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A day after Andhra Pradesh High Court quashed four percent reservations for Muslims, the state government Tuesday decided to file an appeal in the Supreme Court.

The Indian government is not providing adequate information about the hazards caused by an aluminium refinery of British mining major Vedanta in Orissa although it poses a serious threat to the health of the local communities, an Amnesty International report released here Tuesday said.

The Supreme Court Monday ordered the Chhattisgarh government to find and bring before it 12 people who have gone missing after moving the court for a probe into the alleged killings of over a dozen villagers by security forces in state's Dantewada during anti-Maoist operations.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a report from the Kerala government following a complaint by a businessman that he and his associates were “illegally detained” at the behest of NRI hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal, being awarded the Padma Bhushan this year.

West Bengal's Left Front government Monday decided to adopt the Ranganath Mishra Commission's recommendations for the betterment of economically, socially and educationally backward minority Muslims in the state.

Members of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) alleged Tuesday their organising secretary Seema Azad has been falsely branded as a Maoist because of "her campaigns exposing the police misdeeds, particularly their connivance with illegal miners".

The Indian government is not providing adequate information about the hazards caused by an aluminium refinery of British mining major Vedanta in Orissa though it poses a serious threat to the health of the local communities, an Amnesty International report released here Tuesday said.

West Bengal's Left Front government Monday said it would reserve 10 percent of government jobs to economically, socially and educationally backward Muslims by including them in the OBC (Other Backward Class) category.

Should documents relating to judicial appointments be made public? The Supreme Court Monday asked high courts across the country for their stand on the issue of transparency in judicial appointments.

Angry unemployed residents of a village in Bihar's Vaishali district burnt their job cards provided under the central government's flagship employment programme to protest the failure of authorities to give them work.