The Supreme Court will Friday pronounce its verdict on the validity of the Justice G.R. Majithia Wage Board for Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees that has been challenged by several newspaper organisations including their joint body Indian Newspapers Society (INS). A bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Shiva Kirti […]
Pakistani people are now paying with their blood for their “past flawed policies on Kashmir” and in the “security establishment’s foolhardiness” in allowing non-state actors “ingress” into the valley and harming the cause of the “Kashmiri struggle”, a leading Pakistani daily stated Friday. “Even as Kashmir Day was observed Wednesday, few people realised the enormous […]
Manhattan’s Indian-American US Attorney Preet Bharara has struck again with the conviction of an Indian-American portfolio manager, giving him an enviable 79-0 record in his four-year long crackdown on insider-trading on Wall Street. A jury of seven women and five men Thursday found former SAC Capital Advisor portfolio manager Mathew Martoma, 39, guilty on one […]
Supreme Court Friday issued notice to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on a petition challenging a Delhi High Court order in a defamation case against him. The Supreme Court also stayed the operation of the high court order that had permitted Kejriwal to approach the lower court for his discharge in the defamation suit filed […]
The top US drug regulator is headed to India, which supplies an estimated 40 percent of the generic drugs sold in the US, to talk about quality issues after recent action against some Indian drug makers. The US Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, will travel to India Feb 10-18 […]
A total of 28 rounds of bidding were completed by the end of Day 4 Thursday of the second generation (2G) spectrum or airwaves auction that began Feb 3, an official statement said here. The government received cumulative bids worth Rs.52,689 crore at the end of the fourth day, Telecom Secretary M.F. Farooqui said. “The […]
The Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government Thursday asked its anti-corruption bureau to investigate the alleged irregularities in installing streetlights during the 2010 Commonwealth Games organised under then chief minister Sheila Dikshit. Acting swiftly, the anti-corruption bureau filed a fresh first information report (FIR) slapping cases under section 420 (cheating) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) against unknown […]
Sania Mirza and Prarthana Thombare won the decisive doubles to give India a 2-1 win over New Zealand in the Asia/Oceania Group D here Thursday. Thombare defeated Dianne Hollands 6-1, 6-4 in the first singles. New Zealand levelled the tie when Marina Erakovic beat Ankita Raina 6-1, 6-2. Thombare then teamed up with the experienced […]
Three parliamentarians from Andhra Pradesh Friday served no-confidence notices in the Lok Sabha against the Manmohan Singh government for its decision to carve out Telangana from the state. Harsha Kumar of the Congress, M. Venugopal Reddy of the Telugu Desam Party and M. Rajamohan Reddy of the YSR-Congress served separate notice to test government’s strength […]
Your obsolete car does not just stop at the scrap yard. It continues its journey till it enters your kitchen! Puzzled? The answer lies in recycling and Finnish people would tell you how there is no end to the road for your junked car, literally. In Finland, up to 95 percent of an obsolete car […]