Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka has reduced the sentence of a murder convict from "imprisonment till his last breath" to "life imprisonment" that would entitle him for remission after 14 years.

Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka has set aside the conviction of a 46-year-old man under Section 498A (married woman subject to cruelty) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as the complaint was by his ‘second wife’ which would make the marriage ‘null and void’.

Nainital (U'Khand): The Uttarakhand High Court has said the law punishing rape is being misused as a weapon by women these days when they have differences with a male partner.

Three family members, including two women, were crushed to death when a truck went out of control and rammed into their house at a village here, police said on Saturday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that greed for power overrode national interest during the UPA government, wreaking havoc on the banking sector, but his dispensation has nursed it back to good financial health.

Amid the stalemate in Parliament over holding a debate on Manipur violence, MPs of various opposition parties have planned a protest on Monday near Mahatma Gandhi's statue in the Parliament complex to press for the prime minister's statement on the issue in both houses.

BJP Karnataka state president and Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel has urged the Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to name the popular trains of the city after eminent personalities and places of coastal Karnataka.

No evidence was found in the complaint that a woman candidate was allegedly stripped and paraded naked in Howrah district's Panchla during the panchayat election on July 8, West Bengal's Director-General of Police (DGP) Manoj Malviya said on Friday.