Top cases on the United States Supreme Court's docketThe U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing significant cases. These cases cover voting rights, presidential authority, immigration policies, and g...
20 May, 2026, 05.09 PM IST
India’s invisible workforce gets a new safety net: Key labour reforms for migrant employees decodedIndia's inter-state migrant workers gain significant protections under new labour code rules notified on May 8, 2026. The Occupational Safe...
15 May, 2026, 03.00 PM IST
Boarding moving trains may soon cost you Rs 2,000, RPF mulling on-the-spot fines: ReportCommuters face new fines for boarding or alighting from moving trains. The Railway Protection Force is introducing penalties up to Rs 2,000...
06 May, 2026, 09.47 PM IST
Israel passes law imposing death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror attacks, US respects its 'right'Israel's parliament has passed a controversial law mandating the death penalty for West Bank Palestinians convicted of terrorist acts. The ...
31 Mar, 2026, 07.07 AM IST
Tyler Robinson: What to know about Charlie Kirk’s accused killer and the push for death penaltyUtah prosecutors plan to seek capital punishment for Tyler Robinson. He is accused of assassinating right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. Kirk ...
17 Sep, 2025, 03.50 PM IST
Centre finds death penalty clause in Aparajita Bill 'excessively harsh', Guv sends it back to stateWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose has returned the Aparajita Bill to the state government due to serious objections raised by the Centre...
25 Jul, 2025, 04.03 PM IST
Let us know if any prosecution carried out under death penalty provision of SC/ST Act: SC to AGA 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 ...
13 Feb, 2024, 07.59 PM IST
Iranian teen injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a head scarf has died, state media saysState media reported on Saturday that a teenage girl from Iran, who was injured in a mysterious incident on the Tehran Metro while not wear...
28 Oct, 2023, 01.43 PM IST
Singapore executes third prisoner in 2 weeks for drug traffickingSingapore executed a man, identified as Mohamed Shalleh Abdul Latiff, on Thursday for drug trafficking, despite calls to stop the capital p...
03 Aug, 2023, 11.19 AM IST
Amnesty: Executions worldwide increased by 53% in 2022, rose in Iran, Saudi ArabiaAmnesty said 70% of the executions in the Middle East and North Africa were carried out in Iran, where their numbers rose by 83% from 314 i...
17 May, 2023, 03.31 AM IST
DDMA imposes Rs 500 fine for not wearing masks in DelhiAs the Covid cases in Delhi rise again, the DDMA has brought back the penalty on not wearing of masks.
20 Apr, 2022, 04.25 PM IST
SC seeks Centre's reply on plea challenging mandatory death penalty under SC/ST ActThe plea said the legislature cannot compel courts and inflict upon them the "dubious" and "unconscionable" duty of imposing a "preordained...
10 May, 2019, 11.26 PM IST
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh announces an annual dope test for government officialsCaptain Amarinder Singh has also directed the Chief Secretary to work out modalities and have the necessary notification issued well on tim...
04 Jul, 2018, 09.51 PM IST
Farooq Abdullah wants bill to award death penalty for raping minorsAbduallah'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...
15 Apr, 2018, 07.59 PM IST
Delhi gang rape case: Eminent lawyers scoff at call for death sentenceEminent lawyers, such as Ram Jethmalani and Sushil Kumar, have scoffed at the demand for death sentence for the accuseds.
24 Dec, 2012, 09.42 AM IST
Why mandatory death penalty be not abolished? Supreme Court asksSC asked the Union government why provisions in some laws mandating compulsory death penalty as punishment be not struck down as unconstitu...
02 Dec, 2012, 03.09 AM IST
- Indian gets death penalty for killing fellow countryman in Singapore
Periyasamy Devarajan, 20, who was accused of killing 31-year-old Raju Arivazhagan on Feb 8 this year, was convicted by a court yesterday.
15 Feb, 2012, 01.29 PM IST