Washington: Separatist Kashmiri leader and Chairman of the moderate Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq is "supported and controlled" by ISI, a US Attorney has claimed before a court. Attorney Neil H MacBride made the claim before the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, ahead of the scheduled sentencing of Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai who had set up an organisation Kashmiri American Council in the US to promote the separatist cause....
06:24 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Washington: Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai, who was arrested last year on charges of being a paid agent of the ISI, has lied to the court on his doctorate degree, which he does not possess, a US Attorney has said. "Fai has no doctorate degree," US Attorney Neil MacBride informed the court on Wednesday in a foot note, of the 10-page submission to the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia....
01:15 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday tried to do a U-turn in the Supreme Court on the issue of gay sex, saying there is no error in decriminalising gay sex. The government through the Health Ministry has told the court that it supports gay sex as interpreted by the Delhi High Court. The apex court pulled up the government for trying to change its stand. "Don't make a mockery of...
11:34 AM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: The government is set to file a review petition against a recent Supreme Court order that set a deadline for granting sanction to prosecute public servants. Sources have said that the government has decided to act on the Attorney General's advice. He has reportedly advised the government to challenge the Supreme Court that set a deadline of four months for the government to decide on any application by...
07:54 AM, Feb 21, 2012
The Supreme Court had last week cancelled 122 2G licences that were issued by the UPA as the grounds for the policy were flawed. ...
05:36 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Washington: Eminent Indian-American attorney Preet Bharara has made it to the cover of the prestigious Time magazine for his crusade against Wall Street corruption and irregularities including insider trading. "This man is busting Wall Street" - Bharar's picture appeared in the latest edition of Time on Thursday, the day on which he announced to have taken action against one of the oldest Swiss banks for having evaded American taxes and...
04:03 PM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Defence Ministry may have to go back to the drawing board and take a fresh look at how it handled the case after the Supreme Court questioned the manner in which General VK Singh's complaint about his age was rejected by the Ministry in December last year. The apex court has given the Ministry the option of withdrawing its December order before the matter is heard by...
01:49 PM, Feb 03, 2012
Washington: The US Government will not appeal against a Chicago court verdict which found Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana "not guilty" on charges related to his involvement in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, a ruling that was received with disappointment by India. "After sentencing, Rana may appeal his conviction on the two counts, but the government cannot appeal the jury's finding of not guilty on the Mumbai count," a Justice Department official told...
08:40 PM, Jun 11, 2011
An attorney in the US is paying a price for having similar name to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. His Facebook account has been disabled from the site. ...
04:38 PM, May 12, 2011
New Delhi: Attorney General G E Vahanvati on Wednesday denied in the Supreme Court that he was questioned by the CBI about his purported legal opinion to the Department of Telecom on the issue of grant of 2G spectrum. However, later he told reporters that the agency had approached him for some clarification. Mentioning a news report about CBI questioning him, before a bench of justices G S Singhvi and...
04:15 PM, Mar 16, 2011
New Delhi: Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying that Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati should recuse himself from the 2G spectrum scam case in the Supreme Court. Swamy claimed that former telecom minister A Raja, who has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the multi-crore case, had in a letter to the Prime Minister that he (Raja)...
01:42 PM, Feb 11, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court came down heavily on the Central Government once again on the appointment of PJ Thomas as Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC). The apex court asked the Central Government if the service file of Thomas was taken into account along with his biodata before deciding on appointing him as the CVC. The court slammed the Government after Attorney General GE Vahanvati told the bench that a chargesheet...
01:36 PM, Feb 03, 2011
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday contradicted Attorney General Ghoolam Vahanvati's statement in the Supreme Court that Palmolein case against CVC P J Thomas was not brought before the appointment panel. The Selection Committee meeting to chose Central Vigilance Commissioner in September last year did discuss the issue of Palmolein case against P J Thomas, Home Minister P Chidambaram said but parried a question whether a "chargesheeted" person...
04:24 PM, Jan 31, 2011
New Delhi:There seems to be more trouble ahead for Suresh Kalmadi. His days as Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman could well be numbered. Attorney general Ghoolam Vahanvati has given an opinion to the government that it can remove Kalmadi as chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee. The highest law officer of the country in its opinion to the sports ministry has said that the government is well within its...
09:03 PM, Jan 12, 2011
New Delhi: The Attorney General of India will represent the Prime Minister in the 2G spectrum case in the Supreme Court when the the case comes up for hearing on Tuesday. With the Opposition breathing down its neck in the 2G spectrum case, the government has got its defence act together by bringing in Attorney General Goolam E Vahanavati to represent the PM. Vahanvati on Friday said that the government...
10:03 AM, Nov 19, 2010
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