The United States federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Friday dropped terrorism charges against slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden who was killed by American commandos in Pakistan.
Since March 3, when terrorists attacked the Pakistan district courts, in which 12 people, including an additional district and sessions judge, were killed in Islamabad, there has been no progress on the trial
Karan Bhushan rejects the charges against his father, saying the "allegations are political and made up. We will challenge them in court".
In more than a decade since 2002, 60 fugitives were extradited or deported by foreign governments to India, which received a major victory in its fight to bring the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks to justice when a US federal court agreed to the extradition of Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana to the country.
On the charge of illegally owning a firearm as a drug user, he is yet to reach an agreement.
The party also named Dinesh Pratap Singh as its candidate from Rae Bareli, a Gandhi family bastion which was won by former Congress president Sonia Gandhi five consecutive times.
The United State senate has confirmed Indian-American Vince Girdhari Chhabria as the federal judge of the US district court for the northern district of California.
The Supreme Court is currently not in session, but can take emergency cases.
The United States Senate took the historic decision by 53-47 votes after three Republican Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney voted in her favour along with 50 members of the ruling Democratic Party.
Showing lenience and also appreciation for his humanitarian work, Judge Jed S Rakoff of the Federal District Court in Manhattan handed a two-year prison term to Rajat Gupta, former head of McKinsey and Co and also a former director of Goldman Sachs and Proctor and Gamble for leaking insider information.
A 19-year-old Indian-origin teen accused of deliberately crashing a rented U-Haul truck into a White House barrier told authorities that he wanted to get inside the mansion to "seize power" and "kill" US President Joe Biden, according to media reports.
A special CBI court in Godhra on Saturday granted the probe agency four-day custody of Jay Jalaram School's principal Purushottam Sharma, teacher Tushar Bhatt, and middlemen Vibhor Anand and Arif Vohra, all of whom are alleged to be involved in irregularities in the May 5 NEET-UG exam in Godhra.
An American, who received training at Al Qaeda camps in Pakistan, was on Wednesday convicted on multiple terrorism charges including plotting with two of his friends to carry out suicide attacks in the New York subways in one of the most serious terrorist plots since 9/11.
You don't prep for 2028 but for 2040, or even 2044. Sustained sporting excellence is based on mass support, grassroots development, and funding - and it is this trifecta India needs to work on, systematically, asserts Prem Panicker.
The US government has removed a regulation proposed by former president Donald Trump's administration that sought to narrow the definition of "specialty occupation" under the H-1B visa regime. The change comes as a relief for Indian information technology firms, which are among the largest users of such visas. "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has formally vacated a regulation that would have redefined the H-1B specialty occupation, restricted off site placement of H-1B employees, and otherwise increased employer compliance obligations. "The vacatur follows a federal court ruling that set aside the regulation because the agency did not have good cause to bypass notice and comment rulemaking, in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act," explained immigration law firm Fragomen.
Trump will make his first court appearance in the case on Thursday in federal court in Washington, DC, as per the court filings.
The Indian government has asked a federal court in Washington to dismiss Britain's Cairn Energy suit seeking enforcement of a $1.2 billion arbitral award, saying it had sovereign immunity under US law. Cairn had in May asked a US federal court to force Air India to pay a $1.26 billion arbitration award the firm had won in December. The government on August 13 filed a 'Motion to Dismiss' petition in the US District Court for the District of Colombia, saying it lacked subject matter jurisdiction in the dispute between Cairn and the Indian tax authority, according to a filing seen by PTI.
The United States Court of Appeals for the eastern district of Wisconsin dismissed a human rights violation case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal last week.
Assistant United States attorney, Jeffery H Knox, speaking in Federal District Court in Brooklyn on Friday, revealed that two senior Al-Qaeda leaders were instrumental in developing this plan.
Amit Mathur, a resident of Shrewsbury in Massachusetts, was sentenced on May 12 by the Federal District Court in Worcester following his conviction on 18 counts of mail fraud and two counts of wire fraud, the Boston Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.
Infosys on Friday said a class action lawsuit filed against the company and some of its employees in the US district court has been dismissed. The move comes after whistleblower complaints alleging certain unethical practices by the top management emerged in October last year.
Ten alleged members of a Russian spy ring are expected to plead guilty in US court which could facilitate a larger prisoner swap between Washington and Moscow, reports said on Friday.
As the petition points out, new medical colleges entail adjunct government hospitals, thus making specialised medical care that much more accessible to the vast majority of population that otherwise could not afford high-cost medical care in the private sector, N Sathiya Moorthy points out.
An accomplice of Al Qaeda associate Najibullah Zazi has pleaded guilty to a plot that involved bombing New York City subways and also admitted to a conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.
The announcement comes as a big relief to international students, including those from India.
In the lawsuit filed in federal district court in Manhattan, five of the protesters said police officers had led people onto the bridge's roadway and then prevented them from leaving the bridge on Saturday.
'We have been threatened. We have felt violated.' 'Everything is in danger if you don't give safe spaces to women.'
Al Qaeda's slain leader Osama bin Laden had planned to follow up the September 11 attacks with shoe bombers to blow up American passenger planes, which would have brought the American economy to its knees, a British man convicted on terrorism charges testified in a trial in New York.
Thapar currently holds the position of US District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
A land-owning class, the Jats are a powerful community and account for 28 per cent of Haryana's population. The time, they believe, has now come for them to take revenge.
A United States federal appeals court in New York has reserved the decision in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
Country's biggest drug maker, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd on Wednesday said a US Appeals Court has ruled in its favour in the patent infringement case with Pfizer for cholesterol-lowering drug Atorvastatin (Lipitor).
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked various state governments to apprise it in six weeks on the action taken in incidents of mob lynching and cow vigilantism.
As a sitting head of government Narendra Modi enjoy immunity from suits in American courts and also enjoy personal inviolability.
The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has attached over a dozen properties worth Rs 12.78 crore of suspended Trinamool Congress leader Shajahan Sheikh including bank deposits, an apartment, and agricultural and fishery land in Sandeshkhali and Kolkata in West Bengal.
The Yoga Federation of India contended that the recognition granted to the National Yogasana Sports Federation is arbitrary and suffers from malafide intentions.
Purchase of three plots of land in Haryana in 2005-06 by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra from a real estate agent is being probed along with a land deal made by his wife Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) claimed in a recently filed money laundering case charge sheet.
For the first time in the past 11 months the United States District Court of Northern California favoured former students of the Tri-Valley University.
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