February 23, 2009 03:23 IST
A 100-DAY plan to make the country a safer place is ready and sources in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) say P Chidambaram....
Mon, Feb 23, 2009February 23, 2009 00:18 IST
When a large number of lawyers were arrested for attacking Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy in a Madras High Court courtroom with rotten eggs for his anti-LTTE statements....
Mon, Feb 23, 2009February 19, 2009 01:39 IST
The government is set to bring a bill in parliament making it illegal for oil sector employees to go on strike.
Thu, Feb 19, 2009February 17, 2009 02:14 IST
Almost 11 years after it signed the United Nations Convention against Torture and Cruel,Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment...
Tue, Feb 17, 2009February 16, 2009 16:15 IST
India has decided to go the full hog and bring in a new law providing for stricter punishment for those involved in incidents of torture.
Mon, Feb 16, 2009February 14, 2009 00:02 IST
The Maharashtra Government has sought sanction from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs under Section 188 of the Code of Criminal Procedure...
Sat, Feb 14, 2009February 13, 2009 23:30 IST
With a section of lawyers across the country continuing protests against the amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code...
Fri, Feb 13, 2009February 11, 2009 23:07 IST
The UPA government has decided not to take any immediate action on two letters written by Chief Election Commissioner....
Wed, Feb 11, 2009February 06, 2009 02:33 IST
For all the adjectives and verbs Kalyan Singh may be using now to describe the demolition of the Babri Masjid with an eye on the Samajwadi Party and the elections....
Fri, Feb 06, 2009January 31, 2009 00:00 IST
Concerned over the continuing delay in appointment of judges to High Courts...
Sat, Jan 31, 2009January 28, 2009 02:57 IST
A committee appointed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to suggest ways to make India a better place to do business is for overhauling the system in which courts....
Wed, Jan 28, 2009January 23, 2009 23:08 IST
Even as a section of lawyers is up in arms over the changes in the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) that clamp certain restrictions on the police while arresting....
Fri, Jan 23, 2009January 18, 2009 00:39 IST
Chief Justice of India (CJI) K G Balakrishnan's assertion that judges "are not bound to disclose their assets to the public...
Sun, Jan 18, 2009January 12, 2009 23:34 IST
If the Union Law and Justice Ministry has its way,the Indian judiciary will soon adopt the Six Sigma concept to improve its efficiency...
Mon, Jan 12, 2009January 12, 2009 00:58 IST
Less than two months after it forwarded the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime (GUJCOC) Bill,2003,to President Pratibha Patil...
Mon, Jan 12, 2009January 09, 2009 03:28 IST
The Samajwadi Party (SP) has announced it will field actor Sanjay Dutt for the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat...
Fri, Jan 09, 2009January 06, 2009 01:06 IST
In what could delay issuance of an ordinance to hike the salaries of CJI,Chief Justices of various High Courts,judges of the SC and the HC...
Tue, Jan 06, 2009January 06, 2009 01:01 IST
Two years of agitation,much of it violent,by the Gurjjar community in Rajasthan,which claimed 68 lives,forced the previous Vasundhara Raje-led BJP Government...
Tue, Jan 06, 2009January 05, 2009 00:36 IST
One of the first decisions the Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan may be asked upon to take soon....
Mon, Jan 05, 2009May 22, 2000 00:00 IST
JAMMU, MAY 21: Search has begun for the new president of BJP unit in Jammu and Kashmir. As the tenure of the present state BJP supremo Day...
Mon, May 22, 2000