A South Korean NGO said on Tuesday that it had identified hundreds of public execution and state-sanctioned killing sites in North Korea after four years of research and 610 interviews with defectors.


Hundreds of N. Korean public execution sites identified: Report


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Botswana's High Court on Tuesday legalized same-sex relations in the south African country in a ruling that said two articles that had criminalized homosexuality were unconstitutional.


Botswana's High Court decriminalizes same-sex relations


Two senior Catholic priests attached to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in Kerala on Tuesday secured anticipatory bail in the fake document case against Cardinal George Alencherry.


2 Kerala priests gets anticipatory bail in forgery case


About six months into his tenure, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has called for an integrated strategy that blends judicious industrialisation with sustainable development sensitive to the lifestyles of the tribals, who form over a third of the central Indian state's 26 million population. The plan may well be referred to as the 'Chhattisgarh Model of Development'.


Chhattisgarh CM propounds new model of development


The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Maharashtra government to ensure that the seats made available after the scrapping of the 10 per cent quota for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in postgraduate medical and dental courses are filled strictly on merit.


SC directs Maharashtra to fill PG medical seats on merit


Facing a severe drop in reservoir water levels, with the water in two reservoirs in the state down to less than 20 days of consumption, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday said that he would write to the Union Mines Ministry seeking permission to convert some of the unused mining pits for rainwater harvesting purposes.


Goa wants to use abandoned mining pits for rain water harvesting


The Delhi High Court, in a latest interim order, has restrained over 60 websites, around 14 radio channels and nearly 30 Internet and telecom service providers from broadcasting the 2019 cricket World Cup matches.


HC restrains websites from broadcasting World Cup games


The verdict of a Special Court in Pathankot on the rape and murder of a eight-year-old girl last year in Kathua convicting six of the seven accused on Monday was received with relief and satisfaction in the Kashmir Valley.


Kashmir Valley relieved after Kathua verdict


A Special Court in Pathankot of Punjab on Monday convicted six out of the seven in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua last year.


Kathua rape-murder case: Six held guilty


After de-criminalising homosexuality in India, people feel it is time for gay marriage to be made legal in India, a study has pointed out.


People want gay marriage to be legal in India: Study


The Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) on Saturday wrote to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking protection for activist Ram Puniyani and his family, a day after the Mumbai Police initiated a probe into threats issued to him.


CJP moves NHRC on threats activist Ram Puniyani


The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up the CBI for failing to frame charges even after a gap of 6 years in a mining case registered against former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy, who had moved the apex court seeking permission to visit Ballari to see his father-in-law recuperating from a health condition and currently admitted in the ICU of a local hospital.


SC pulls up CBI for not framing charges against Reddy in mining case


Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, whose postures to avoid a personal appearance at the special NIA court made news in Bhopal, finally marked her presence at the Mumbai court on Friday.


Pragya appears before NIA court, plays dead bat


The Gauhati High Court on Friday granted interim bail to Mohammed Sanaullah, the Kargil war veteran who was declared a foreigner by a tribunal in Assam last month and sent to a detention camp.


Gauhati HC grants interim bail to Kargil war veteran from Assam


The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up the CBI for failing to frame charges even after 6 years in a mining case against former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy.


SC raps CBI for not framing charges against mining baron Reddy


The Bombay High Court on Friday granted bail to television actor and singer Karan Oberoi, over a month after he was arrested on alleged charges of raping and blackmailing a woman.


Rape-accused actor Karan Oberoi granted bail


Twenty eight years after he was booked on charges of demanding a bribe of Rs 250, a former Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) official has been acquitted by the Delhi High Court.


HC acquits man convicted for demanding Rs 250 bribe


A man had to fight a legal battle for nearly three years to prove that he is son of his deceased mother.


After years of legal battle, son becomes mother's legal heir


The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday summoned former ICICI bank Managing Director and CEO on June 10 in connection with the Rs 1,875 crore Videocon loan case, a official said.


Videocon loan case: ED summons Chanda Kochhar on June 10


A Delhi court on Friday allowed a plea by Vinay Kochhar, co-accused in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) hotels maintenance contract case, seeking permission to travel abroad.


IRCTC case: Court okays Kochhar's foreign trip


A Delhi court on Friday reserved order on the plea of former INX Media director Indrani Mukerjea seeking to become an approver in the case.

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