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27 FIRs in 7 days: Legal crackdown ensues over protests against CEC Gyanesh KumarOver a week, law enforcement registered 27 FIRs against protesters targeting the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar. The police uti...
‘Let them go to Pakistan’: CJP’s Abhijeet Dipke says Hindu-Muslim politics won’t work in MaharashtraAbhijeet Dipke addressed a large gathering at Shivaji Park, advocating unity among Hindus and Muslims. The Cockroach Janta Party is protest...
Not informing grounds of arrest to accused violation of fundamental right: Supreme CourtIn a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court has deemed arrests to be illegal if the reasons are not disclosed to the accused, emphasizing the p...
UP govt seems determined to use Goonda Act as tool of harassment: Allahabad HCThe Allahabad High Court has criticised the Uttar Pradesh government's use of the Goonda Act. The court observed the stringent law was used...
US marks 25 years since the Sept. 11 attacksAmericans are commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Memorial rituals and volunteer projects honor the nearly thre...
5 EU nations agree on model to send rejected migrants to 'return hubs' as early as 2027Denmark and four EU nations agreed on return hubs in non-EU countries. These facilities aim to send rejected asylum seekers to third nation...
'Disproportionate' use of force against PoK protesters, polls not credible: Pakistan's human rights bodyPakistan's human rights body questioned the PoK election's credibility. The state used disproportionate force against protesters, deepening...
Vladimir Putin threatens retaliation for Western seizures of Russian commercial vesselsPresident Putin threatened retaliation against Western seizures of Russian commercial vessels. He described these actions as piracy and a b...
Bankipur Election Results 2026: Jan Suraaj's Prashant Kishor vs BJP's Neeraj Kumar Sinha vs RJD's Rekha Gupta who is winning?Bankipur Election Result 2026 Live: Prashant Kishore is leading by over 11,000 votes after tenth round of counting. Vote counting for the B...
Bankipur bypoll: Prashant Kishor accuses Bihar Police of detaining supporters at BJP's behestPrashant Kishor alleged Bihar Police detained his supporters before the Bankipur by-election. He accused the ruling BJP of using police to ...
Wangchuk detained only to silence his dissent: Wife to SCIn a significant turn of events, Gitanjali J Angmo, whose husband Sonam Wangchuk is a well-known climate activist, has turned to the Suprem...
Preventive detention extraordinary power of state that must be used sparingly: SCThe Supreme Court overturned a preventive detention order against a money lender in Kerala, emphasizing that such powers should be used spa...
Preventive detention based on capricious exercise of powers must be nipped in bud: SCThe Supreme Court overturned a Telangana High Court decision rejecting a detenu's appeal, emphasising that preventive detention should not ...
Preventive detention laws colonial legacy, must be used only in rarest of rare cases: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court of India has said that preventive detention laws, a legacy of colonial rule, must be used only in exceptional cases and c...
Powers under preventive detention law 'exceptional', cannot be exercised in routine manner: SCA vacation bench of Justices C T Ravikumar and Sudhanshu Dhulia noted that although according to the authority, the detenus were involved i...
SC seeks J-K admin's reply to plea by Iltija on her mother Mehbooba Mufti's detentionThe PDP president Mehbooba Mufti was put under detention on the eve of abrogation of special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 ...
Action will be taken against Masarat Alam if anything adverse noticed: J&K GovernmentAgainst the backdrop of uproar over release of separatist leader Masarat Alam, J&K government has told the Centre that his activities are u...