A US Justice Department official said the Chinese government is undermining the rule of law and targeting the US justice system.

Washington [US], July 29 (ANI): The United States has imposed a new round of Russia-related sanctions on two individuals and four entities, the US Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said on Friday.

Washington [US], July 15 (ANI): US Buffalo shooter, Payton Gendron has been indicted by the federal Grand Jury on Thursday on 27 counts of federal hate crimes and firearms charges in the mass shooting at the Tops grocery store on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, US state of New York two months ago.

Washington [US], July 8 (ANI): Nicki Minaj's husband, Kenneth Petty was sentenced to probation and home detention on Wednesday, July 6, in Los Angeles for failing to register as a sex offender.

New Delhi [India], March 31 (ANI): Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday launched a new "divyang-friendly" website of the Department of Justice, a one-stop platform for all digital initiatives of the Department, and said that any citizen can access complete information about proceedings, orders, cases and the live stream of hearings on the website.

New Delhi Mar 24 PTI A Parliamentary panel on Thursday said due to the delays in appointment of judges a recent phenomenon has emerged where many lawyers have refused to become part of the higher judiciaryIt also observed that the judicial system of the country is plagued with perennial problems of vacancy and pendency especially at the high court level and there is no end in sight for these problemsIn its report on Demands for Grants 2022-23 for Department of Justice in Law Ministry the Parliamentary committee on Law and Personnel said vacancies have a natural fallout on pendency of cases The figures regarding vacancies and pendency are staggering One has to acknowledge that the existing process is not working and it overwhelms us completely it needs to be re-engineered the report saidThe Committee said it fails to understand that when the date of a vacancy is known the day a judge assumes charge then why should there be a huge delay first in sending recommendations by the collegium and then its processing by the governmentThe committee has also observed a recent phenomenon that because of delays in appointments many lawyers have started saying no to such appointments No respectable lawyer is prepared to wait ad infinitum indefinitely and thus there have been spate of refusals by them it notedIn a written reply in Rajya Sabha on Thursday the government said as on March 16 against the sanctioned strength of 1104 judges in the 25 high courts 699 judges are in position leaving 405 vacancies PTI NAB NAB SK SK

Washington [US], March 24 (ANI): A Chinese government employee was convicted by a US Federal court on Wednesday for his involvement in fraudulently obtaining visas for his co-nationals and helping them in unlawfully working for Beijing offshore.

New Delhi Feb 25 PTI In a first a union law secretary has been appointed as a judge of a high courtAccording to the Department of Justice in the Law Ministry Union Law Secretary Anoop Kumar Mendiratta has been elevated as a judge of the Delhi High CourtMendiratta was appointed as judge based on his seniority as a judicial officer sources in the government saidHis name was recently recommended by the Supreme Court collegiumMendiratta was a judicial officer in Delhi when he was made the law secretary in October 2019Even that was a first when a serving district and sessions judge was made the union law secretaryHe was appointed as law secretary on a contractual basis till March 30 2023 till his attaining the age of 60 years the order had saidBesides Mendiratta three other judicial officers -- Neena Bansal Krishna Dinesh Kumar Sharma and Sudhir Kumar Jain -- have also been elevated as judges of the Delhi High CourtThe Department of Justice tweeted about the fresh appointments on Friday PTI NAB DV DV

Washington [US], February 3 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States is launching a new major initiative to reduce gun violence in the country, President Joe Biden said on Thursday.

Washington [US], December 15 (ANI/Sputnik): The US House of Representatives passed a resolution to hold former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress for failing to fully cooperate with the committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot.