The case has brought to light our preparedness to establish a relationship between law and psychology. The discipline suggests a serious study about law's response to appreciate the psychological factors of the offender.

The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) just held its high officials' meeting in Manila under the chairmanship of the government of the Philippines...

Once again we are face to face with another bloodbath -- senseless and brutal killing of innocent people in Paris by a robotic gang that is recruited ...

Evidence emerged in 2014 that the IS' success in the battlefield had a lot to do with the disenfranchised Ba'ath party members of Iraq.

It would be unfair to compare the Bangladesh situation with the Indian experience (refer to Part I of this column published yesterday).

THE terrorist attack in Paris on November 13 has rocked the whole world. Some people have already started calling the attack the “French 9/11”.

The Grand Alliance called Mahagatbandhan of three parties led by Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav humiliated the BJP-led NDA in the Bihar...

An estimated one billion people with disabilities that constitute 15 percent of the world's population may have something to be...

The irony is that countries like the US object to an international legal framework because it interferes with their national sovereignty. Yet the most important principle to which the international community has given its assent is respect for sovereign immunity: There are limits beyond which markets – and governments – cannot go.

Everything we used to take for granted seems to be threatened. Our right to write our own thoughts, to question repression in the name of religion, to express our outrage over mindless killings, to feel like citizens of a free, independent country.

Never before in our history have we lived in so much fear. Never before have we suffered from so much anxiety to find our enemies hiding in the crowd.

Suu Kyi has reportedly said that she would control the future government even though she cannot be President, but she did not elaborate how she would square that circle.

Despite Sayeedi's affirmative defence stance and shift of burden of proof, the Tribunal showed utmost generocity towards the defendant's rights by allowing the defendant to cross-examine all prosecution witnesses.

Whether or not the Narendra Modi magic has waned or whether the strategy of campaigning has been faulty, the fact remains that the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has been routed in Bihar.

Do we have a broad political agreement about the threat posed to our polity by the so-called religious extremists? Or is the current resolve, howsoever inadequate that may be, only regime-centric?

It was the only show in town on Sunday, as huge numbers of people showed up at Yangon's polling stations. The shining eyes reflected voters' eagerness to voice their aspirations for change.

The headlines out of India in recent weeks have often made sickening reading. Startlingly, the central protagonist in most of these stories is that most peaceable and innocent of animals, the cow.

One wonders if time favours the powerful and if the minute hands of the clocks run slower in the cases of people with deeper pockets. The Sagar-Runi murder case has still not seen the light of justice.

Within fifty seconds of the clock striking 8:49 am, on July 7, 2005 three bombs exploded at different points of the London underground network.

The Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (Comac) rolled out its first domestically built large passenger aircraft on November 2. Called the Comac C919, the airliner will have to undergo tests before its first flight takes off next year.