Israel's parliament has passed a controversial law mandating the death penalty for West Bank Palestinians convicted of terrorist acts. The ...

Following the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska, North Carolina lawmakers passed "Iryna's Law," a sweeping measure addressing public safety ...

Iran executed at least 975 people in 2024, marking a significant increase and the highest number since 2008, according to reports by Iran H...

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and K V Viswanathan was hearing a PIL filed by advocate Rishi Malhotra, who has sought striking down of the ...

Singapore executed a man, identified as Mohamed Shalleh Abdul Latiff, on Thursday for drug trafficking, despite calls to stop the capital p...

An order to this effect was issued by the Delhi Police hours after Union Home Minister Amit Shah said a forensic investigation should be ma...

The plea said the legislature cannot compel courts and inflict upon them the "dubious" and "unconscionable" duty of imposing a "preordained...

“After the amendment, Section 74 of the insolvency code prescribes stringent punishment to resolution applicant if it fails to implement a ...

Abduallah's comment comes in the backdrop of a nationwide condemnation of the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmi...

A bench of justices Gita Mittal and R K Gauba directed Tihar Jail authorities here to produce convicts Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla before i...

The Supreme Court today quashed the execution warrants of a young woman and her lover, convicted for killing seven members of her family.

Congress has written to the Gujarat government-appointed committee that the state law providing for mandatory voting is unconstitutional.

The death sentence awarded to the four convicts in the December 16 rape has, once again, brought us into the middle of a national debate.

The directives for installation of CCTV cameras had come from the Special Task Force set up under the chairmanship of Union Home Secretary.

A Parliamentary Committee is mulling recommending a slew of corrective measures, including mandatory filing of FIRs in cases of sexual assa...

SC asked the Union government why provisions in some laws mandating compulsory death penalty as punishment be not struck down as unconstitu...

Lawyers from NCR are going to observe a day-long strike on January 14, demanding withdrawal of the proposed amendments in the CrPC allowing...