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...
11 Feb, 2025, 12.02 AM IST
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...
09 Nov, 2023, 11.11 PM IST
Shehbaz Sharif asks Nawaz to return Pakistan, become PM for fourth timeWhile addressing the central general council meeting of the party, PML-N, Sharif said that he was waiting for his elder brother to return t...
17 Jun, 2023, 06.54 AM IST
Donald Trump lets former aides immediately begin lobbyingThe earlier restrictions, aimed at fulfilling a campaign promise to "drain the swamp," had targeted the kind of insider culture the Republi...
20 Jan, 2021, 09.33 PM IST
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...
04 Dec, 2020, 07.51 AM IST
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...
10 Sep, 2020, 11.10 PM IST
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...
02 Nov, 2018, 11.38 AM IST
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...
22 Aug, 2018, 07.41 AM IST
Pakistan's top court, election panel deal fresh blows to Nawaz Sharif's partySince his removal, Sharif has argued that the Pakistani military establishment, aided by top members of the judiciary, had orchestrated the...
28 Jun, 2018, 03.40 PM IST
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- Ethiopia to impose lifetime bans on drug cheats
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30 Dec, 2016, 10.53 PM IST
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...
15 Sep, 2016, 06.38 AM IST
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...
24 Nov, 2015, 06.04 AM IST
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...
23 Nov, 2015, 06.22 PM IST
Pakistan court bans broadcast of Altaf Hussain's speeches, imagesPakistan today banned the broadcast of speeches and images of Altaf Hussain on a petition which alleged the self-exiled MQM chief had commi...
07 Sep, 2015, 10.05 PM IST
UN chooses Danish politician to head General AssemblyLykketoft will preside over the 193-member UN body's upcoming 70th session and succeeds Uganda's Sam Kutesa.
16 Jun, 2015, 11.38 AM IST
- Pakistan Court bans Musharraf from contesting polls for life
A provincial High Court today banned former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf from contesting elections for the rest of his life .
30 Apr, 2013, 06.46 PM IST