India

No data is available with the Union government on the attacks on minorities in the country, Union Minority Affairs Minister Smirti Irani told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

Twenty suspended Rajya Sabha members and four suspended Lok Sabha MPs Wednesday started a 50-hour relay protest inside the Parliament complex.

Low crime rate reports for transgender community due to lack of documentation of transgender persons in paper, leads to distorted crime records against the community.

People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said it is no secret that the BJP-led Union wants to crush journalism, the fourth pillar of democracy.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that Bihar, Maharashtra and Odisha have requested to collect caste details in the forthcoming Census.

Backing the Enforcement Directorate with an important judgement, the Supreme Court Wednesday rejected all objections raised against the ED regarding several powers including initiating an investigation, the power to arrest, and others.

A total of 4,484 deaths were reported in police custody while 233 people were killed in “encounters” in the last two years, the Union government told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged the “king” of the country (PM Modi) has ordered to put those asking questions on unemployment, inflation, GST and Agnipath in jail, while targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi after being detained amid protests against the Enforcement Directorate’s questioning of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

The Union Law and Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday told the Lok Sabha that the government can't close its eyes and blindly accept the recommendations made by the...

Days after barring Pulitzer-winning Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo from travelling abroad, another Kashmiri journalist, Aakash Hassan was barred from boarding his flight to Colombo, Sri Lanka.  After reaching the...

The Enforcement Directorate has convicted only 23 persons in 5,422 cases registered under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act since PMLA came into force 17 years ago, the Union government told the Lok Sabha on Monday.

Senior leaders of the Congress party including Rahul Gandhi were detained Tuesday during the protests against the ED’s summoning of party chief Sonia Gandhi in an alleged money laundering case.