Agreeing to the prosecution’s argument for awarding the maximum punishment provided under the amended law, a Fast Track court here on Tuesday sentenced Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav to imprisonment for his whole life, for sexually assaulting a woman executive last ....

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) was responding to a petition filed by the BJP leader in the Supreme Court challenging the various provisions of the Indian Penal Code dealing with hate speech. Dr. Swamy said they posed an unreasonable restriction to the funda ....

Rajan, 55, was to be taken to India by a special aircraft last night but it was deferred till Wednesday. Local authorities had closed the Ngurah Rai International Airport late Tuesday due to a large ash cloud drifting from Mount Rinjani — an active volcano on t ....

 Leslie Udwin, who made the critically acclaimed documentary India’s Daughter, has voiced her support for protests organised against Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to London on November 12. Ms. Udwin however insisted that has not been personally in ....

The results have also put the Sena in a tight spot as it falls nine short of majority. The party is caught in a fix as it would either have to depend on nine independents of which three are supported by All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) or will have to appr ....

The 11-member delegation that met Ms. Gandhi included former TNCC chiefs M. Krishnasswamy, K.V. Thangkabalu and Kumari Anandan and Cuddalore veteran K.S. Alagiri. “The delegation sought Elangovan’s removal ahead of next year’s crucial Assembly election ....

Official sources in the PCB told PTI that Mr. Khan –– a former career diplomat and expert on Indo-Pak relations –– was not amused with the language used in the letter by the ministry, which also released a detailed statement about it including th ....

 The RSS was not involved in Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination but was guilty of “distributing sweets” after the incident, India’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel believed. The Sardar — whose 140th birth anniversary was celebr ....

According to a CBI official, a joint team of officers from CBI, Mumbai Police and Delhi Police left on Saturday night for Indonesia. “They would be formally seeking deportation of Rajan, and would comply with all legal requirements,” he said. The team dep ....

Turning tables on the Congress and the left, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday accused them of practising “ideological intolerance” towards the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and trying to project India as an intolerant society thr ....