Adani case: Gujarat High Court judge pulls up registrar

AHMEDABAD - A Gujarat High Court judge has pulled up the court registrar for placing before him a petition by “rich and powerful” businessman Rajesh Adani without completing the official procedure.

Mexico accuses 10 immigration agents, 3 airline workers of Chinese migrant trafficking

Trafficking probe nets 10 Mexican migration agents

Attorney says Michael Jackson’s children were never exposed to stun gun; investigation ongoing

Attorney: Jackson kids weren’t exposed to stun gun

US Supreme Court could declare individual right to own guns

WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court appeared to be leaning toward granting all Americans the right to own firearms, in the latest landmark case Tuesday involving gun rights in the country.

Court asks Delhi to shut polluting industries in villages

NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the state government to shut polluting industries that are operating in some villages on the Delhi-Haryana border within four weeks.

Security cover to family in caste row

BHIWANI - A security cover has been provided to the family of a boy, who eloped with a girl of the same gotra (sub-caste), as tension prevailed in Samaspur village of this district after an unbending khap panchayat (clan council) directed the family to leave the village by Wednesday evening.

Reduce noise near Delhi airport, orders court

NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to take “immediate measures” to check noise pollution near the airport that is affecting people at a hospital and a residential area nearby.

Police frame new guidelines to catch absconders

NEW DELHI - Special teams have been constituted in each district of the capital to nab those on the run while on bail and a reward will be given to the police personnel who apprehend such absconders, Delhi Police told the Delhi High Court Wednesday.

Court asks why phones not given to Tihar prisoners

NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Wednesday summoned the state home secretary for failing to provide telephone facilities to inmates in Tihar Jail despite earlier orders.

We never ordered an adversary killed: Fidel Castro

Havana, March 3 (IANS/EFE) Fidel Castro has confronted international and opposition criticism of the Cuban government following last week’s death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo after an 85-day hunger strike, saying “we have never ordered an adversary killed”.

We never ordered killing of an adversary: Fidel Castro

HAVANA - No one has ever been tortured in Cuba, said retired president Fidel Castro while confronting international and opposition criticism of the Cuban government following last week’s death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo after an 85-day hunger strike. He stressed: “We have never ordered the assassination of an adversary”.

Spain to maintain dialogue with Cuba on human rights

Baku (Azerbaijan), March 3 (IANS/EFE) Spain’s foreign minister said here that Madrid will maintain its “dialogue strategy” with Cuba as a way of achieving freedom for its political prisoners and respect for human rights in the Caribbean country.

Court asks civic agencies to free trees of concrete

NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed civic agencies to speed up the process of removing concrete from around trees in the national capital to enable their better growth and granted them three months to complete the work.

APNewsBreak: Wash. changes execution method from three-drug cocktail to one-drug injection

APNewsBreak: WA changes execution method

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state has changed its method of execution from a three-drug cocktail to a one-drug system, according to paperwork filed Tuesday with the state Supreme Court.

Smithsonian turns down donation of suit worn by OJ Simpson during 1995 acquittal announcement

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AP Interview: Arenas shrugs off nerves as sentencing nears, ‘no problem’ returning to Wizards

AP Interview: Arenas shrugs off sentencing nerves

Lil Wayne sentencing in gun case postponed due to NYC courthouse fire

Lil Wayne sentencing postponed due to court fire

Two new Jammu and Kashmir High Court judges appointed

NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday appointed two Additional judges of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court as judges of the J-K High Court.

Spain says Venezuela to help with probe of links with Basque separatists, Colombian rebels

Spain says Venezuela to cooperate with probe

Centre playing truant over high court bench: Kerala minister

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The central government is playing truant over setting up a high court bench in the state’s capital city, Kerala Law Minister M. Vijayakumar told the assembly Tuesday.

Yorkshire Ripper urges court to set him free

LONDON - British serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, who was convicted of murdering 13 women and attacking seven others in Yorkshire and Lancashire in late 1980, is reportedly seeking a High Court ruling which could see him freed.

Auckland jury retires from Indian-origin liquor store owner’s trial

AUCKLAND - An Auckland High Court jury has ended the second day’s deliberations in Indian-origin south Auckland liquor store owner Navtej Singh’s June 2008 murder without a verdict.