Supreme Court judge Justice J.K. Maheshwari said on Sunday that mediation has become an essential and effective mechanism for resolving commercial and business disputes in India, moving beyond its role as a voluntary alternative to litigation. Speaking at a mediation conference in New Delhi, Maheshwari said mediation is increasingly being integrated into the legal system...
Data shows 23 deaths involving state security forces and 27 linked to Hindu extremist violence At least 50 Muslims were killed in alleged extrajudicial incidents across India in 2025, including 23 deaths involving state security personnel and 27 attributed to violence by Hindu extremists, according to data released by advocacy group South Asia Justice Campaign...
Authorities in Chhattisgarh have suspended the headmistress of a government school after a Class 4 English examination paper listed “Ram” as one of the possible answers to a question about a person’s dog, officials said on Monday. The incident occurred at a government school in Nakti village in Raipur district’s Tilda block. The headmistress, identified...
Attack sparks protests; police deploy extra forces and investigate motive, while family receives ₹10 lakh compensation and security support. A 45-year-old Dalit woman was killed and her 20-year-old daughter abducted in Kapsad village in Meerut district, Uttar Pradesh, earlier this week, police said. The attack reportedly happened on Thursday morning. The woman was allegedly attacked...
Authorities imposed prohibitory orders across Kumarghat subdivision in Tripura’s Unakoti district after communal violence erupted on Friday, with a mosque and several houses and shops belonging to Muslims set on fire, officials said. The violence broke out in the Saydarpara Shimultala area under Fatikroy police station limits. Police said tensions arose over the collection of...
Police detained a 55-year-old man from Kashmir on Friday after he allegedly attempted to offer namaz inside the Ram Mandir complex in Ayodhya and raised slogans when stopped, officials said. The man, identified by police sources as Ahmed Sheikh from Shopian district in south Kashmir, entered the high-security temple premises earlier in the day. After...
Farhad Ali, a 19-year-old BCom student, suffered about 8% burns in the attack; police named fellow students Aarush Singh and Deepak Kumar as the accused. A 19-year-old commerce student was set on fire outside an examination centre at a college in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district on Thursday, allegedly by two fellow students, police said. The...
India on Friday said public representatives are expected to respect the independence of the judiciary in other democracies, responding to reports that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani wrote a letter to jailed activist Umar Khalid. “Expressing personal prejudices does not behove those in office,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at a weekly press...
Mufti Noor Ahmad Noor, a senior official in the Taliban-run Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has reached India and is expected to assume duties as charge d’affaires at the Afghan embassy A Taliban-appointed diplomat has arrived in New Delhi and is expected to take charge of Afghanistan’s embassy, marking the first such posting since the group...
V K Thajudheen, who was working in Qatar at the time, was mistakenly identified from CCTV footage and arrested in a chain-snatching case, spending 58 days in jail after returning to Kerala for his daughter’s wedding in 2018 The Kerala High Court has ordered the state government to pay Rs 14 lakh in compensation to...