Lakshadweep MP Mohammed Faizal was sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 1 lakh each by a sessions court for attempting to kill Mohammed Salih, son-in-law of the late union minister P M Sayeed in 2009.
On Monday, A sessions court in Lakshadweep sentenced a man to double life imprisonment for raping and impregnating his wife's minor niece back in 2017.
The Election Commission (EC) announced on Monday that it will not hold the Lakshadweep Lok Sabha bypoll, which was scheduled to occur after Mohammed Faizal's convicted and sentenced in an attempted murder case were suspended...
A row has erupted after the Lakshadweep administration introduced a new pattern of stitched school uniforms, but its directive is silent on hijabs or scarves for girl students in the Muslim-majority Union Territory.
The administration has taken measures not only to control what the islanders can do for a living and eat but also to curtail their movement to the mainland, eroding the Lakshadweep way of life from which there is much to...
A bench of Justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna took on record the notification of the Lok Sabha secretariat restoring the membership of Mohammed Faizal, who was disqualified from the lower house in January following his...
