The Supreme Court on Friday sought Attorney General K.K. Venugopal's assistance...
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's silence on the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua district. "Hon PM Sir, there isn't a day when we don't hear you speak about things that are important to you yet there are times when you are completely silent about things that ar...
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday disqualified former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office for life in a landmark verdict that will change the course of the countrys political history. According to Dawn online, the verdict was delivered unanimously by a five-judge bench of the top court. Sharif was disqualified under the Article 62(1)...
The CBI on Friday started questioning BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, an accused in the rape of a 17-year-old girl in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh. It has filed three FIRs. Sengar, the MLA from Bangarmau in Unnao district, is being questioned at the CBI office here. The agency filed the First Investigation Reports late on Thursday over the rape and t...
A Left-sponsored six-hour general strike in West Bengal evoked lukewarm response on Friday as people came out in numbers on the streets while public transport was available in the city and suburbs amid tight security arrangements. Accusing the state's ruling Trinamool Congress of throttling democracy and unleashing massive violence on opposition party ...
The Supreme Court on Friday was urged to take suo motu cognisance of the conduct of lawyers who created ruckus and tried to obstruct the filing of a charge-sheet in the Kathua rape and murder case of an eight-year-old minor. As lawyer P.V. Dinesh urged the bench headed by the Chief Justice Dipak Misra to take judicial notice of the c...
Following a public outrage over the gang rape of a minor girl in Jammu and Kashmirs Kathua, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi on Friday declared that her ministry intends to amend the POCSO Act, making provision for death penalty in child rape cases. "I have been deeply, deeply disturbed by the rape case in Kathua and all the recent rape cases that have ha...
Security was heightened in some parts of Srinagar city on Friday to prevent separatist called protests against civilian killings. The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), a separatist conglomerate headed by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, has called for peaceful protests after the congressional Friday prayers against the four civilian...
As Congress President led a midnight march at India Gate to protest against the incidents of rape in Unnao and Kathua, his sister Priyanka Gandhi was visibly miffed after she got pushed by the unruly crowd....
Congress President Rahul Gandhi led a midnight protest by the party workers at India Gate here against the "slumber" of Narendra Modi government over the rape incidents in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and Uttar Pradesh's Unnao and to seek justice for the victims....