Murder charges slapped against 6 in TN custodial death, cop arrested

The Crime-Branch CID on Wednesday slapped murder charges on six people, including two sub-inspectors, and arrested one of them as it took over the probe into the alleged custodial torture leading......

Ex-CJI Justice Dattu will be next chairperson of NHRC

Former Chief Justice of India Justice Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu was on Tuesday selected as the next Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission. A committee headed by Prime......

NHRC directs AP govt to order magisterial probe into police firing

Directing Andhra Pradesh government to conduct a magisterial enquiry into the killing of 20 persons allegedly in police firing in Chittoor district, the National Human Rights Commission on Monday......

Suicide no longer a crime

Attempt to suicide that is punishable by a one-year jail term will no longer be a crime with the government deciding to remove Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code to decriminalise the......

UPA appointed independent directors at PSUs forced to quit

The National Democratic Alliance government is weeding out independent directors on the boards of public-sector undertakings (PSUs). At least nine independent directors of PSUs, including Indian......