The satellite radio bigwigs remain optimistic despite Capitol Hill, FCC, and NAB objections, not to mention swooning stock prices.

"At best, untouchability involves social segregation, including separate educational facilities, drinking water, and restaurants."

A consistent use of RTI will bring about a positive change.

Making a case for revising the H1B visas upwards, the US Commerce Secretary has said high-tech businesses are facing shortages in filling up positions

The MPs passed the bill through a voice vote.

Initiating a discussion on the situation arising out of the ongoing sealing drive, Rajiv Ranjan Singh (Janata Dal-United) said the government had failed to finalise a master plan for the capital.

The US Senate has approved a landmark immigration reform bill that would give citizenship to millions of illegal persons and double the number of H1-B visas from the present 65,000

Frist hoped that the bill would clear the full Senate this week, or before Congress heads for a two-week Easter recess.

After a promising start in the Senate, a plan to nearly double the quota for H-1B visas for foreign workers has run into trouble in the United States Congress.

Patriot Act is an antiterrorism law introduced in 2001.

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The decision could put Parliament and the Judiciary on a collision course.

A political floor fight is expected over the budget package that has provisions to make available thousands of green cards for new permanent immigrants.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted in favour of raising the H1B visa limit from 65,000 to 95,000.

'If a person is tortured in custody the flag of civilisation must fly at half mast,' says National Human Rights \nCommission Chairman Justice A S Anand.

The text of President A P J Abdul Kalam's address to the joint sitting of Parliament.

Law Minister Hans Raj Bharadwaj has taken seriously expressed by a former Chief Justice of India that he had no power to discipline erring judges.

'In respect of removal from office through impeachment, a Supreme Court judge is not only at par with the President of India but even higher,' says Arvind Lavakare.