The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Odisha government to decide the remission plea of a "repenting" Ravindra Pal alias Dara Singh, who is serving life sentence for the murders of Australian......
On the basis of her committee's report, the UCC in Uttarakhand established mandatory registration for marriages and live-in relationships, banned polygamy, and provided equal inheritance rights for......
The West Bengal government on Tuesday moved the Calcutta high court to file an appeal seeking death penalty of the convict in the RG Kar hospital doctor's rape and murder case and secured the......
Evidence of several irregularities have been detected in the transfer of 14 sites by the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) to B M Parvathi, the wife of Karnataka Chief Minister......
There is no prohibition on posthumous reproduction if the consent of a sperm or egg owner can be demonstrated, the Delhi high court held on Friday and directed a private hospital to release frozen......
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the CBI's plea against grant of interim bail to former ICICI Bank CEO-cum-MD Chanda Kochhar and her businessman husband Deepak Kochhar by the Bombay high......
Indian-origin hedge fund portfolio manager Mathew Martoma has been found guilty by a jury here for his role in the most lucrative insider trading scheme in the US history totalling $275 million......
Seeking maximum prison term for Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund manager convicted of running America's biggest insider trading scam, US prosecutors have recommended that he should be sentenced to as......
A jury has convicted a former Enron Corp executive and four ex-Merrill Lynch & Co officials in the first criminal prosecution arising from the accounting fraud that led to the collapse of the......
The European Commission said this month that EU member states should only ban "sharing economy" services as a last resort. A French court fined Uber Technologies 800,000 euros ($907,000) on......
Michael Douglas and his ex-wife Diandra Douglas leave a Manhattan federal court after the sentencing of their son Cameron Douglas in New York. Cameron has been sentenced to five years in jail for......
The report added that cult members had approached certain members of the cricket team, who are Buddhists, to influence them. The panel, constituted in November last year to assess the......
South Africa's ‘Blade Runner’ Oscar Pistorius on Saturday started performing community service as part of his parole conditions after being released from prison last month, local media......
Oscar Pistorius, South Africa's ‘Blade Runner’, was released on parole on Monday, just short of a year into his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. But the......
File picture: Oscar Pistorius breaks down during his trial at the high court in Pretoria. Photograph: Themba Hadebe/Reuters South Africa's justice minister said on Tuesday he was seeking legal......
IMAGE: South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius (centre) is escorted to a police van after his sentencing at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria October 21, 2014.......