Megha Rajagopalan, an Indian-origin journalist, along with two contributors has won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed a vast infrastructure of prisons and mass inter...

Yes But not for all Detention can be effective in disciplining students. Children love to have a good time playing and sharing lunch with friends. If that time is taken away, one will soon learn to ...

The Editors Guild of India on Monday expressed shock at the “casual manner” in which editors of Kashmir-based publications are “routinely detained” by security forces for their...

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Gauhati High Court has directed the Assam government to submit an action-taken report by October 16 on steps taken to set up detention centres “outside” jail premises. Justice Achintya Ma...

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The detention of Farooq Abdullah, a three-term chief minister of erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, was extended on Saturday by three months and he would continue to remain at his residence that ha...

Sipping tea at his in-laws’ place in Kaziamati, 50-year-old Joynal Abedin, a daily-wage labourer, looked relieved on the eve of New Year’s day.He has reasons to be glad as three days ago he was re...

The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre and the Assam government to file a fresh report on the status of release of Bangladeshi immigrants living in detention centres in the light of its earli...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned hearing of a petition relating to the alleged illegal detention of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah under the Public Safety Act after one ...