hoping they will revisit the matter"."The expulsion of the Roma people by the Fren ..

Uttar Pradesh Governor B.L. Joshi Sunday called off his visit to Agra, one of the districts affected by an agitation launched by farmers demanding higher compensation for their land acquired for the Yamuna Expressway.Joshi, who was scheduled to inaug ..

The Human Rights Headquarters of the Iranian Judiciary said Sunday that the death sentence awarded to a woman for adultery is final, but has been put on hold for the time being.Given the conclusive evidence in her case file, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtian ..

New Zealand plans to issue interim visas to foreigners after their residential permits expire so they can remain in the country while their applications for fresh permits are considered.Currently, individuals automatically lose their status when thei ..

The reinstatement of a government employee in service has to be unconditional and it has to be treated as continuity of service "for all purposes" and not limited to just seniority and pension, the Gujarat High Court has ruled. A division b ..

A company owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has filed a complaint in a US court against 11 companies, accusing them of patent infringement.The Interval Licensing LLC Friday filed the complaint in the district court in Seattle against Apple, Go ..

India will work with the UN for protecting and empowering women migrants from this country, an official said Friday.This will be done under a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) a ..