The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Centre's plea to reconsider its verdict on the SC / ST Act. In a judgment given on March 20, Supreme Court did away with the provision of mandatory arrest under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. This judgment had led to nation-wide agitation...

North and South Korea vowed to end the Korean War in a historic accord. North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met in the Demilitarized Zone on Friday and agreed to pursue a permanent peace treaty and the complete denuclearization of their divided peninsula....

Resident doctors of the AIIMS on Thursday went on an indefinite strike. They are demanding suspension of a professor who allegedly slapped a resident in front of staff, junior doctors and patients. The Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) has also urged that the doctor in question should...

Senior advocate Indu Malhotra will be the first woman lawyer to be elevated as a Supreme Court judge after the Law Ministry cleared her name for the position. She is likely to take oath as a Supreme Court judge on Friday. Malhotra, a renowned arbitration expert, became the second woman...

A Jodhpur court on Wednesday convicted Asaram of raping a teenage female devotee and dashed the hopes of thousands of followers who claimed his innocence. Of the total five accused of this case, three, including Asaram, were convicted and two were acquitted. The verdict was pronounced...