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Hong Kong pro-democracy news outlet Stand News and its two former chief editors were found guilty of sedition on Thursday, the first conviction of its kind since the city came under Chinese rule in 1997.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to make its stand clear on the exclusion of penal provisions for the offences of unnatural sex and sodomy from the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), which replaced the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Iran on Tuesday rejected Western calls to stand down its threat to retaliate against Israel for the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran late last month.

Soon after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, local law enforcement officers and a U.S. Secret Service agent discussed how pictures of the shooter were shared among officers by a sniper who lost sight of him before he opened fire.

Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Thursday said detailed discussions were held, including deliberations by a parliamentary standing committee, before enactment of the three new criminal laws, amid demands by certain opposition leaders to defer their

South Korean regulators will classify bulk or large scale non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as virtual assets. With this, South Korea could become one of the first countries to define where NFTs stand in-terms of their role and use in the Web3 arena.

BJP Tamil Nadu unit president K Annamalai on Tuesday said Chief Minister M K Stalin has 'no powers' under the law of the land to take a stand against implementing the CAA in the state.

Days after President Xi Jinping exhorted people to maintain personal integrity, China on Friday amended its criminal law to punish those giving bribes to officials as part of its anti-corruption drive.

Three bills to replace British-era criminal laws were adopted recently by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs.

A parliamentary committee has noted that the seven years' imprisonment prescribed in the proposed new criminal law for causing death by negligence is "high" and it should be reduced to five years.

Opposition MPs in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs have questioned the "haste" in adopting the draft reports on the three bills to replace the IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act, as a meeting has been called later this week.

The Delhi High Court on Friday sought the stand of the National Testing Agency (NTA) on a petition seeking conduct of Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)-2024 not only in English but also regional languages.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday nominated former home minister and Congress member P Chidambaram to the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs.

Eight Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees (DRSCs) were re-constituted including the appointment of Congress MP P Chidambaram to the 31-member Home panel.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday referred the three proposed laws that will replace the IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act to the Standing Committee on Home Affairs for examination and asked it to submit its report within three months.

Hong Kong pro-democracy news outlet Stand News and its two former chief editors were found guilty of sedition on Thursday, the first conviction of its kind since the city came under Chinese rule in 1997.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to make its stand clear on the exclusion of penal provisions for the offences of unnatural sex and sodomy from the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), which replaced the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Iran on Tuesday rejected Western calls to stand down its threat to retaliate against Israel for the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran late last month.

Soon after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, local law enforcement officers and a U.S. Secret Service agent discussed how pictures of the shooter were shared among officers by a sniper who lost sight of him before he opened fire.

Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Thursday said detailed discussions were held, including deliberations by a parliamentary standing committee, before enactment of the three new criminal laws, amid demands by certain opposition leaders to defer their

South Korean regulators will classify bulk or large scale non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as virtual assets. With this, South Korea could become one of the first countries to define where NFTs stand in-terms of their role and use in the Web3 arena.

BJP Tamil Nadu unit president K Annamalai on Tuesday said Chief Minister M K Stalin has 'no powers' under the law of the land to take a stand against implementing the CAA in the state.

Days after President Xi Jinping exhorted people to maintain personal integrity, China on Friday amended its criminal law to punish those giving bribes to officials as part of its anti-corruption drive.

Three bills to replace British-era criminal laws were adopted recently by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs.

A parliamentary committee has noted that the seven years' imprisonment prescribed in the proposed new criminal law for causing death by negligence is "high" and it should be reduced to five years.

Opposition MPs in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs have questioned the "haste" in adopting the draft reports on the three bills to replace the IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act, as a meeting has been called later this week.

The Delhi High Court on Friday sought the stand of the National Testing Agency (NTA) on a petition seeking conduct of Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)-2024 not only in English but also regional languages.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday nominated former home minister and Congress member P Chidambaram to the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs.

Eight Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees (DRSCs) were re-constituted including the appointment of Congress MP P Chidambaram to the 31-member Home panel.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday referred the three proposed laws that will replace the IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act to the Standing Committee on Home Affairs for examination and asked it to submit its report within three months.