Taking note that there was no specific law against “honour killings”, the Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the Centre and eight states which have seen a spurt in such crimes.

The Railway Board on Monday granted permission to the CBI to probe the role of suspended chairman of Mumbai Railway Recruitment Board, S.M. Sharma, in connection with a recruitment scam fo-llowing the arrest of his son and seven others.

In the age of “sting operations” and advanced technology, the Supreme Court in an important judgment has adopted a cautious approach on the admissibility of “extra judicial” dying declaration of a murder victim to prevent its misuse and put the onus entirely on prosecution to prove its authenticity independently. “The prosecution must

Union information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni has sought the early establishment of the National Film Heritage Mission. Sources stated that the minister made this assertion at the consultative committee meeting where this issue was discussed at length.

The DGCA on Monday issued a proposed draft regulation that stipulates compensation to be paid to passengers by airlines in case of them being denied boarding on flights, and in case of flight cancellations without notice to passengers but appears to have lowered the proposed compensation by about 60 to 66 per cent compared to its first draft regulation issued two years ago.

Gruelling heat tightened its grip over most parts of North India on Monday killing two persons in Rajasthan as the mercury rose further at many places in the region with Sriganganagar in the desert state being the hottest at 48.7 degrees.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has reportedly received total 175 complaints from different medical colleges in the country, from which former chairman of the Medical Council of India (MCI) Ketan Desai and his team members allegedly demanded bribe for granting permission to continue the courses.

A section of senior Madhya Pradesh bureaucrats along with several NGOs believe the solution to the outstanding issue of toxic waste from the Union Carbides factory in Bhopal is to send it back to the United States. They cite the precedent of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) having ordered Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL)

The Congress-led UPA will counter the Opposition attack on the Bhopal gas tragedy on the basis of the report of the Group of Ministers (GoM) and a decision to be taken by the Union Cabinet on it on June 25.

The Group of Ministers (GoM), which submitted its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday, has made an observation claiming that Dow Chemicals, the US-based company, which bought the Union Carbide Corp in 2001, can not be made liable for “criminal” offences in the gas leakage tragedy, which took place 26 years ago in Bhopal.