Activist Shaheen Malik (centre) with acid attack survivors at a shelter home run by her NGO. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court on Thursday (December 11, 2025) said criminals who forcibly administer acid to their victims, mostly women, in abusive marital homes deserve punishment more stringent than under anti-terror laws such as … Read more
Against the backdrop of International Women’s Day, Opposition alliance partner Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar’s) (NCP)(SP) women’s wing on Saturday (March 8, 2025), urged President Droupadi Murmu to allow women to commit one murder, without any punishment in view of the growing crime against women. International Women’s Day LIVE: President Murmu calls for greater workforce … Read more
Representative image | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Additional District Sessions Court, Neyyattinkara, will pronounce the quantum of punishments for the convicts in the Sharon Raj murder case on Monday (January 20, 2025). Judge A.M. Basheer had, on Friday, found the prime accused, S.S. Greeshma, guilty of various offences including murder and causing harm using … Read more
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The Mavelikara Additional District Session Court-I on January 22 heard arguments of the defence side on the quantum of punishment for the convicts in the BJP leader Ranjith Sreenivas murder case. Last week, judge Sreedevi V.G. found all 15 accused, belonging to the now proscribed Popular Front of India (PFI) and its political arm Social … Read more
JKPC president Sajad Gani Lone. File | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference (JKPC) president Sajad Gani Lone on Thursday appealed for a relook at the policy adopted by the security agencies in Kashmir. Claiming that individuals, both young and old, were rounded up by the police in the past 24 hours in … Read more
The issue is not about money but the damage to postal department’s reputation, says Central government senior panel counsel | Photo Credit: File Photo Trust deficit is an incurable ailment. In rural areas, the money saved by the villagers may be smaller in quantum but the trust they repose on banks and post offices is … Read more
April 19, 2021 — Rare is the parent who’s never so much as thought about spanking an unruly child. But a new study provides another reason to avoid corporal punishment: Spanking may cause changes in the same areas of a child’s brain affected by more severe physical and sexual abuse. Previous research … Read more
Black people are four more times more likely than white people to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, according to NHS figures. When Antonio Ferreira was sectioned he says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour. Now a student at Essex University, he hopes to improve police understanding of mental … Read more