The Supreme Court clarified its order on withdrawing FIRs against student protesters. The Cockroach Janta Party expects the government to i...

The Supreme Court clarified that governments can withdraw FIRs against NEET protesters. This applies to students without grave criminal ant...

An Artificial Intelligence system has successfully identified habitual offenders at Visakhapatnam Railway Station. The AI system, named Rai...

The Supreme Court is set to hear a plea seeking to debar candidates with serious charges from polls on March 18. The plea, based on increas...

The EC was also directed to create a separate cell which will also monitor the required compliances so that the court can be apprised promp...

The apex court directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to create a dedicated mobile application containing information published by...

The PIL, which is likely to come up for hearing in the coming days, sought a direction to the Centre and the Election Commission of India (...

Existing EC guidelines say that every candidate must declare their criminal antecedents three times before an election -- in a national dai...

This will be the first state election where the EC will follow a Supreme Court order, which in February directed parties to give reasons as...

Despite the apex court's direction in 2018, the criminalisation of politics is going on and some alternate mechanism has to be found, the E...

A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, however, allowed BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay, who is the petitioner, to give a rep...

SC stayed a Patna High Court order setting aside the election of BJP MP Chhedi Paswan and said it would examine whether politicians need to...

A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant said discretionary power of courts to grant bail must be exercised in a judicious manne...

Candidates fighting elections can be disqualified if they fail to disclose information about assets and liabilities of even their spouse an...

While this is now history, 29.8 per cent of MPs had pending criminal cases, 14 per cent had serious — violent crimes, forgery, theft and ch...

The poll arena in the state maybe full of candidates with criminal antecedents but Lucknow seems to be a welcome exception.

One starts wondering whether politics makes the more educated also more criminally prone! A safe conjecture could be that the more educated...