An American teenager has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after he allegedly tried to travel to Turkey to join the Islamic State terror group, officials said.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
The mainstream American media has hailed the brief Lahore stopover of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to meet his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, reporting it as a significant development in the relationship between the two South Asian neighbours.
PE funds say they have enough money to buy two or three of the indebted companies and the issue is not cash but the management bandwidth to turn them around.
Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad Gautam Bambawale on Wednesday met with Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua and sought the consular access to Jadhav.
What will the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government do to answer the queries and fears of investors who will want to be doubly sure they would not be harassed at a later date, as has been happening to Sterlite, should be interesting to watch, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'What is happening is worse than Talibanisation.' 'There is no way a film-maker can fight these fringe groups, these extra-constitutional authorities.'
After rows over water usage at its plants in Kerala and Uttar Pradesh, it is now the turn of its Gujarat factory.
Former New Zealand batsman Lou Vincent has pleaded guilty to not reporting an approach by a bookmaker while playing in the Bangladesh Premier League last year.
Another reason working in Air India's favour now is the government's plan to clean up part of the airline's burgeoning debt from its books - a major deterrent for investors when it attempted divestment the previous time.
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said the "historic day will remain etched in their memories forever".
In its plea, Karnataka had said its reservoirs are dry and it can only release water to Tamil Nadu by the end of the year.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
The India-Japan joint naval exercises are a strategic signal for China, observes Dr Rajaram Panda.
Those involved in the discussions say the guidelines for selection of bidders in insolvency cases need to be transparent, otherwise anyone who loses out could take legal recourse, leading to wastage of time and derailing the whole process.
The Tamil Nadu government welcomed the decision, hailing it as a 'grand victory for the 'Amma (Jayalalithaa) government' and the state's farmers'.
The cascade of cordiality on both sides after the Modi-Sharif handshake in Paris was preceded by much planning and even goading from UK, US and Germany.
This is the second incident in six months of an untoward incident involving IndiGo staff.
The actor also said that the Centre will face TN wrath if it fails to set up CMB.
'The right conferred by Article 32 has been considered as a part of the 'basic structure of the Constitution', and thus cannot be taken away by anybody, not even by amending the Constitution.'
Besides Nair, others named in the charge sheet include the then K R Sridhar Murthy, Ramachandra Vishwanathan and M G Chandrasekhar.
The justice delivery system is struggling to cope, creaking at the joints and bursting at the seams. Indian courts have to deal with about 30 million cases with a judicial strength of just about 19,000 judges.
The bench, which wanted the Civil Aviation Ministry to think over the various issues plaguing the national carrier, also said other area of concern was the priority given to private airlines with Air India aircraft being asked to hover around during the peak landing hours causing huge loss of money on fuel.
"The cricket board has been apprised of our sentiments," Fisheries minister D Jayakumar said.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Kailash Avhad told Rediff.com that when he appeared before DCP Sandeep Palve, the police officer expressed anger at his RTI applications, caught him by the collar, banged his head against the wall and rained blows behind his ear. He then forced Avhad to touch his feet in apology.
After the defence ministry termed as "illegal" his decision to put a ban on promotion of Army Chief designate Dalbir Suhag, Gen (retd)V K Singh, now a Union minister, justified his action on Tuesday.
'We've no objections to women wearing lipstick under a burqa. But the film shows these women doing unmentionable things,'
The Opposition on Monday charged the government with trying to promote crony capitalism, creating fear by giving "unbridled power" to taxmen, trying to snoop into people's lives through increased use of Aadhaar through the provisions of the Finance Bill.
In 2009, ArcelorMittal had picked up a stake in Uttam Galva Steels. A new Section 29A of the IBC prohibits promoters of companies with NPAs of more than a year from bidding for these companies.
The apex court set aside the order of the Kerala high court which had upheld the Central Administrative Tribunal's decision that had not found fault with the state government's decision to transfer Senkumar from the post of the state police chief.
The case is likely to come up for hearing on Monday.
The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) has hit back at allegations of poor administration and a lack of controls by a former official, insisting the authority's practices meet global standards.
Verifiable 'distress-sharing' of available water may still be the way out of the Cauvery water row, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Banks to be permitted to raise long-term funds for lending to infrastructure sector with minimum regulatory pre-emption such as CRR, SLR and Priority Sector Lending.
The razor maker suffered a major jolt after the Securities Appellate Tribunal had quashed an appeal it filed against the regulator, which had earlier rejected Gillette's plan entailing reclassification of promoter holdings to comply with the public shareholding norms.
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'If you ask India's finest business leaders, they now tell you -- in whispers, of course -- that the mood has never been so glum after 1991,' says Shekhar Gupta.
In the crazily complex cauldron that is India, where caste, community, class and cash are just the primary ingredients, no one has yet come up with a fool-proof method to ascertain how voters make up their minds, on which button to press, in the privacy of their 'confessional' booths, notes Krishna Prasad.
