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New Delhi, Mar 19 (ANI): The Union Cabinet is expected to take up four Education Reforms Bills of Human Resource and Development (HRD) Ministry, which includes the one to ban unfair practices in technical and medical educational institutions and universities.
The other proposed legislations include the Accreditation Bill and the one to amendment the Architects Act [...]

Criminologists have slated the nature of Australia’s prison system, saying billions of dollars are being poured into jails that fail to reform offenders and improve community safety.
Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveal that almost 60 per cent of people in prison last year had been in jail before.
The bureau also tracked [...]

A Muswellbrook man will spend at least six months in jail for his role in a violent attack on a hearing impaired teenager in the town late last year.
The early morning attack happened in December as David Bell and four other teenagers walked along Kamilaroi Street in Muswellbrook.
Sean Walter Rowland was with a group of [...]

Melbourne, March 10 (ANI): Shia LaBeouf says Michael Douglas is a “broken man” awaiting his son’’s drugs trial.
LaBeouf, 23, who is Michael’’s co-star in the upcoming flick “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”, has disclosed the 65-year-old actor is troubled over son Cameron’’s legal wrangles.
“I met a broken man, not Michael Douglas the celebrity. This man [...]

Islamabad, Mar.10 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has signed the Protection Against Harassment of Women Bill, 2010, which prohibits harassment of women at the workplace.
Addressing a gathering of some distinguished women guests at the Presidency after signing the historic bill, Zardari said people wanting to harm the ideology of Muhammed Ali Jinnah would not [...]

London, Sep 16 (ANI): A Brit thief reportedly used a pair of knickers to cover his head, in a bid to disguise himself during a drunken shop raid.

Chelmsford Crown Court was told that Michael Callaghan, 43, had forced a shop assistant into a cupboard before taking 200 pounds [...]

London, Sep.6 (ANI): British and Scottish Members of Parliament are keen to know whether former Prime Minister Tony Blair played a role in a deal between Britain and Libya to secure the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi at a meeting in a London club in 2003, long before either the Scottish [...]

Karachi, Sep. 5 (ANI): The corruption cases filed against Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s wife have been withdrawn.

Fouzia Yousuf Gilani and five others were accused of obtaining two loans from the Agricultural Development Bank for their companies in the late 1980s and not returning the money, The Dawn reports.

But the National Accountability Bureau which [...]

London, Sept 4 (ANI): Phillip Garrido, the “American Fritzl”, who held a girl captive for 18 years and fathered two children with her, may have had other children with Jaycee Lee Dugard – and killed them if they were boys, cops have said.

A senior detective [...]

London, Aug 31 (ANI): The two daughters Jaycee Lee Dugard had from ‘American Fritzl’ Phillip Garrido had no idea their mother had been kidnapped and sexually exploited by their father.

Garrido kept Jaycee as sex slave for 18 years and fathered two children with her – Angel [...]

London, Aug 30 (ANI): A filthy, ramshackle secret garden, hidden inside ‘American Fritzl’ Phillip Garrido’s house in the small town of Antioch, east of San Francisco, has been revealed to be the place where he kept Jaycee Lee Dugard as sex slave for 18 years and fathered two children with her.

Jaycee – kidnapped from a [...]

Lahore/Islamabad, Aug.27 (ANI): Over 100,000 people in India, including former test cricketers and chief justices, have signed a petition addressed to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari seeking clemency for Sarabjit Singh, an Indian currently on death row in a Pakistani prison.

Awais Sheikh, the counsel for Sarabjit, was quoted by a private television channel as [...]

Mumbai, Aug 24 (ANI): Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court will start hearing the appeals filed by eight convicts of the Khairlanji Dalit killing case from today.

A division bench will comprise of Justices A P Lavande and P B Vairale.

In September last year, the trial court at Bhandara awarded capital punishment to six convicts, [...]

Washington, Aug 20 (ANI): Jailed music magnate Phil Spector fears other inmates so much that he has asked his lawyers to get him shifted to a “better prison.”

The record producer was sentenced to life imprisonment in May this year, for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. He is currently lodged at Corcoran Prison in Los [...]

Ahmedabad, July 15(ANI): The Gujarat government on Wednesday declared that it would soon bring a new law having a provision to punish dealers of spurious liquor with seven years in imprisonment to capital punishment.

The State government has [...]

New Delhi July 02 (ANI): In a landmark judgement the Delhi High Court today decriminalised homosexuality.

A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah, and Justice S Muralidahr said the criminalisation of gay sex among consenting adults is a violation of fundamental rights.

The verdict is the first of its kind by an Indian court on [...]

IPC Section 377 – Homosexuality – IPC Section 377 on Unnatural offences – Homosexuality may be withdrawn – indiacode.nic.in
The Indian Government is likely to withdraw section 377 of Indian Penal Code which deals with homosexuality.
A meeting between Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Law Minister Veerappa Moily and Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad are will be held [...]

Rawalpindi, June 26 (ANI): The Lahore High Court (LHC) has acquitted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the helicopter “misappropriation” case.

A two-member division bench of the LHC declared the lower court’s verdict as null and void, thus dismissing the misappropriation case against Sharif, The News reports.

After hearing the arguments of the special prosecutor of National [...]

Karachi, June 26 (ANI): The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has rebuked media reports that said at least 57 of its officials were arrested on charges of having links with various militant groups, saying none of its employees have been arrested in the past five years.

A statement issued by the PAF said that after 2003, when [...]

Indian army servicemen have been advised by the Army command not to post their service details on Facebook and other social networking sites.
Some social networking sites like Facebook that have gained popularity recently allow users to upload their details for online viewing by friends and relatives.
The Indian Army is the largest wing of the [...]