MTN may quit talks with Reliance Communications: Report The Times Of India | LONDON: Caught in the middle of the Indian billionaire Ambani siblings' feud, South African telecom giant MTN is mulling walking away from talks for a possible amalgamation with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications, a report said on M...
'New Indian law graduates ready for global competition' The Times Of India | LONDON: Indian Law Minister Hans Raj Bhardwaj has said there is no reason for lawyers to fear the liberalisation of India's legal services sector, saying lawyers graduating from newly-set up national law schools are now "ready to compete...
PF scam: SC looks to probe judges but avoid scandal The Times Of India | 8 Jul 2008, 0344 hrs IST,TNN NEW DELHI: Faced with accusations having the potential to unhinge the traditional public perception of the judiciary's clean image, the SC on Monday decided to examine the possi...
Bofors case: Ex-foreign minister faces action The Times Of India | 8 Jul 2008, 0331 hrs IST,TNN NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday ordered criminal prosecution of former foreign minister Madhavsinh Solanki for his alleged attempt to scuttle the probe in the Bofors pay-off ...
Judicial activism not a bad idea to fill up for policy shortcomings The Times Of India | Recently, the Supreme Court has put an interim stay on an edict of the Delhi High Court. The high court directive had imposed a penalty of Rs 500 on violations of traffic rules, ov...
Mumbai Police hit-man fears he will be hit The Statesman | MUMBAI, July 7: Controversial hit-man of Mumbai police Mr Pradeep Sharma who has gunned down over 100 gangsters in his career perceives threat to his life from the Chota Rajan gang. He said this in a petition to the Maharashtra governor Mr SC Jamee...
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India's gay rights movement comes out San Fransisco Chronicle | (07-02) 04:00 PDT New Delhi - -- | Aggrieved Indians have long taken their causes to the streets. From Mohandas Gandhi's nationalist campaigns to contemporary marches against rac...
India: Protect Honored Kashmiri Rights Lawyer From Attacks Human Rights | (New York, July 1, 2008) – The Jammu and Kashmir state government should protect Parvez Imroz, an award-winning human rights lawyer who survived an armed attack on June 30 in Sri...
HC puts Bachchan on notice for smoking The Statesman Press Trust of India | PANAJI, June 30: The Goa Bench of Mumbai High Court today issued notice to megastar Amitabh Bachchan and others for allegedly violating the Anti-Tobacco Act....
Q&A: 'Sarpanch of a panchayat with zero crime' The Times Of India | 7 Jul 2008, 0041 hrs IST From Jodhpur, Savita Rathi was married into a family in Gopalpura village in Churu district, Rajasthan. She became sarpanch of Gopalpura gram panchayat by winning the 2005 elections...
Young lawyers returning to domestic legal firms The Times Of India | NEW DELHI: In a reversal of trend, young lawyers, who earlier queued up to join the Legal Process Outsourcing (LPOs) outfits in search of fatter pack packets, are returning to domestic fi...
Notice to CBI chief in Salem case The Times Of India | NEW DELHI: A Delhi court issued notice to the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday, seeking his response as to why underworld don Abu Salem was extradited ins...
Sobhraj finds love in Nepal, with a 20-year-old The Times Of India | KATHMANDU: The 64-year-old has cast the remnants of his old charm from behind bars on a Nepali belle and the two are now engaged. It is a winter-spring romance with Sobhraj's new love being a 20-year-old who has just completed school and was toying with the idea of pursuing a career in ...
Icann makes a very British compromise over net policing The Guardian | The IGF was set up to help the bodies that govern the internet become more democratically minded and more globally focused | The internet is currently unpoliced. The nearest it has to a governing body is the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) of stakeholders - carriers, ISPs, academics, civil society, governments and international organisations - wh...
