The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that IPS officers with a minimum of six months of service before the date of their superannuation can be considered for appointment as Director Generals of Police.


6 months of service can be considered to become DGP


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Australian Cardinal George Pell, once the Vatican's number three, was sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing two choirboys in the late 1990s.


Australian Cardinal jailed for child sex abuse


The detention of Indian students by the US immigration authorities came up during Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale's meeting with Congressional leaders, according to a participant.


Indian students' detention discussed with Gokhale


US federal prosecutors have charged nearly 50 people in a scam where the wealthy paid to have their children admitted to elite schools.


Celebrities among several charged in 'largest college admissions scam' in US


India's securing of extradition of liquor baron Vijay Mallya offers "a template" for a similar outcome in the Nirav Modi case, a renowned London legal firm specialising in extradition cases said on Tuesday.


'Mallya case a template for Nirav Modi extradition'


The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Bombay High Court to decide on a plea moved by activist Gautam Navlakha for quashing of the FIR filed by Maharashtra police against him in the Bhima Koregoan case.


Bhima Koregoan case: SC asks HC to decide on Navlakha's plea


A Delhi court on Tuesday allowed Enforcement Directorate to question British national Christian Michel, the middleman accused in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case, in judicial custody.


Court allows ED to quiz Michel in jail


The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Delhi government to file its response on a plea seeking directions on the uniformity of services charged by private nursing homes and hospitals in the National Capital Territory.


HC seeks Delhi government's response on plea


Chinese courts tried a total of 288,000 cases related to intellectual property rights (IPR) in 2018, 41.8 per cent more than in 2017, officials said on Tuesday.


Intellectual property cases rise in China


The fair sex is not getting a fair deal in tribal areas of Himachal Pradesh - but Rattan Manjari will have none of this.


This warrior struggles for tribal women to get a fair deal (March 8 is International Women's Day)


US intelligence agents laid a cyber trail all the way to a fake terror camp in Pakistan, mastered idioms and style of Islamic terrorists giving a convincing portrayal of jihadis in a bid to infiltrate a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) recruitment ring.


US agents faked trail to infiltrate as LeT recruits


A Unicef official on Monday called on all parties with influence to make peace and put an end to the suffering of Syrian children in their country.


Unicef calls for end to Syrian children's suffering


With technology entering every sphere of our lives and giving rise to a new gamut of concerns and disputes to resolve, glory in the realm of law will go to those who will turn themselves into "super lawyers", in other words, lawyers who can read and analyse data with the same ease as they would the penal codes, contended the country's top notch legal and cyber experts on Monday.


Future belongs to 'super lawyers': Experts


The Telangana High Court on Monday directed IT Grids CEO D. Ashok to respond to the notices issued by Telangana Police in the data theft case.


Court asks IT Grids CEO to respond to notice in data theft case


A Delhi court on Monday questioned the city police on why it filed a chargesheet in the JNU sedition case in haste  without getting sanction from the state government to initiate proceedings against the accused former student leaders.


Delhi Police questioned over filing of JNU sedition case chargesheet


The Supreme on Monday said that it will consider on March 28 whether petitions challenging the 10 per cent reservation in jobs and educational institutions for the economically weaker sections of unreserved categories should be referred to a larger bench.


SC to consider referring 10% quota challenge to larger bench


Apple is working on an anti-snooping technology that will prevent law enforcement agencies from tracking mobile phone users' locations or read their messages.


New Apple tech to secure iPhone users' privacy


An Indonesian woman accused of using a lethal nerve agent to kill Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was freed on Monday after Malaysian prosecutors declined to move forward with their case against her.


Indonesian woman charged with killing Kim Jong-nam freed


The head of Venezuela's opposition-controlled Parliament, Juan Guaido, who has been recognised as the country's interim president by about 50 governments around the world, has announced that he will ask lawmakers to decree a "state of emergency" to deal with the "catastrophe" being experienced by the country as a result of a power blackout that now has lasted some 70 hours.


Guaido calls for blackout emergency decree, confirms 17 dead


US President Donald Trump is expected to request $8.6 billion for border wall construction in his upcoming budget proposal, multiple US media reported on Sunday.


Trump to ask for $8.6 bn for border wall in new budget


The Election Commission (EC) has formed a committee comprising three "eminent" members to assess the situation on the ground in Jammu and Kashmir before it takes a decision about holding the Assembly elections in the troubled state.

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