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......
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......
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......
The Gujarat high court on Thursday sentenced four policemen, including an inspector, to 14 days of simple imprisonment in a case of contempt of court that stemmed from the public flogging of some......
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......
Mathew Martoma, accused of insider trading that earned his employer SAC Capital $275 million -- and himself a $9.38 million bonus -- has been sentenced to a nine years in a Florida prison. He was......
A new factory has been opened in South Asia's largest prison. For eight hours a day, six days a week, inmates of Tihar Jail here gather in an airy tin-roofed shed in Jail Two to tape long strands......
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......
'The 17-year-old boy, who pulled out Nirbhaya's intestines, should have got the harshest punishment because he was not human at the time.''Instead, he was given a sewing machine and some money to......
Former US Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery was sentenced to 46 months in prison on Friday for his role in a cheque fraud scheme, part of a spectacular fall for the onetime world's fastest man. "I......
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......
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......
The release of Pistorius, whose lower legs were amputated when he was a baby, is in line with South African sentencing guidelines that say non-dangerous prisoners should spend only one-sixth of a......
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......