The Supreme Court has held that the right of private defence cannot be weighed in a golden scale and must be judged from the standpoint of a reasonable person

Amid violent anti-corruption protests in Nepal that continued for the second day, the country’s ex-Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his wife, Arzu Rana Deuba, the foreign minister, were assaulted by protesters.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday visited Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to review the situation in the wake of recent floods and landslides in several parts of north India.