A local court on Wednesday dismissed the bail plea of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief and Hyderabad Member of Parliament Asaduddin Owaisi for the second time in two days in connection with a 2005 case against him.
Outgoing Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari today alleged that there was a 'political conspiracy' to tarnish his image and, therefore, in the interest of the party, he proposed the name of Rajnath Singh for party's top post.
The Gujarat high court on Monday reserved its order on an application by former state minister Maya Kodnani, challenging the order of the lower court judge who refused to recuse herself from the Naroda Gaam rioting case of 2002.
Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari, who was asked by the Income Tax department to appear before it on Monday in connection with the probe into alleged dubious investments in Purti group of companies, has sought more time to present his case.
"I wish I could also have been there, but I can't" Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Monday said while terming the upsurge and protest that took place in the wake of the December 16 gang-grape incident as 'fully justified' and 'absolutely necessary'.
A local court today sent six youths arrested on the charge of gang-rape of an 18-year-old girl to two-day police custody.
In the wake of shocking Delhi gang-rape incident, a Parliamentary Committee is mulling recommending a slew of corrective measures, including mandatory filing of First Information Reports in cases of sexual assault and fast tracking of such cases.
Against the backdrop of chill in relations over the beheading incident, India on Monday said ties with Pakistan can move forward in a 'sensible and calibrated' way once the 'dust settles'.
A local court in Panaji sent the headmistress of a Goa school, where a seven-year-old girl was raped, to police custody for seven days.
Rapists should be jailed till their death, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said on Monday as another 'very shameful' case came up in Punjab's Bhatinda.
Nooriya Havelivala, the non-resident Indian beautician who has filed appeal against her conviction in a hit-and-run case, on Friday sought bail from the Bombay high court.
A local court on Friday allowed the petition of police to take the voice sample of jailed All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is facing sedition charges for his alleged 'hate speech' against a particular community.
A panel, set up to probe alleged non-responsive behaviour of Police Control Room vans in helping the Delhi gang-rape victim, is learnt to have found fault in the police's response to the distress call and also failure to stop the bus from plying after being fined several times.
In the light of Friday's Supreme Court ruling, the two Italian marines, facing murder charges in Kerala for shooting to death two fishermen off Alappuzha coast, left for New Delhi by an Air India flight.
The Delhi police has registered a case against Zee News for allegedly showing forged annexure of a CAG report on coal block allocation, a charge dismissed by the channel as a 'figment of imagination, mala fide and oppressive'.
A Pakistani provincial legislator and three of his bodyguards were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Karachi on Thursday.
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on Wednesday announced that he will undertake a nationwide tour from January 30 from Bihar for strengthening farmer organisations.
In the wake of last month's brutal gang-rape of a student in a moving bus, a Parliamentary Committee is in favour of bringing Delhi traffic police under the city government as it feels criminals take advantage of multiplicity of authorities.
With the deadline for the Centre's decision on the vexatious Telangana statehood issue approaching fast, the war of words between leaders of Telangana and Andhra-Rayalaseema regions has escalated.
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