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British Indian MP threatens legal action over media report

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Indian-origin British MP Priti Patel has threatened to take legal action against a weekly newspaper article and Twitter comments that accused her of colluding with tobacco companies. Britain’s Observer weekly Sunday published an article that accused Priti Patel of being an ex-tobacco lobbyist and said her stance on opposing plain packaging on cigarettes was motivated […]

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Arrested FBI agent doesn’t enjoy diplomatic immunity: Pakistan

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The Pakistan foreign ministry Thursday said an employee of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested this week for carrying ammunition does not enjoy diplomatic immunity. Joel Cox was arrested Monday in the southern port city of Karachi while attempting to board a domestic flight to the capital Islamabad, after the Airport Security Force […]

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Indian-American executive charged with fraud in US

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An Indian-American executive at an investment advisory firm in New York has been charged with fraud by the US regulator for distributing falsified performance results and siphoning investor proceeds for his luxury car payments. The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Aphelion Fund Management’s chief investment officer Vineet Kalucha fraudulently altered an outside audit firm’s […]

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CBI clean chit to Amit Shah in Ishrat Jahan encounter case

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In a big development which is likely to give a major boost to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s bid for prime minister’s post, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday gave a clean chit to his close aide Amit Shah in connection with the 2004 fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and others. According to […]

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HC to hear plea against engg entrance exam on May 9

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The Delhi High Court today agreed to hear a PIL seeking to restrain the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) from conducting engineering entrance examinations on the basis of JEE (Main), and JEE (Advanced), 2014. A bench of justices B D Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul has fixed the PIL […]

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Punjab top cop ordered to face trial in murder case

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Punjab Director General of Police(DGP) S K Sharma and three other police officers have been ordered to face trial for alleged kidnapping and murder of a youth in 1990. Additional District and Sessions Judge K S Sullar ordered framing of charges against Sharma, DIG S P S Basra, Balkar Singh, the then SHO of Morinda […]

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No bail for superintendent of Arthur Road jail

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The sessions court today rejected the bail application of the suspended chief of Mumbai Central Prison (also known as Arthur Road jail) Vasudev Burkule, arrested for demanding a bribe from a jail officer to pass him in an examination. This is the second time the court has refused bail to Burkule. He had been denied […]

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SC lifts stay on nursery admissions in Delhi

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a go ahead for nursery admissions in Delhi and said parents who moved court against the Delhi government’s decision to scrap the inter-state transfer will get seats in schools for their children for this academic year, according to reports. The apex court also quashed the February 27 notification issued […]

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Sri Lankan appears in UAE court for Indian’s death

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A Sri Lankan safety instructor whose alleged misconduct resulted in the death of an Indian worker appeared before a Dubai court, media reported Tuesday. Reji Thomas, 47, suffered severe burn injuries in a massive explosion after a drop of paint fell from the roof of an unventilated chemical substances tank onto a halogen light bulb […]

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Indian doctors face higher lay-off threat in Britain

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Medical practitioners trained in India and working in Britain are four times more likely to be laid off than the ones trained locally, statistics reveal. Figures released by the General Medical Council (GMC) show that between 2008 and 2013, about one in 1,000 British-trained doctors were struck off, compared to one in 250 of those […]

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Bhagat Singh case worth reinvestigating: Pakistani daily

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The 1928 case against Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh is worth reinvestigating as it will enrich historical accounts with factual detail, a leading Pakistani daily said on Tuesday. “The trials and mistrials of the freedom fighters are the latter’s medals, a proof of their gallantry and of the oppressive colonial treatment they were subjected to. […]

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Indian arrested in Nepal for copying movies

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Nepal Police have arrested an Indian national on the charge of violating domestic copyright act for selling Indian, Nepali and English movies protected under the act. Dipak Kumar Gupta from Sitamarhi, India, who rented a flat in Kathmandu to sell protected Indian, Nepali and English movies in violation of the copyright act, was held by […]

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