Developing a unified software accessible across the country can help track dates and details of a case on sex-related offences, and for how long it has been on trial, in an effort to speed up the justice delivery system in crimes against women, ac
Railway minister Pavan Kumar Bansal presents the railway budget for 2013-14 on Tuesday. Can the common man expect any real relief? The track record of the railways in general and of Bansal in particular does not inspire much hope. Here is what
Observing there is no safety in the Capital, the Supreme Court on Friday said it must be "restored" so that women can live with honour and dignity since incidents like the Delhi gangrape are being "repeated". "Ther
Assembly elections in Tripura will be held on February 14 and in Meghalaya and Nagaland on February 23 and their results will be out on February 28, the Election Commission announced on Friday. The EC also announced bye-elections to nine a
Feted as the “leader of leaders, king of kings” by Anil Ambani and hailed by the crème de la crème of Indian industry, Narendra Modi was the toast of Gandhinagar, in fact all of Gujarat, on Friday as ‘Vibrant Gujara
Stating that Gujarat was keen to promote defence industry, Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday invited private companies to set up their units in the state. "Gujarat with good infrastructure is the best suited for the development
The market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has warned people against fraudulent calls made in the name of the organisation giving advice on financial products. It has also said that it has taken several measures to make peo
Yashwant Sinha, former finance minister and chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on finance, on Thursday asked the government to show the political will to bite the bullet by checking the alarming fiscal deficit in the union budget to
Inside the small kitchen, she deftly washes the dishes, pours water in the bowl and lets it microwave for a few minutes. She adds tea leaves into the hot water and sits down to rest. Her reverie is interrupted by a phone call. She politely answers
The supreme court had been prescient about the ghastly gang rape of December 16. In their order of April 27 last year against PIL 265 of 2011, a three-judge bench headed no less by the then chief justice had ordered all states of the union to remo
If you are a Delhiite and do not own a car, you must be among thousands who struggle to board an auto – either to avoid the rush in buses or to commute between the bus stand/metro station to home or office. So when auto drivers misbe
Despite the existence of the Geneva Convention, the inherently brutal nature is a typical characteristic of an army. In the Kargil war, there were many stories of bestiality and torture that the Pakistan army resorted to against Indian defence per
The Railway Board has rolled back a circular under which `Tatkal` ticket holders were given priority while clearing waiting lists over normal reservation ticket holders. The circular was taken back by the Railway Board after a public inter
In a rare decision just a month ahead of the Budget, Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal today effected an across-the-board hike in fares of all classes from midnight of January 21 to net an additional Rs 6,600 crore a year, the first such increas
Jharkhand Governor Syed Ahmed is understood to have recommended President`s rule in the state by keeping the Assembly under suspended animation. The recommendation was made in his report to the Centre on the political situation in the wake
The Arjun Munda government in Jharkhand has collapsed due to `divorce` between the ruling coalition partners, RJD chief Lalu Prasad said on Wednesday and demanded that the assembly be put under suspended animation. RJD has five MLAs in the
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to respond to a PIL seeking annulment of certain provisions in the juvenile law, including those that spare minor convicts from life imprisonment and death penalty. "Issue notice to r
A Delhi court on Wednesday upheld a magisterial court order for in-camera proceedings in the case of December 16 gangrape of 23-year-old girl and restraining media from reporting it. District and Sessions Judge R K Gauba said there was not
Exactly a month after Akbaruddin Owaisi delivered what is being termed a hate speech in Nizamabad on December 8, the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh finally arrested the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA on Tuesday evening after hemming
Accolades for Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, who last month won third consecutive assembly elections, keep pouring in. The state has been ranked topper in the economic freedom index, according to a new report. “Gujarat
