Pakistan has decided to approach the International Court of Arbitration to halt the construction of the Kishanganga hydropower project by India, on the ground that it violates the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, and has formed a team of legal experts to fight the case.Professor Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad, an international legal expert of Pakistani origin, will lead the team at the International Court of Arbitration.
Dhankhar, who took to cricket in his school days and also had keen interest in spirituality and meditation, began his political journey with the Janata Dal and won the Lok Sabha elections in 1989.
Vodafone further said it has "always been confident" that no tax is due on the company. The government in August enacted a law to end all retrospective taxation imposed on indirect transfer of Indian assets. The rules under the law seek to withdraw tax demands made using a 2012 retrospective legislation to tax the indirect transfer of Indian assets and also refund the amount paid in these cases without any interest. Asked if the company has filed an application with the Indian government to settle the retrospective tax dispute, a Vodafone spokesperson said, "We can confirm we have filed an application".
Former West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was on Thursday sworn in as the 14th Vice President of India.
Kamal Majidulla, special assistant to the prime minister on water issues, claimed that the neutral expert's verdict of 2007 on the Baglihar project was a "travesty of justice" and an "inversion of the Indus Waters Treaty" that allocated three Western rivers to Pakistan.
In a significant development in an India-Pakistan dispute, the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague on Tuesday upheld India's right to divert water from the Kishanganga hydroelectric project in Kashmir.
ICA is the world's leading institution for resolving international commercial and business disputes.
Pakistan's disgraced former captain Salman Butt left for Switzerland on Tuesday along with ex-teammate Mohammad Asif to attend the international Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) appeal hearing against the spot-fixing ban on the duo.
The man who represented Pakistan at the International Court of Arbitration to explain the country's case on the Kishanganga Dam is believed to have played into India's hands and wrongly projected Islamabad's loss as its gain.
India and Pakistan failed to reach consensus on the names of three neutral umpires for the International Court of Arbitration, which will decide on resolution of dispute over Kishenganga power project to be constructed in Jammu and Kashmir, on Friday.
Reliance Communications-owned FLAG system has won a case against Tatas-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited in the International Court of Arbitration, which makes it eligible for upgrading capacity of international bandwidth.
Five countries have complained to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport about badminton's new scoring system, arguing it discriminates against women
A senior company executive said the company waited for seven years for the verdict and its shareholders needed to know when it would be concluded.
HPL management's control will go to the promoter who gets access to the 155 million shares block.
West Bengal government, through its arm West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation, had decided to offload its shares (which included the controversial 155 million shares) following which IOC emerged as the sole valid bidder.
The talks will be the first official engagement between India and Pakistan since Khan became prime minister on August 18.
Only 300 assessees came forward with disputed tax liabilities amounting to Rs 10,000 crore
The International Chamber of Commerce's arbitration body International Court of Arbitration has ruled in our favour in the Antrix-Devas arbitration case and Antrix is liable to pay damages totalling $672 million to it, Devas said on Tuesday.
An international tribunal has ruled that the Indian government had acted "unfairly" and "inequitably" in annulling a contract between Devas and ISRO's commercial arm Antrix.
'There seem to be no reason why Assad should have launched such an attack when he was gaining acceptability,' says Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
While it was no secret that Mamata was upset with Patha Chatterjee for a while as he has hardly been successful in bringing any big-ticket investment, there is a strong buzz that it was the controversy over the HPL bid that finally influenced her decision.
China has taken a position of non-acceptance and non-participation on the jurisdiction by the International Court of Arbitration in a case the Philippines has brought against China's claims to nearly all of the South China Sea, Abraham Denmark, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for East Asia, told lawmakers at a Congressional hearing.
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