6-yr-old deposes in court to get her rapist sentenced

A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has sentenced a man to 20 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for raping a minor girl in 2021, relying on the deposition of the six-year-old victim and other......

HC orders CBI, police joint probe into attack on ED officials

The Calcutta high court on Wednesday ordered formation of a joint special investigation team of Central Bureau of Investigation and the West Bengal police to probe an attack on Enforcement......

Judges shouldn't preach: SC slams HC's observations on adolescent girls

The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that certain paragraphs in a Calcutta high court verdict, which advised adolescent girls to "control sexual urges", were "problematic" and writing such......

'Had he been insane, he would have shot everyone'

'How was it possible for Singh to have got a government job, and that too one involving the handling of guns, had he been insane?' IMAGE: Chetan Singh accused for killing four people including his......

Why the child labour law should not be amended

The proposed changes to the child labour law to allow children and adolescents to work for their families would be most retrograde and regressive, say Shinzani Jain and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.......

India is proficient in making laws but lax in enforcing them

The loudest criticism of the new black money law is that while it is meant to prosecute and punish Indians with illegal foreign incomes and assets, the much bigger problem of black money in the......

'Drink & drive' may now cost you Rs 15,000

Govt mulls hefty penalty and suspension of licence for traffic rule violations Are you a multitasker, trying to save time by talking on your mobile phone while driving? You might soon have to pay a......

Delhi Police records statement of WFI chief Brij Bhushan

IMAGE: Bajrang Punia seeks blessings from supporters during the wrestlers' sit-in protest against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, on......