The Prime Minister was accorded a guard of honour at the Vnukova-II airport. “Reached Moscow. A series of programmes await in this short but very important visit,” Mr. Modi tweeted in English and Russian. Stepping up economic engagement and further exp ....

 Suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad will take help from Subramanian Swamy to draft his response to the party’s suspension notice. "Have received notice, will respond to it. Subramanian Swamy has told me that he will help me in drafting reply to the notice," ....

3.50 pm: Bill can't get more nuanced and compassionate, says Women and Child and Development Minister Maneka Gandhi 3.47 pm: We support the juvenile justice bill, says Derek O' Brien 3.45 pm: Govt. says 38,565 cases registered against juveniles in 2014 ....

Karimnagar DSP J. Rama Rao said that Balwinder Singh, a software engineer working with a reputed IT company in Bengaluru succumbed to bullet injury in a local hospital in the morning. Balwinder was dawing a salary of Rs.18 lakh per annum, but was depressed after his ....

In fact, many of the speeches during the discussion had an impassioned tone. Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi said: “We may not be able to do anything about the juvenile convict in the Nirbhaya case but we can deter many other boys from do ....

But the larger goal, say analysts will be to tilt the impression that the relation has been strained in a year when India grew closer to the United States and Russia made overtures to Pakistan for the first time. To that end, PM Modi will discuss several big ticket defe ....

By clearing the Bill, Parliament has sharply veered away from the past “beneficial legislation” for juvenile offenders. The Bill is founded on the recognition of the rights of the victims, which, it says, is equally important as the rights of juveniles. T ....

 Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley mounted a strong defence of his conduct in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) affairs both in and outside Parliament on Monday. He did so even as his party MP Kirti Azad persisted in demanding a time-bound Special Inv ....

 Putting the onus on lawmakers, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea by the Delhi Commission for Women against the release of the juvenile convict in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case. It observed: “We share your concern, but we cannot go beyond the law.” ....

The other names doing the rounds are that of S.R. Nayak, Chairman Karnataka State Law Commission and former Chief of the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC), and Cyriac Joseph, Acting Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission. Sources in the Law Depar ....