Thailand is moving to recriminalize cannabis, reversing its 2022 decriminalization and impacting a marijuana industry valued at over $1 bil...

The Economic Survey for 2024-25 projects real growth between 6.3% and 6.8%, stressing the need for 8% growth to achieve the 'Viksit Bharat'...

Chief Justice DY Chandrachud's two-year tenure concludes on November 10, 2024, leaving a legacy of judicial modernization. His term saw the...

"We can infer that people in big cities at least were using the option to reject unfit candidates," head of ADR and Election Watch, former ...

The poll panel told the apex court that in its "Proposed Electoral Reforms, 2016", it had reiterated its 2004 recommendation that people ch...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) said that despite the Republicans’ relentless attacks, they won and surpassed expectations. She gave youth t...

If Biden wins the presidency and Democrats are able to win the Senate as well as hang onto the House, the party will control all the levers...

A bench comprising Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Navin Sinha asked the government to file its reply in two weeks and posted the matter for furt...

Zaidi said while he understands that the recommendations made by the EC and Law Commission in this regard are being "scrutinised" by a task...

The bench will decide whether homosexuality is to remain a crime on the statute books in an open-court debate that’s expected to be watched...

At a time when consensus is rare, political sentiment across the ideological divide appears to favour decriminalizing homosexuality.

The draft bill proposes such politicians shall remain disqualified from contesting polls till his acquittal or six years after serving the ...

As of now, there is no restriction on a candidate to contest elections unless he has been convicted by a court.

Law Commission chairman and former Delhi High Court chief justice A P Shah said, "Institutional integrity is important to preserve."

The government is working on an amendment in the law to ensure that trials against MPs/MLAs charged with serious offences are completed wit...

UP's babudom wants to use Durga's case to build public pressure on 'depoliticize' civil services and 'decriminalize' politics.

At present, under the Representation of People Act, only persons convicted by a trial court and sentenced to more than two years imprisonme...