State Election Commission eyes key meet on law and order ahead...

In October 2006, a timid young woman in a bright blue sari named Kumkum Chettry, got up before a parliamentary committee in India, and described being kicked, punched, abused and raped repeatedly. Kumkum was 32 at the time, and had been in brothels ...

Law minister Ashwani Kumar on Monday told Parliament that the government is considering a proposal from the Election Commission to make a provision for a cooling-off period for bureaucrats who are retiring or leaving services before they can join a political ...

There will be 55 fewer state boards and commissions on the books now that Gov. Mary Fallin signed two measures into law last week. More than 75 boards and commissions have been eliminated or consolidated this legislative session, according to the ...

On April 26, 2013, Supreme Court referred a highly sensitive issue to the law commission. India's highest judicial forum is miffed by the fact that the executive wing of Indian democracy is bulldozing their well-thought out judgments awarding death sentences to accused guilty of serious crimes including rapes and murders of children. The SC wants the law commission to examine the power of the President and the governor under Article 72 in granting mercy without offering any reason. Rakesh ...

The Election Commission should look into the PPP's complaints and tackle them in accordance with the law, he added.

A Universities Grants Commission (UGC) guideline in Januaryhadcalled for the 'revampof the legal education system in India'. In the light of this notice, the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, is offering two, one-year LLM (Master of ...

The visa applications of Sanaullah's brother-in-law and cousin were received at the Indian High Commission at 7.30pm (local time), official sources said.

Former Chief Justice of India J S Verma, who headed the government-appointed committee to frame a tough law to tackle crime against women in the wake of the December Delhi gang rape incident, died in New Delhi on Monday. He was 80. Dr Yatin Mehta, head of the Institute of Critical Care and Anesthesiology, at MedantaMedicityHospital in Gurgaon where Verma was admitted, told PTI that the former CJI breathed his last at 9:30 pm on Monday. “He was brought in with liver failure and bleeding ...

In opposition to the Election Commission, the state government said that law and order in the state was good and panchayat polls would be held peacefully.