The Bill defines ‘heinous offences’ as those “for which the minimum punishment under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) or any other law for the time being in force is imprisonment for seven years or more.”

On Wednesday, in the Rajya Sabha, Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched a defence of India’s stand at the WTO, saying the country did not come back “empty-handed” from the Nairobi talks.

The age of majority has been fixed at 21 for men and 18 for women under the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929, and it entails punishment for parents and guardians who conduct or facilitate child marriages.

According to MEA officials, Bloom had either landed in India without a confirmation e-mail on his e-visa application being cleared or had forgotten to check whether his visa application had been cleared at all.

From new norms in adoption to foster care, Abantika Ghosh goes into the fine print of the new law.

The Narasimham Committee-II had suggested that these institutions should either convert themselves into banks or non-banking financial companies (NBFCs).

The NIA is preparing to move the apex court to ensure documents unearthed by it in an alleged terror case in Karnataka don’t get to the accused. Indian Express explains the case, its twists and turns.

Abantika Ghosh explains the inherent contradictions in the Juvenile Justice Bill that was passed in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday — how, at 16, you are too young to drink but old enough to be tried as an adult.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves for Moscow on Wednesday on a two-day visit to attend the 16th India-Russia annual summit.

R Sankar was the first Congress chief minister of Kerala since the state’s formation in 1956.

Dial a number, get money at your doorstep. Sreenivas Janyala explains how a simple money-lending strategy took the form of the ‘call money racket’ in Andhra

Mohammed bin Salman announced that 34 mainly Muslim nations from Asia and Africa have formed a military alliance to co-ordinate efforts to fight terrorism in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Afghanistan.

While the best forests have been lost, plantations have been gained, and have become more visible

Govt failed to provide a name, SC used Art 142 to appoint a Lokayukta. It will now hear the matter on Jan 4. SHYAMLAL YADAV recalls the controversy.

Both petrol and diesel are derived from crude oil, a mixture of hundreds of hydrocarbons — compounds containing mostly carbon and hydrogen, and some other elements like nitrogen and sulphur.

Efficient but dirty: design of the diesel engine, how it works.

The Centre has defended its decision not to pass on the entire benefit of declining oil prices to consumers.

It is unlikely that Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen will send them to jail.

The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the Governor is bound to act on the advice of the Council of Ministers, says MANEESH CHHIBBER.

The Atal Bihari Vajpayee government came in for strong attack in Parliament, and agreed to a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the stock market scam.

Google will deploy WiFi at 100 railway stations in partnership with Railtel. Mumbai Central will be the first station to get free Wi-Fi by January 2016

Both Indian and foreign defence suppliers are concerned about the announcements of deals and DAC approvals not resulting into firm contracts.

Everyone expects the US Federal Reserve to announce an increase in interest rates at its two-day meeting that began Tuesday. Here is why it matters.

Should Kejriwal have been informed before his Secretary was raided? Did the agency ‘lie’ about raiding the CMO?