Tripoli: Libya's legislative assembly gathered on Sunday to vote on a law banning officials who worked for Muammar Gaddafi from the new administration, a step that could potentially force out the prime minister and other senior officials.
The wording has been wrangled over for months and Sunday's vote has been prompted by the actions of heavily armed groups who have taken control of two government ministries and say they will not leave until the legislation is passed.
"It's a very unfair and extreme law, but we need to put national interests first in order to solve the crisis," said Tawfiq Breik, spokesman for the liberal National Forces Alliance (NFA) bloc.
On Sunday, more than a dozen vehicles mounted with anti-aircraft weapons and machine guns remained parked outside the Justice Ministry, and the Foreign Ministry has been similarly encircled for the past week....
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12:47 AM, May 06, 2013
Health officials in India have revoked Johnson & Johnson's license to make cosmetics at a plant outside Mumbai after they discovered the company had used an unauthorized process for sterilizing its baby powder. J&J said in a statement on Friday that it is in "ongoing discussions" with Indian regulators. "We understand their concerns and are diligently working with them to resolve the issue," Peggy Ballman, a J&J spokeswoman, said in...
06:11 AM, May 04, 2013
Thane: With the arrest of a Deputy Municipal Commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation on Wednesday night, the number of arrests in connection with the building collapse in Mumbra area has gone up to 22. DMC Srikant Sarmokdam, whose name was found in the diary of the builder (already arrested), was taken into custody, the police said. The police had deferred arresting him because of a death in his family. Sarmokdam...
10:11 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Lucknow: Five constables and a Station House Officer (SHO) were on Tuesday suspended for torturing five youths they had detained on Monday evening at Muzaffarnagar, officials said. The policemen were suspended for allegedly beating up the youths in custody at Mansoorpur police station. They also tried to force the youths into confessing to a crime they had not committed. Senior Superintendent of Police Manjil Saini told IANS that the five...
05:16 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Hazaribagh: Seven officers, undergoing training at the Police Training Centre of Padma in Hazaribagh district, were suspended for allegedly attempting to molest women passengers on a bus, police said on Monday. The seven accused were suspended by Superintendent of Police (Padma) Madan Mohan Lall after the bus passengers handed them over to the police on Sunday following the incident, Officer-in-charge of the Ichak Police Station Ravi Shankar Singh told reporters...
12:14 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Panaji: It is okay to slap government officials who do not work efficiently, according to Goa Civil Supplies Minister Dayanand Mandrekar. Mandrekar made the remark on Monday during a debate on civil supplies in the ongoing budget session of the state legislative assembly. "Sometimes officials do not do any work properly and do not listen too. Then like he (Mickky Pacheco) said, they should be slapped," Mandrekar said. Goa Vikas...
11:15 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Government has served show-cause notices to two senior IPS officers and several others asking them to explain why action should not be initiated against them for alleged dereliction of duty in connection with the December 16, 2012 gangrape incident in New Delhi. The show-cause notices were served against the then Delhi Police Special Commissioner (Operations) Deepak Mishra, the then Joint Commissioner (Traffic) Satyendra Garg besides a DCP and an Additional...
03:59 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Helsinki: Nokia said on Thursday that Indian tax officials had issued the Finnish mobile phone maker with a fine although the Delhi High Court issued a stay on the demand. Nokia did not comment on the amount. In January a senior Indian tax official said there was an investigation related to allegations that the firm may have evaded around Rs 3,000 crore in taxes. "Nokia reiterates its position is that...
03:14 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Visakhapatnam: Human remains stuffed in a suitcase and two bags were found from Hirakud Express on Tuesday in Visakhapatnam by Government Railway Police (GRP), an official said. "The remains were found stuffed in a suitcase and two bags which were found abandoned in S7 and S8 compartments of Hirakud Express which arrived here in the wee hours from Amritsar", said a GRP officer. He said the victim appears to be...
02:09 AM, Mar 27, 2013
Zimbabwe police arrested the country's most prominent rights lawyer and four senior officials with the prime minister's party on Sunday, a day after the nation voted in a referendum on a new constitution that calls for more protection against human rights violations. ...
02:15 AM, Mar 18, 2013
The government has initiated action against seven senior officers for dereliction of duty in connection with the December 16, 2012, gangrape incident. Departmental proceedings have been initiated against a Special CP, a Joint CP, a DCP and an Additional DCP, all IPS cadre, and two DANIPS officers dealing with PCR Control Room and Traffic, official sources said. ...
08:52 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Officials of the Income tax Department questioned former BJP President Nitin Gadkari in Nagpur on Thursday. Gadkari was questioned over his investments in the Purti Group for about 4 hours. ...
11:50 PM, Jan 31, 2013
The eight-team ODI tournament starts in India from January 31. ...
01:11 PM, Jan 26, 2013
Dutta said it was big victory for the foursome of club president Swapan Sadhan Bose, secretary Anjan Mitra, assistant secretary Srinjoy Bose and himself. ...
07:41 PM, Jan 15, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Deputy Director of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, a Superintendent of Customs and a representative of a Kolkata-based private firm in an alleged bribery case. The arrested accused persons were produced on Friday before the Special Judge for CBI Cases, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi and were remanded to five days police custody. ...
11:23 AM, Jan 12, 2013
Berlin: A German data protection official called Wednesday for social networking site Facebook to delete biometric profiles of people stored without their explicit consent, saying they breach European privacy rules. In other words, he wants Facebook to delete users' faces from its databases. Johannes Caspar, head of the Hamburg office for data protection, said talks with Facebook to bring its business practices in line with German and European Union privacy...
03:45 PM, Aug 16, 2012
London: Cameroon Olympic officials have asked for help in tracking down seven of their athletes who have gone missing during the London Olympics, organisers said on Wednesday. The seven, including five boxers, a swimmer and a soccer player, have disappeared from the Olympic village in east London and are suspected of having left to stay in Europe for economic reasons. The London Olympic organising committee (LOCOG) has notified British police,...
08:09 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Ten senior DMRC officials and 12 others, charge-sheeted for allegedly being negligent during construction of a metro pillar in Zamrudpur, which had collapsed killing eight people in 2009, were on Monday granted bail by a Delhi court. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Sharma said granted bail to all 22 persons "on personal bond of Rs 10,000 each with one surety of the like amount." The Delhi police had...
05:53 PM, Jul 23, 2012
London: A New Jersey auto dealer was shocked to find that the vintage car he bought while searching on an on-line shopping store was built for the Hitler camp in 1942. Zenop Tuncer, an auto dealer called up Mercedes to order parts for a vintage car he was repairing, and when he revealed the vehicle's serial number to the company, the reply was: "That's Hitler's car." Mercedes confirmed that the...
05:14 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: A special court on Tuesday is expected to pronounce its order on the bail applications of 7 accused in the Adarsh housing scam. They are former defence officials, AR Kumar, MM Wanchu, RC Thakur and TK Kaul, former senior IAS officers PV Deshmukh and Pradeep Vyas and former Congress MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani. All the accused have sought bail on the ground that CBI had not filed a chargesheet...
06:50 AM, May 29, 2012
