5/31/2013: Nation: Communal Violence Bill

A contentious bill to check communal violence in the country may not be brought in Parliament's second half of the Budget session with the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government contemplating reviving it in monsoon session later this year ...

Around eight years after it was first introduced in parliament, the bill to protect minorities from communal violence, appears set for a delay due to differences between the home and law ministries.

The controversial Communal Violence Bill, which aims to protect minorities from targeted attack, is unlikely to be passed during the UPA-II rule with the Law Ministry raising objections to its draft and the Home Ministry mulling further consultations with ...

KARACHI, June 10: Fireworks over the city's law and order situation, with a specific reference to ongoing violence in Lyari, and non-payment of salaries to employees of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation are expected in the Sindh Assembly when it ...

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, easing up on his long-held tough stance on Myanmar, said Tuesday he planned to allow key sanctions legislation against the Southeast Asian nation to lapse because of the country's progress toward democracy. ...

Nearly three decades after India saw one of its worst communal pogroms in 1984, where more than 3000 Sikhs were killed in Delhi alone, questions of accountability for the alleged rioters have surfaced again. The infamous words of Rajiv Gandhi, When ...

NEW DELHI, May 2: The testimony of the mother of a victim was touching, the pain is visceral said Rashida Manjoo Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, mentioning her visit to Manipur during press conference in New Delhi yesterday. The UN ...

President gives assent to anti-rape bill Stop politicising rapes, demands Digvijaya Singh Rajya Sabha members seek more stringent anti-rape laws Artists protest against rapes, oppose death penalty New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) The United Nations Wednesday ...

Americans are confronted daily with the violence of inequality. The rich have longer life spans, better health care, access to better educational opportunities and an abundance of food. [1] Many live in palatial homes in gated communities and wield ...