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US imposes travel ban on former Argentine president over corruption chargesFormer Argentine President Cristina Fernandez and her planning minister, Julio Miguel De Vido, have been banned from entering the United St...
Centre opposes PIL seeking life ban on convicted politiciansThe Centre has opposed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking a lifetime ban on convicted politicians, stating that such a disqualification fa...
PIL demands lifetime ban on convicts from polls; Supreme Court seeks ECI, Centre viewsThe Supreme Court has requested responses from the Centre and Election Commission of India regarding a PIL challenging the election of conv...
Nawaz Sharif to become Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President again, says party leaderPakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Punjab chapter President, Rana Sanaullah said on Friday that Nawaz Sharif would retake the party's Pre...
SC tells High Courts to monitor serious cases against legislatorsThe Supreme Court has instructed high courts to oversee criminal cases involving members of Parliament and legislative assemblies and counc...
Events leading to the exile and return of Pakistan's Nawaz SharifFormer Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is set to return to Pakistan after four years of self-imposed exile in London. Sharif, who has...
Rishi Sunak bans American bully XL dogs: What will happen to your pet after this decision?Chancellor Rishi Sunak's decision to ban American bully XL dogs in the UK has raised concerns among pet owners. What will happen to your do...
Centre opposes life ban for tainted politicians to contest electionsThe law department was responding to court notices on a PIL filed by BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay seeking a lifetime banr on tainted p...
AG refuses to reconsider decision declining consent to initiate contempt against CM ReddyThe topmost law officer, in his reply to Upadhyay's letter seeking reconsideration of the decision, reiterated his stand saying that the is...
SC seeks Centre’s stand on PIL for lifetime ban on convicted persons contesting pollsA bench led by Justice NV Ramana, who will be the next Chief Justice of India when SA Bobde demits office, issued the notices. The Centre w...
Supreme Court focus on life ban for criminal politiciansOn Thursday, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Uday U Lalit and K M Joseph took the PIL petitioner by surprise by asking w...
Supreme Court may ask parties, nominees to publicise criminal recordsThe EC contended that these revelations were not effective as they remained confined to the EC official website.
Centre opposes SC suggestion to bar tainted politicians from pollsThe court conceded that it had no power to ask Parliament to make a law, but said it could well issue an order to the Election Commission t...
Centre to set up 12 special courts to exclusively deal with cases against 1,581 tainted lawmakersTotal of 10 special courts will be set up in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telengana, ...
Lifetime ban on convicted netas: Supreme Court seeks Center, Election Commission's viewsThe petition said that 34 per cent of MPs have criminal cases pending against them but the executive was doing nothing to deal with the pro...
Why must convicts not be debarred from contesting elections for life: SC to CentreThe court was acting on a PIL filed by Delhi BJP spokesperson who had sought urgent court intervention to ‘check criminalisation and commun...
Supreme Court agrees to hear plea for electoral reformsA bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy said that as similar petition is pending, the PIL be put for hearing alo...
Punjab to move Madhya Pradesh HC for ban on poppy cultivation and opium saleBadal claimed that While heroin comes from Pakistan, opium comes from Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
- UK phone-hacking scandal: New facts embarrass James Murdoch, David Cameron
Phone-hacking was "widely discussed" in editorial meetings of the now defunct NOTW tabloid, the reporter who was blamed as the lone culprit...
- Indian student jailed for 42 months in street racing case
A 23-year-old Indian student has been sentenced to 42 months in jail for his role in a street racing accident here two years ago that left ...