DMK MP Kanimozhi was on Friday lodged in a 15x10 ft cell at the Tihar Jail after being sent there for her role in the 2G spectrum case, far from the air-conditioning and other comforts which she is used to at herpalatial bungalow in Chennai's CIT colony.

Seeking a better deal for domestic helps all across the country, UPA chairperson, who also heads the National Advisory Council NAC), in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh suggested that the government should ensure daily minimum wage without sex discrimination, weekly offs and paid annual leave for such workforce.

After gunbattles, Naxals have engaged security forces in language war in the insurgency-hit Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
Almost following footsteps of Naxals, security forces are now learning tribal dialects through a crash course to be able to connect better with the local tribals in the conflict zone. Linguists have been hired to train the Central paramilitary troopers in different tribal languages of Bastar.

Two more CRPF jawans succumbed to their injuries at Jagdalpur hospital early on Wednesday morning taking the total death toll in Tuesday’s Maoist landmine blast in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district to seven, the police said.

Union law and justice minister M. Veerappa Moily has assured the parliamentary consultative committee on law and justice that the government planned to implement legal reforms to provide people with an efficient and prompt justice delivery system, with lower pendency of cases.

A Delhi court on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of the sacked Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee (OC) chief Suresh Kalmadi for 14 days more.

The Congress on Wednesday strongly defended AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s claim that 74 mounds of ash containing human remains have been found in Bhatta Parsaul village of Greater Noida.

Upholding the right of a girl child in the joint property of a Hindu family, the Supreme Court in yet another important judgment ruled that if she is discriminated against, she can reopen the case for partition of the property to claim her rightful share even after a decree is passed by the cour

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, on Wednesday, served an ultimatum on the BSP government.
“Bhatta Parsaul is merely the beginning. Just see what we do in the future. We will fight from every village and turn them (BSP) out. There is no dearth of issues in UP and I have ample time. I will go to every nook and corner of UP this time,” he said while addressing the UPCC convention in Varanasi on Wednesday.

The CBI special court at Chandigarh issued fresh summons to former Punjab and Haryana high court judge, Justice Nirmal Yadav, who has been charged along with four others in a sensational, 2008 bribery scandal widely known as the “cash-at-judge’s-door” scam.