NEW DELHI: Congress leader and former law minister Salman Khurshid today defended his remarks that his party has "blood on its hands", saying that he made the controversial statement "as a human being". On Monday, Mr Khurshid was addressing students at the Aligarh Muslim University when he was as

Security was stepped up today in Jodhpur where prohibitory orders have already been clamped ahead of tomorrow's trial court verdict in the alleged rape of a teenager by self-styled godman Asaram who faces a minimum term of 10 years if convicted. Apprehending a threat to law and order, the Centre

Shiv Sena leader Sachin Sawant was shot dead by two unidentified assailants on Sunday evening in Mumbai. According to various media reports, Sawant was a up-shakha pramukh (deputy branch head) for Shiv Sena, and was slated to be promoted to shakha pramukh soon.  The incident occurred at around

Lodged in a Gorakhpur jail since September 2, 2017, after several children died in a short span at the city’s BRD Medical College Hospital in August last year, Dr Kafeel Khan has alleged that he and others are being made “scapegoats” for an “administrative failure” at a higher level. In a letter

Malappuram: The police on Saturday arrested five admins,  including a former RSS worker,   in connection with the hoax hartal call on April 16, protesting against  the rape and murder of the Kathua girl. The special investigation team constituted by Malappuram district police chief Debesh Kumar B

A man arrested for allegedly raping and killing a four-month-old infant was today assaulted by people when he was being taken to a magisterial court here, officials said. Superintendent of Police (SP) BPS Parihar said the accused did not sustain any injury in the attack. Amid outrage over the rap

Former Union finance minister and senior Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha on Saturday quit BJP, saying he would not engage in party politics. He announced this at a function in Patna, organised by Rashtra Manch, an apolitical forum. The function was also attended by rebel BJP MP Sha

The Union Cabinet on Saturday approved promulgation of an Ordinance to provide death penalty for rapists of girls below 12 years, according to a senior government official. The Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance provides for stringent punishment of a jail term of minimum 20 years or life imprison

Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan on Thursday filed a complaint against Bharatiya Janata Party youth wing leader Manish Chandela, who openly accepted on social networking platform Twitter to burning the Rohingya refugee camps in the national capital earlier this month. Bhushan was also miffed with

The Speaker's Research Initiative (SRI), Parliament of India has released an official notification inviting candidates for Lok Sabha Internship programme 2018. The last date of applying for Lok Sabha Internship 2018 is May 4, 2018, by 5 pm. "Applications are invited in the prescribed format for 5

Another former Mumbai Police commissioner has signed up for a political party. After Satyapal Singh who contested the 2014 polls and is now a minister of state, Arup Patnaik, who was the city police chief in 2011, joined the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Thursday. Arup Patnaik, known as the “bar busting

NEW DELHI: The resignation of a Hyderabad judge who cleared all the accused in the Mecca Masjid blast of 2007 earlier this week has been rejected.  Judge K Ravinder Reddy, who resigned hours after his "not guilty" verdict in the high profile case on Monday, has been asked to end his leave and return

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked Jay Shah, son of BJP President Amit Shah, and news portal "The Wire" to settle a defamation case filed by the former against the portal for carrying a story on the exponential increase in the turnover of his company after the BJP-led government came to power at t

Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his long silence over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua and the alleged rape of a teenager by a BJP MLA in Unnao, former prime minister Manmohan Singh told The Indian Express that Modi “should follow his own advice to me” and “spe

In an exemplary show of courage, a 16-year-old girl approached the police alleging that her parents tried to coax her into changing her statement in court after taking money from two men accused of raping her in outer Delhi’s Aman Vihar area last year. The girl approached the police on April 10 w

The Delhi High Court on Monday upheld a 2016 trial court verdict of life imprisonment for five convicts in the case of gang-rape of a Danish woman in the capital in January 2014. A Bench of Justices S. Muralidhar and I. S. Mehta dismissed the appeals moved by the convicts — Mahender alias Ganja,

A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Monday, April 16, declared all five accused, who had been arrested in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case, free of charges. The terror probe agency had investigated the case along with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). This is not the o

Delhi Police have arrested a 19-year-old medical aspirant who was impersonating as an AIIMS doctor for the past five months. The accused, Adnan Khurram, used his fake identity to make friends across departments and among medical students. He even participated in events meant for doctors – from strik