US starts receiving applications for H1B visas
The US has started accepting petition for the much sought H-1B work visas, amidst fear from industry experts and officials that the Congressional mandated quota of 65,000 might get filled up in the first week itself. Officials said the Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) would not issue daily update on number of applications received, but […]
Delhi gang-rape: Witness denies coffin didn’t contain girl’s body
An Air India official today denied before a special court here the claim of December 16 gangrape accused that the coffin in which the body of the victim was flown back to India did not contain “human remains” and was loaded with “other things”. “It is wrong to suggest that instead of human remains some […]
Katju to take up cases of those unjustly languishing in jails
Press Council of India (PCI) chairperson Justice (retd) Markandey Katju has teamed up with eminent citizens and launched an organisation to fight for those who are unjustly languishing in jails. In a statement released here, the former Supreme Court judge said many such persons in jail belong to minorities who have been accused only on […]
‘Vijender’s car planted where drugs found’
The drug scandal surrounding Vijender Singh on Tuesday took a new twist with one of his fellow pugilists Dinesh Kumar disputing the claims of Punjab Police even as the sports ministry explored ways to subject the star boxer to a heroin test despite NADA’s refusal to do so. Almost a month after the scandal broke […]
Musharraf Greeted in Pakistan by Threats and Small Crowds
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s onetime military ruler, Gen.Pervez Musharraf, ended four years of self-imposed exile on Sunday in hopes of carving out a political future, but he received an unremarkable welcome as he landed at the airport in Karachi. General Musharraf, who resigned as president in August 2008 under threat of impeachment and left the country the following April, […]
Bill on Crime Against Women Passes in India
NEW DELHI — India’s Parliament passed a comprehensive bill on Thursday to impose stronger penalties on men who attack women and to criminalize offenses like stalking and voyeurism. The bill passed quickly in the upper house of Parliament on Thursday; the debate in the lower house on Tuesday was longer, lasting seven hours. President Pranab Mukherjee […]
Governors Over the Years: From Stalwarts to “Courtiers”
Those were the good old days when the governors were men and women of letters and of unimpeachable integrity. Women like Sarojini Naidu, Vijayalakshmi Pandit and Padmaja Naidu performed their gubernatorial duties with much dignity. And great men like KM Munshi, Sir HP Mody, VV Giri, Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai, Dharam Vira and Govind Narain […]
