The Union Cabinet on Friday cleared a proposal to redefine 'rape', making it a gender-neutral offence by substituting the word with 'sexual assault'.

The move will expand the definition and include m

A sessions judge on Thursday convicted and sentenced a member of Tamil Pasarai to life for planting a bomb at the venue of the National Integration Council (NIC) meeting in 1990, which then Prime Mini

The Karnataka High Court has ruled that life sentence can be a ground to grant divorce.

Rejecting a Miscellaneous First Appeal by a husband serving life in a murder case, a division bench, headed by

The alleged rape of at least three girls aged less than 10 years inside a state-run juvenile home here has come to light following which its superintendent has been placed under suspension while a peo

A British court on Friday temporarily halted the extradition of Indian-origin businessman Shrien Dewani to South Africa to face trial for the murder of his 28-year-old wife during their honeymoon in 2

Against the backdrop of clemency demands for death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana, BJP and SAD on Friday made a strong pitch in the Rajya Sabha for abolition of death penalty by asking Government t

France's president Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a sweeping new law on Thursday that would jail those who visit extremist web sites -- one of several tough new measures floated in the wake of a murderous s