The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the petition of a British scribe for transfer of her rape case from the Rajasthan high court to Delhi, but directed the state government to give her police protection when she visits the state for court hearing.

The Centre has asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to take urgent political steps to address the grim law and order situation in the Valley. While rushing additional Central forces to the state, a senior home ministry official observed that Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah needs to be “politically more active”

The Madras high court has restrained authorities from banning fishing in and around Pulicat and Ennore for 15 to 20 days when rockets are launched from Sriharikota.
A division bench comprising Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice K.K. Sasidharan granted the interim injunction on a petition filed by the South Indian Fishermen Federation (SIFF).

The legal fraternity was in shock on Thursday after a 25-year-old advocate was stabbed to death in the Karnataka high court, paying with her life for either rejecting the advances of her alleged paramour or subjected to a murderous fit of jealousy.

The first day of the two-day shutdown called by the Maoists in five states passed off without any violent incidents in Bihar and Jharkhand on Wednesday, but there was palpable fear in both the states as normal life was badly hit due to severe restrictions of public transport systems.

Michael Bobby-trained Bold Success was brilliantly ridden by Deep Shanker to claim the Grey Gaston Trophy, the feature event of the races on Wednesday, in a blanket finish beating the fancied duo Aspiring Seven and Mystic Enchantress.

Swami Agnivesh, who was mediating the peace talks between the government and the Maoists, claimed that the Maoists were on the verge of declaring a date for a 72-hour ceasefire as the government had demanded, just before the death of the CPI(Maoist) country spokesperson Cherukuri Rajkumar, alias Azad. During his visit to

Uruguay have been the biggest villains of the 2010 Fifa World Cup. They sent home team Bafana Bafana packing in the Group Stages. If that wasn’t enough, they followed it by ending the hopes, in most controversial circumstances one might add, of the continent’s last team — whom the fans here had cheered as their own even naming them Baf-Ghana Baf-Ghana.

In the wake of a Maoist threat to its trains and the Union home ministry issuing an alert to it, the Railways has decided to increase the security measures for its trains, particularly those that run through Naxal-affected states.

Indian-origin Tory peer Lord Raj Bagri has given up his seat in the House of Lords in order to keep his non-domiciled tax status.