SC to hear pleas to review same-sex marriage verdict on July 10

The Supreme Court is scheduled to consider on July 10 a batch of pleas seeking a review of its last year's judgement which refused to accord legal recognition to same-sex marriage. IMAGE: An LGBT+......

Medha Patkar gets 5 months jail in 23-yearr-old defamation case

Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar was sentenced to five months simple imprisonment on Monday by a Delhi court in a defamation case filed by Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena 23 years ago......

Treat transgenders only as special category for job, education: HC

Holding that the transgenders should be treated only as a special category irrespective of their caste, the Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to not bring them under either......

Women cops executed Prajwal Revanna's arrest warrant

As soon as the suspended Janata Dal-Secular MP Prajwal Revanna landed at the Bengaluru airport in the wee hours of Friday, there was a posse of women police personnel led by women Indian Police......

RBI restrains commercial card payments by a network

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on Thursday issued orders restraining commercial transactions routed through intermediaries by a card network. Photograph: Shailesh Andrade/Reuters The central......

Byju's in talks with investors to raise $300 mn in return for more controls

With investors asking for a change in the board structure at Byju’s, the edtech giant’s founder and chief executive officer (CEO), Byju Raveendran, is now asking them to put $300......

Waiting for refunds of air tickets booked during lockdown? Good news soon

The government on Wednesday directed online travel aggregators to process pending refunds related to air ticket bookings during the coronavirus lockdown period by the third week of November.......

Reliance General Insurance gets Rs 922 crore GST notices from DGGI

Reliance General Insurance Company (RGIC), a subsidiary of Reliance Capital, finds itself in a bind as the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has issued multiple Show Cause Notices......

Pistorius eligible for parole over miscalculation in sentence duration

  IMAGE: The confusion surrounding Oscar Pistorius's sentence traces back to his complex trial for the fatal shooting of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day 2013. After a......

Mary Kom named Global Indian Icon at UK-India Awards

IMAGE: M C Mary Kom with Vikram Kumar Doraiswami, 2nd right, the High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom, and other members of the High Commission of India in London.. Photograph: High......