'The American electorate are forced to choose between a shop-soiled spokesperson of crony establishmentarianism and an outlandish boor of a showman, who should never have been where he is now.'
US Senators Christopher Dodd, Connecticut Democrat and John Cornyn, Texas Republican have launched an attempt to revive the largely comatose US Senate India Caucus.
The Pakistan Muslim League-N, headed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, has decided to pull out of the coalition government in Pakistan over the judges row.Several rounds of talks between the PML-N and the Pakistan People's Party, which heads the coalition government, have hitherto failed to resolve the issue of restoration of judges, sacked by President Pervez Musharraf during last year's emergency. However, Sharif added that the PML-N would remain in the coalition.
A much delayed bill which provides for a mechanism for investigation against judges was passed in the Lok Sabha amid din created by pro-Telangana members.
Sebi has time and again voiced its concerns over higher agents' fees.
Arrogance can never be strength. It is a mask for lack of confidence. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's press conference on December 14 only reaffirms this. Hope the Aam Aadmi Party learns this lesson as well, says Arun Jaitley
The Delhi Police had closed this case in 1994 for want of evidence.
'To suggest that activists -- and that too 'five star activists' -- are driving the courts, is to betray an ignorance of the functioning of the legal system of the most gross kind,' says Senior Advocate and former Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising.
Dalit leader Udit Raj, who is campaigning against Team Anna's version of the Lokpal Bill, on Tuesday demanded that corporates, NGOs and media should be brought under the anti-corruption ombudsman to make the law "more effective". "If there is no representation of plurality, I don't think this law will be successful," the National Chairman of All India Confederation of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Organisations said.
A day after the Rajya Sabha voted for his impeachment, Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta high court on Friday said he would move the Supreme Court if the Lok Sabha also decided on his ouster and ruled out his resignation.
Facing impeachment on charges of corruption and judicial misconduct, Sikkim high court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran resigned on Friday from the post.
The bench said it will take up the matter for hearing on Thursday.
Senior United States lawmakers told a Capitol Hill conference that India was crucial for stability in Afghanistan and the region as US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces prepare to withdraw from that war ravaged country.
Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Monday retracted from his statement that the prime minister should come within the ambit of Lokpal, as the party distanced itself from his remarks.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, who is a member of the newly constituted 10 member draft committee of the Lokpal Bill along with his father Shanti Bhushan, has decided to move a criminal contempt petition in the Supreme Court on Monday."I am moving a criminal contempt petition in the Supreme Court against those who have brought out a controversial CD against my father Shanti Bhushan with the intention of maligning his name," Prashant Bushan said.
On the eve of the maiden meeting of the 10-member joint committee on Saturday to draft the Lokpal bill, government on Friday said it has an open mind on the issue.
India needs strong action against corruption, Janata Dal - United president Sharad Yadav, the convener of the National Democratic Alliance, tells Gyan Varma
J-1 visa, Green Card backlog issues permeate AAPI conference. Aziz Haniffa reports
From the Aadhaar verdict to #MeToo's arrival in the country to the entry into the Sabarimala temple -- India had a newsworthy 2018. As we step into 2019, these are the top moments from the year gone by.
The Congress, on Monday, sought to disapprove the opposition move to impeach Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran saying it is not proper to air opinion on a matter which is under consideration of the apex court.
The Obama administration on Saturday launched a probe into high-profile leaks of classified national security secrets to journalists and writers.
A Parliamentary Committee has expressed serious concern over 855 vacant posts in the country's premier investigation agency Central Bureau of Investigation and recommended strategic steps on a war-footing to fill them.
Mohammad Sajjad profiles Professor Riazur Rahman Sherwani, 94, versatile mind, intrepid intellectual.
'My question is not why he has accepted the governorship, my question is why did the government offer it to him? By his accepting it, an impression is sought to be created that judges are no better than anyone else and will accept anything.' Fali Nariman, the legendary lawyer, speaks on the controversy over the National Judicial Appointments Bill and former Chief Jusice P Sathasivam's appointment as Kerala governor in an exclusive interview.
Saroj Kumar Rath, author of the newly-published book Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks, speaks to Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa.
Saroj Kumar Rath, author of the newly-published book Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks, speaks to Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa.
US prosecutors may find it difficult to get a number of the people they have charged in the FIFA bribery scandal to face the music.
Denying any sexual harassment of a young woman law intern, former Supreme Court judge Justice A K Ganguly on Friday said he was "shocked and shattered" by the charges against him.
A New York-based civil rights organisation on Thursday told the United S Congress how Asian American voters, including Indian Americans, faced hurdles in 11 states and in the District of Columbia during the 2008 presidential elections that prevented them from exercising their franchise
Delhi's air is a desperate problem, but some of the solutions have been too desperate and unthinking.
The resolution urges Americans to commemorate the impact that King's trip to India in 1959 and his study of Gandhian philosophy had in shaping the Civil Rights Movement and creating political climate necessary to pass legislation to expand civil rights and voting rights for all Americans.
Under attack from the international community for not reining in terrorist outfits, Pakistan on Thursday said that it will not allow use of its territory for terror activities."I assure you and I assure the House that I will never ever allow my soil, Pakistani soil to be used for terror activities," Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.Terming the Mumbai incident as 'unfortunate', Gilani said, "We condemn terrorism."
Following objection from petitioners who claimed conflict of interest.
Asserting the supremacy of Parliament and the Constitution and declaring them to be non-negotiable, the government on Wednesday got the backing of all political parties to reject the demands of Anna Hazare and his companions on the Jan Lokpal Bill and the demand that it should be presented in the House and passed in the current session of Parliament.
The Supreme Court on Friday snubbed the special committee of the Punjab Assembly for usurping judicial functions in passing certain directions at the time of expelling former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amrinder Singh and two others in the Amritsar land scandal.
With the political class ranged against them, the civic representatives of the panel drafting the Lokpal bill face an uphill battle. Sheela Bhatt reports from New Delhi.
Indian doctors won a landmark legal battle against the British government when the House of Lords ruled that the state "was wrong" in issuing guidelines discriminating against overseas graduates, mostly Indians,for employment in its health services.
At a hurriedly called press conference in New Delhi after learning that lawyer Prashant Bhushan had filed a criminal contempt petition against him in the Supreme court for releasing an audio tape maligning the image of Shanti Bhushan and his son Prashant, Amar Singh denied any role in release of the illegal tape.
Upholding the revision petition filed by the highly skilled migrants programme forum against retrospective changes effected to HSMP in November 2006, the high court in its judgement said: "The old scheme constituted an integrated and entire programme." It said that it was 'not open to the government to alter the terms and conditions upon which the pre-arranged stages were to be implemented.'
Why Dalit leaders cross over to the BJP
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