When the state errs, let it compensateA Kerala man was acquitted by the Supreme Court after wrongly serving jail time in a double murder case. India currently lacks a law for co...
17 Jul, 2025, 11.28 PM IST
Secret Service head to testify to US congressional panel on Donald Trump shootingSecret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle will testify before the U.S. House Oversight Committee on July 22 regarding the shooting of former...
18 Jul, 2024, 10.06 AM IST
Samir Modi accuses Godfrey Board of assault complicityA court in New Delhi has directed the personal appearance of a Delhi Police investigating officer regarding the preservation of CCTV footag...
24 Jun, 2024, 12.16 AM IST
Qantas to pay $66 million fine after 'ghost flights' scandalQantas agreed to pay a $66 million fine and $13 million in compensation after a scandal involving "ghost flights," where seats were sold on...
06 May, 2024, 06.35 AM IST
US, Microsoft reach settlement over tech firm's sanctions violationsMicrosoft has agreed to remit about $3 million to settle its potential civil liability for more than 1,300 apparent sanctions violations in...
07 Apr, 2023, 08.45 AM IST
Elon Musk adds whistleblower as new reason to cancel $44 billion Twitter dealLawyers for both Elon Musk and Twitter have subpoenaed Zatko, who also said the social-media platform’s officials didn’t know or care to fi...
30 Aug, 2022, 04.48 PM IST
China, U.S. trade tit-for-tat visa curbs over TibetThe moves come as relations between the United States deteriorate over trade, technology, the coronavirus pandemic and the former British c...
08 Jul, 2020, 03.32 PM IST
Britain checks whether financial firms are near collapse in pandemicThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will send the questionnaire to firms like financial advisers and wealth funds, its executive director...
04 Jun, 2020, 05.43 PM IST
US lawmakers for listing Pakistan as country of particular concern over religious freedomDesignating Pakistan as a CPC is not just a moral imperative, it is a legally-mandated one under International Religious Freedom Act, and i...
15 Nov, 2017, 10.45 AM IST
US panel wants Pakistan on list for religious freedom violationsAs such USCIRF again recommended the State Department to designated Pakistan a "country of particular concern", or CPC, under IRFA.
03 May, 2016, 02.08 PM IST
Pakistan worst country in religious freedom: US bodyCPC designation is given to countries or those governments that "engage in or tolerate" systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of re...
22 Oct, 2015, 08.56 PM IST
Pakistan should be designated among 'countries of particular concern': USCIRFPakistan should be designated among 'countries of particular concern' (CPC) for its "egregious violations" of religious freedom, an indepen...
22 Oct, 2015, 04.44 PM IST
US industry wants India designated Priority Foreign CountryAn influential section of American businesses, on Monday urged the Obama Administration to designate India as a Priority Foreign Country.
25 Feb, 2014, 01.12 PM IST
Rajat Gupta should pay $15 mn penalty: SECUS govt has asked a court here to slap a maximum penalty of $15 mn on Rajat Gupta and permanently bar him from serving as director of any p...
16 Nov, 2012, 04.53 PM IST
- Baba's strike and a craven show of UPA
Politically, with the Congress and the BJP fighting hard to be seen as more earnest on the issue, it also signals a failure on the UPA’s pa...
03 Jun, 2011, 08.22 AM IST
- Disquiet over Modi in Anna Hazare's camp
For all his damage-control efforts, Anna Hazare's praise for Narendra Modi has emerged as a touchstone, however unwittingly, for determinin...
13 Apr, 2011, 09.41 AM IST
- Wrong, your honour; not just grain at stake
The Supreme Court has erred by directing the government to distribute rotting food grains to the poor for free.
01 Sep, 2010, 06.01 AM IST