In rural India, guarantees of equal representation on village councils are easily thwarted. But some women are pushing back ...

Madurai: A surprise inspection conducted at Madurai Central Prison by police and prison department officials on Sunday found ...

The functioning of the judiciary reveals that it has exercised its powers in creative ways and devised new strategies to ensure the protection of human rights of prisoners. In recent decades, the ...

Varanasi: After a woman deputy jailer of Varanasi district jail levelled serious allegations against the jail superintendent, ...

Hyderabad: The two journalists, who were remanded in judicial custody, were granted bail on Monday and released from ...

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Kanimozhi strongly criticised the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Union ...

Local criminal Vikat Bhagat, 31, was found guilty of the rape and murder of the 28-year-old last month and sentenced to life ...

Margaret Nduta Macharia could be executed in Vietnam for smuggling drugs. As Kenyans pray for her, TUKO.co.ke shares five ...

What Benedict stored … Pope Benedict was a scholar, a theologian, who stored the deposit of faith, added to it, interpreted ...

WASHINGTON: A federal judge blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump's executive order banning transgender people from ...

An Indian politician has sparked fierce controversy after suggesting that women in the country should be granted immunity for murder amid the rape epidemic. Rohini Khadse, head of the women's ...

The Montana Department of Corrections is considering Butte-Silver Bow and three other locations as possible sites for a new women’s prison if the Legislature appropriates $220 million for one ...