Islamabad: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, convicted for alleged involvement in bomb attacks in 1990 in Pakistan, has sent a fresh clemency appeal to President Asif Ali Zardari, a media report said on Tuesday. This is the fifth mercy petition from Sarabjit, who was sentenced to death for alleged involvement in a string of bombings in Punjab in 1990 that killed 14 people. The 49-year-old Indian is currently being...
10:59 AM, May 29, 2012
Nyon: Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri has lost his appeal to UEFA challenging a two-match touchline ban, and is barred from the Champions League round-of-16 matches against Chelsea. UEFA increased Mazzarri's punishment for "improper conduct," after he pushed Villarreal forward Nilmar to protest time-wasting tactics during a group match in December. UEFA says its appeals panel added a third match to the sanction. The additional ban was deferred for a two-year...
03:47 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Berlin: Former Force India Formula One driver Adrian Sutil has lodged an appeal against last week's 18-month suspended sentence for a nightclub brawl, his agent said on Wednesday. Sutil, 29, received the sentence and a 200,000-Euro fine for causing grievous bodily harm in a Shanghai nightclub brawl last year where Eric Lux, chief executive of Renault F1 team owners Genii Capital, was injured. "We have taken this step because we...
10:12 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Islamabad: Citing precedents set by apex courts in countries like India, Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court seeking suspension of its order summoning him for framing of contempt charges over his failure to reopen graft cases against the President. The 200-page intra-court appeal, filed by Gilani's lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan, asked the apex court to suspend its decision summoning the Premier on February...
02:14 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat High Court on Monday rejected application by Jagriti Pandya seeking reinvestigation into Haren Pandya murder case. Jagriti Pandya is widow of former Gujarat Home Minsiter Haren Pandya. Pandya was gunned down in 2003. The Gujarat High Court on January 19 directed the CBI and the state government to file replies to a petition seeking re-investigations of murder of Haren Pandya. The court had said that petition filed...
01:59 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: The appeals hearing on the one-year ban on India's four top quarter-milers, including Asian Games double gold medalist Ashwini Akkunji, before a National Anti-Doping Agency panel was adjourned on Wednesday for January 27. The NADA Appeals panel, headed by Justice (retd) CK Mahajan, fixed January 27 as the date for hearing after the apex anti-doping agency sought more time to study the appeals. Akkunji, Sini Jose, Tiana Mary...
08:29 PM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has admitted the appeals filed by the CBI and Gujarat government challenging the acquittal by the High Court of 12 convicts in the murder of former Home Minister Haren Pandya. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and J Chalameshwar admitted the appeal filed by the investigating agency and the state police questioning the August 29, 2010, acquittal by the High Court as being erroneous. The...
11:18 AM, Jan 05, 2012
London: A chemical found in food packaging could cheat a man of his virility and ability to attract females, a research said. For instance, the study showed how male mice exposed to Bisphenol A (BPA) as babies became feminised. Study author Cheryl Rosenfeld, associate professor at the University of Missouri, US, said the chemical had suppressed the early production of testosterone, which the females could sense. "The BPA-exposed deer mice...
11:45 AM, Jun 30, 2011
New Delhi: The story goes, when actress Sharmila Tagore walked into photographer Dheeraj Chawda's studio one day in the early 1960s for a photo shoot for a magazine cover, all she carried was a small purse and a pair of oversized glares fashionable at that time. "Where is your change of clothes?" asked the baffled photographer noticing the absence of bags of clothing or make-up. Tagore dug into her purse...
12:02 AM, Jun 03, 2011
New Delhi: Appealing to social activist Anna Hazare to end his fast over the Lokpal Bill, the BJP on Tuesday asked the government to incorporate necessary changes in the proposed anti-corruption legislation so that it is more effective, and "not make it a prestige issue". "The Lokpal Bill should become an effective and credible instrument for fighting corruption among bureaucrats and those in power.... The entire country is today waiting...
05:07 PM, Apr 05, 2011
New Delhi: It's been over 24 hours since suspected Naxals abducted IAS officer RV Krishna in Orissa's Malkangiri district. He has not been released even after the state govt agreed to the Naxals' demand of suspending Operation Greenhunt. The State Police is now turning to NGOs and the public to negotiate with the Naxals. On Thursday, hundreds of tribals and other sections of society held peace processions across the state...
07:30 AM, Feb 18, 2011
Washington: Former US president George W Bush has cancelled his trip to Switzerland after human rights activists threatened legal action over allegations that he sanctioned the torture of terrorism suspects in custody. The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and several European human rights groups said they were planning to lodge a complaint against Bush and wanted Swiss authorities to open a criminal case against him once he arrived in...
08:20 PM, Feb 06, 2011
Raipur: Chhattisgarh High Court on Friday issued a notice to the state government seeking the trial court records of Dr Binayak Sen's case. The court issued the notice on a petition moved by Dr Sen's lawyer Mahendra Dubey cahllenging his clients conviction and life term for sedition and helping Naxals. A two-judge division bench of Justice TP Sharma and Justice RL Jhawar heard the petition. Dr Sen's bail petition will...
08:41 AM, Jan 07, 2011
Hyderabad: The TRS on Wednesday rejected a fresh appeal from Union Home Minister P Chidambaram to attend the meeting of political parties convened in Delhi on Thursday to discuss the Srikrishna committee report on Telangana, saying he did not reply to its objections. "Chidambaram has sent a second letter. He did not answer our objections that one party should not give divergent views. In the letter, he (Chidamabaram) said five...
01:13 PM, Jan 05, 2011
Berkeley (California): A federal appeals court has said it cannot decide if California's gay marriage ban is constitutional until the state's highest court weighs in on whether Proposition 8's sponsors have the authority to defend the measure. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order asking the California Supreme Court to decide if ballot proposition backers can step in to defend voter-approved initiatives in...
11:03 AM, Jan 05, 2011
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