The former India captain said he is satisfied and won't take legal action against the BCCI. ...
01:22 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Voters a continent apart made history on Tuesday on two divisive social issues, with Maine and Maryland becoming the first states to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote while Washington state and Colorado legalised recreational use of marijuana. The outcomes in Maine and Maryland broke a 32-state streak, dating back to 1998, in which gay marriage had been rebuffed by every state that held a vote on it. They will...
12:09 PM, Nov 07, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Two days after CNN-IBN exposed how recovery of fines amounting to thousands of crores are due from miners who did excess mining, pressure is building on the Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha. Union minister Srikant Jena is now demanding the Chief Minister's resignation. The Odisha government has been forced to admit that loss to the state due to excess mining amounts to Rs 67,900 crore. Of this the biggest...
07:42 AM, Nov 06, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, whose upcoming film 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan' is embroiled in a controversy with Ajay Devgn's movie 'Son of Sardar', says he hopes the issue gets resolved soon and both the films do well. Actor-producer Ajay Devgn has served a legal notice to Yash Raj Films for 'unfairly' using their dominant position in the industry and putting exhibitors to give prominence to their upcoming film...
12:40 PM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: Congress on Monday favoured absconding grandson of DMK chief M Karunanidhi surrendering before the authorities in the wake of a non-bailable warrant against him in a case relating to illegal granite quarrying. "There are no two opinions. It is a very clear position of our party. Our line is the line of the law. Follow the law is the line of the party. If somebody is evading bail,...
02:17 AM, Oct 23, 2012
Bhubaneswar: A team of the Justice MB Shah Commission of enquiry will visit Odisha again on October 31 to further investigate the alleged mining illegalities in the state, official sources said on Sunday. The state government has been informed that the team of the Commission led by senior bureaucrat UV Singh will arrive in Bhubaneswar on October 31 and stay in the state to conduct the investigation until November 11,...
12:48 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Guwahati: Accusing the Congress of playing "vote bank politics", BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said his party would take steps to seal the country's international borders to prevent illegal immigration, if elected to power. "If BJP comes to power, our top priority would be to seal the borders of the country... If Israel, surrounded by hostile countries, can seal its borders, why can't we," Gadkari said. Flagging off a...
01:14 PM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: CBI on Tuesday registered a case in connection with the sensational 2010 killing of RTI activist Amit Jethwa outside the Gujarat High Court in which a state BJP MP is a suspect. The agency started probe on the instructions of the High Court which had handed over the case to CBI and criticised the state police for their shoddy investigations in the murder in which BJP MP from...
05:45 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Panaji: Constant reportage on illegal mining in Goa in the national and internationl media would drive tourism to Malaysia and Thailand from the popular beach destination, a Congress MP said here on Monday. "Who will visit us if people try to project a wrong image of Goa to achieve political objectives? Tourists would prefer Kerala or Rajasthan and, outside India, places like Malaysia or Thailand," Goa's lone Rajya Sabha member...
03:35 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Panaji: The Goa Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the formation of an independent high-level investigation committee to probe into the irregularities mentioned in the Justice MB Shah report on illegal mining. The committee is likely to be headed by a retired High Court judge and will look into the irregularities and illegalities pointed out by Justice Shah in the iron ore mining in the state. "The Independent High Level Investigation Committee...
08:24 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi: CBI on Monday told the Supreme Court that the case of alleged illegal confinement of a girl in which Rahul Gandhi's name was dragged was found to be based on "non-existent" claims. Additional Solicitor General Haren Raval, who placed the status report of a CBI probe in a sealed cover, said the address and names of the persons, including that of the girl, were "non-existent". "On verification from...
02:59 AM, Sep 25, 2012
Kolkata: A Kolkata court on Friday declared nine suspected Naxals as political prisoners. The nine men had been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with an illegal arms manufacturing case and were said to have been involved in the Lalgarh uprising. The West Bengal High Court had in August granted the nine the political prisoner status. As per the West Bengal Correctional Services Act, political prisoners are...
11:30 AM, Sep 24, 2012
Imphal: Twenty-two illegal Bangladeshi migrants, who had entered Manipur to work as labourers, have been sentenced to two years imprisonment by a local court. The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Imphal East district (CJMIED) passed the order on Friday after hearing the case filed by Porompat Police station. The Bangladeshis were charge sheeted under provisions of Foreigners Act 1946, official sources said. Two children, who accompanied the 22 illegal migrants, were...
11:19 AM, Sep 22, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had "re-defined democracy" by turning the Indian government into a "government for the foreigners, by the foreigners and of the foreigners". The Gujarat Chief Minister took on the PM over his government's decision to allow 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail and illegal immigration along India's Northeast border. Criticising the 51 per cent FDI...
12:06 PM, Sep 21, 2012
London: An Indian immigrant, who arrived in Britain illegally by hiding in a lorry and remained undetected in London for 13 years, has been jailed for eight months and faces deportation at the end of the sentence. Sohan Dhillon, 52, arrived in the UK in 1999, and went on to earn a living without paying taxes as a builder in Newcastle, north England. His cover was blown when UK Border...
07:28 PM, Sep 17, 2012
London: Lawyers for Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton are scheduled to appear in court in Paris on Monday to prevent further publication of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, days after a French magazine splashed them in its latest issue. A spokesman for St James's Palace said official legal proceedings would begin on Monday. "It is the first airing and we will be seeking an injunction from...
02:21 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Panaji: The Justice MB Shah Commission report on illegal mining which led to cancellation of all the 93 mining leases in Goa is "factually incorrect" in several aspects, claimed an apex body of state mining exporters. "We would like to cite that a number of observations made in the Shah Commission report are factually incorrect," Goa Mineral Ore Exporters Association (GMOEA) has said in its letter to the Ministry of...
09:11 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Bellary: Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) winner from the Bellary Lok Sabha constituency, J Shantha, was on Saturday officially declared the winner from the seat after a recount of votes. The Karnataka High Court had set aside the election of the MP in June this year after a petition was filed against her in the court saying that she used fake caste certificates and that there were counting irregularities. Shantha is...
05:40 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Bangalore: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried out raids at at least 15 places across Karnataka in connection with illegal iron ore export. At least a dozen export companies have been accused of illegal export of seized iron ores from Belekeri port. The Reddy brothers of Bellary and Karnataka tourism minister Anand Singh are allegedly involved in the case. ...
02:25 PM, Sep 15, 2012
New Delhi: If media reports are to be believed then director Anurag Basus soon to be released film Barfi! has landed in a legal trouble. It seems that the film is going to face a legal battle against the Mumbai based company, Murphy Enterprises. Apparently, Murphy Enterprises has sent a notice to the makers of Barfi! about the use of the word Murphy in the trailers and songs. The films...
05:09 PM, Sep 12, 2012
