CVC P.J. Thomas has apparently thrown the ball in the Centre’s court by refusing to put in his papers before the government “officially’’ gives him a clean chit in the decade-old Palmolein import case pending against him in Kerala.

After decades of gun-wielding security personnel guarding every stretch in Jammu and Kashmir, there will soon be a visible change in the Valley which will witness baton-wielding constables doing round

JMM MP and Naxalite leader Kameshwar Baitha, who is attending the Winter Session of Parliament and spending nights in Tihar jail, has sought the status of a “political’’ prisoner.

The government has decided to amend the law to provide for harsher punishment in case of acid attacks — with a jail term of at least 10 years — following an increase in such attacks on women.

The government has decided to amend the law to deal with the growing number of cases of acid attacks on the country’s womenfolk and provide harsher punishment of at least a 10-year jail term for the p

The government is likely to grant access to a Pakistani commission to visit India and question the magistrate and investigating officer who recorded 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab’s confession in Mumbai.

In the latest dossier handed over to India, Pakistan has sought all “material evidences’’ of the 26/11 attack case, including the inquest reports of the 166 dead persons.

An alert was sounded after fresh reports of the hacking of sensitive information and restricted operational details from defence ministry computers. Classified information, including minutes of crucial meetings and strategies, have reportedly fallen into Pakistani hands, sources said.

Providing a humanitarian touch to the criminal justice system, the Centre has framed new policy guidelines to provide relief to scores of terminally-ill undertrials (TIPs) facing various court cases a

Pakistan’s ISI is actively trying to stop Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) cadres active in Kashmir from aligning with the Talibani outfits.