A love story has a happy ending - thanks to Internet

LONDON - A Canadian Muslim girl was allowed to marry her Dubai-based Indian lover after she wrote an online appeal for help while being in her father’s “captivity” in Saudi Arabia for three years, according to a report here.

Hooters hit with lawsuit by ex-employee who says she was told to hit gym, lose weight

Ex-Hooters employee: I was told to drop weight

Apex court stays Madras High Court order on bar poll

NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Monday stayed the Madras High Court’s directions related to elections to the high court’s Advocate Association (MHAA) and wondered how could there be discrimination in allowing lawyers exercise their right to vote.

Zardari graft case: Law minister to appear before Supreme Court Tuesday

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s law minister is to appear before the Supreme Court to explain why he has not carried out its directive to reopen a $60 million Swiss money laundering case against President Asif Ali Zardari.

Plea seeking restraint on airfield modernisation dismissed

NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a petition seeking to restrain the central government from awarding a contract for the modernisation of 30 airfields of the Indian Air Force to a consortium of companies led by Tata Power’s Strategic Electronic Division (Tata Power SED).

Dipak Misra sworn in Delhi High Court Chief Justice

New Delhi, May 24 (ANI): Justice Dipak Misra was on Monday sworn in as the new Chief Justice of Delhi High Court.

MCD unwilling to reduce hike in mobile towers licence fee

NEW DELHI - The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Monday told the Delhi High Court that it is not ready to lower the hiked licence fee on the mobile towers in the capital.

Samajwadi Party to offer legal help to poor

LUCKNOW - The Samajwadi Party (SP) said Monday that its lawyers and experts will provide free-of-cost legal assistance to the poor people of Uttar Pradesh.

Justice Dipak Misra takes over as Delhi High Court chief justice

NEW DELHI - Adopting a humanitarian approach, Delhi High Court’s new Chief Justice Dipak Misra disposed 13 cases on his first day in office Monday.

Gilani trying to avoid judiciary-executive face-off over NRO judgement implementation

Lahore, May 24 (ANI): In a bid to avoid any showdown between the executive and the higher judiciary during next week’s hearing over the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, using his veto power, has barred federal ministers from opposing the Supreme Court’s verdict.

In Kashmir, Sonia will battle the flames in Congress

JAMMU - In a state where the Islamist insurgency shows no signs of ending, Congress president Sonia Gandhi will have a more pressing task on hand when she visits Jammu and Kashmir Saturday: ending the intensifying feuds within her party.

Brisbane court told ‘Dr. Death’s’ surgeries ‘more dangerous than a transplant’

Brisbane (Australia), May 24 (ANI): The oesophagectomy operations performed by controversial Indian origin surgeon Dr. Jayant Patel a.k.a. “Dr. Death on two Bundaberg Base Hospital patients who later died were more dangerous than a heart or liver transplant, the Brisbane Supreme Court was told on Monday.

Zero tolerance against human rights violations: PM

NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said his government was following “zero tolerance” policy against human rights violations.

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