Criminal Records

Supreme Court, Parliament and voters are equally at fault for not curbing criminalisation of politics

Tuesday's Supreme Court judgment may be legally sound, but it is a dampener in the struggle for clean politics

Strict background checks for Uber and Lyft drivers starting next year in Massachusetts

Massachusetts next year will require ride service companies including Uber[UBER.UL] and Lyft to perform the strictest background checks in the United States on all of their drivers, according to a deal reached with the companies on Monday.

Handling the AAP office attack should go beyond lip service

The attack on the AAP office isn't anything that is unusual to Indian politics. Its upto the parties to make sure they do something about that.

Nitish Kumar supports Rahul's opposition to UPA ordinance

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today supported Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's denouncement of the controversial ordinance against disqualification of convicted lawmakers and said the Bill should have been passed in Parliament after debate

Shocker! 51% companies in US hire people with criminal record

Contrary to perception that having a criminal record can impede chances of getting a job, more than half (51 percent) of the companies in the US have hired such people, a new survey has said.