CAPITAL CULTURE: ‘West Wing Week’ videos: a not-quite-viral web stroll through Obama’s week Spanish cyclist Valverde gets global ban for doping after 4-year pursuit by cycling body
Spanish cyclist Valverde gets 2-year doping ban Scrap POSCO project, says Orissa’s fact-finding teamMUMBAI - A six-member fact finding team, headed by Justice (retd) Hosbert Suresh of the Bombay High Court, Monday demanded the immediate withdrawal of the proposed POSCO project in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district. Gujarat court upholds voting right of 10 farm societiesGANDHINAGAR - Representatives of Gujarat’s 10 agriculturist cooperative societies have cast their votes for a district agriculture produce markets committee (APMC) after the Gujarat High Court Monday upheld their right to do so. Rights group appeals for African detainees’ releaseNEW DELHI - Civil rights group, People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Monday appealed to the Indian government to release a dozen Africans held in detention centre in Delhi. The detainees have threatened to go on hunger strike from June 1. Congress alleges victimisation of Dalits in GujaratGANDHINAGAR - Gujarat Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil Monday charged Chief Minister Narendra Modi of victimising Dalits who oppose his policies against the interest of the socially marginalised people. Navy employee held for spying sent to judicial custodyNEW DELHI - An Indian Navy employee arrested by Delhi Police on espionage charges was Monday sent to 14-day judicial custody by a city court. China issues new rules banning evidence obtained through torture
China bans court evidence obtained by torture Court orders panel on Delhi’s mobile phone towersNEW DELHI - Keeping at abeyance the sealing of illegal mobile phone towers in the city, the Delhi High Court Monday ordered the central government and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to form a panel and file a report by Sep 15 on regulation of towers. Rathore’s bail hearing on TuesdayCHANDIGARH - The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday deferred the bail plea of former DGP SPS Rathore, sentenced to 18-month prison term in connection with the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, till Tuesday. Dialogue and rights violations can’t go together: MirwaizSRINAGAR - Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of the moderate Hurriyat group, said here Monday that “human rights violations and the dialogue process cannot go on together” in Jammu and Kashmir, referring to the killing of three civilians in an alleged staged shootout last month. Facebook back in Pak following Lahore High Court’s order of lifting banLAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Monday directed the concerned authorities to lift the ban imposed on popular networking site-Facebook, nearly two weeks after it was blocked following widespread protests against it for carrying blasphemous contents. Punjab and Haryana High Court to hear Rathore’s bail plea todayCHANDIGARH - The Punjab and Haryana High Court will take up the bail plea of former Haryana Director General of Police (DGP) SPS Rathore on Monday. Government honour roll sparks outrage in NepalKATHMANDU - Already under fire for having failed to write a new constitution in two years, Nepal’s government Monday came under fresh attack from human rights groups, the kin of “martyrs” who laid down their lives for democracy and even the chief justice over its controversial new roll of honours. China issues new rules banning evidence obtained through torture in death penalty cases
New rules ban illegal evidence in China courts Sam Pitroda’s new mission - mitigating hunger in IndiaNEW DELHI - Knowledge and telecommunication evangelist Sam Pitroda, currently advisor to the Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations, is on a new mission - to make India hunger-proof and food-reliant. |
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