Congress leader P Chidambaram raised concerns over the performance of investigative and prosecution agencies. This follows recent acquittal...

On the first anniversary of the Pahalgam terror attack, global leaders paid tribute to the victims. The US, Israel, and Australia reaffirme...

No arrests were made and officers said they were probing other angles as well. Eyewitnesses said the killer was waiting for Ankit outside t...

Do not become conscience-keepers, says apex court while hearing a PIL.

As many as 1,984 Indian Army men were killed in the war, according to the Bangladesh government.

Lawyer P K Dey said "the circumstances in which victim Nitish was killed entails award of death penalty, nothing less than this."

A meeting of around 190 khap panchayats from Haryana, Rajasthan and UP will be held in Delhi on Dec 14 in a bid to improve their public ima...

Terming as "unfortunate" the suspected honour killing of a youth in UP, the Centre today sought a report from the state government on the i...

Supreme Court today directed courts to view such cases as "rarest of rare" category for awarding death penalty to the convicts.

Within a week of the Supreme Court's direction to state governments to rein in khap panchayats (caste councils) from issuing illegal diktat...

One would think the passage of time would allow emotion of love some space. But often quite the reverse seems to be happening.

Delhi government has relaxed its marriage registration rules which may help couples from other states get their marriages registered here w...

The group of ministers constituted to work out a legal counter to honour killings has not been able to frame a law.

The Union Cabinet has shot down a bill to amend the Indian Penal Code and other laws with the aim of cracking down on ‘honour killings’ and...

The court asked the governments to furnish their stand on the issue and explain why they cannot come out with a stringent law to curb the g...

SC sought response on steps taken to prevent honour killing incidents.

CPM asked govt to enact laws making such killings by panchayats illegal.