'My belief that I could protect the Himalayas was shattered.'
Ajit Balakrishnan on learning from past technology revolutions.
Today, a friendship forged by common ideals behind prison walls has become a transactional understanding, notes Aditi Phadnis.
'From environmental impact assessment to forest clearances, this has turned out to be an unscientific road-widening project with catastrophic consequences.'
Bihar government on Monday dissolved a committee constituted by Bihar School Examination Board to probe into alleged irregularities in evaluation of marks in this year's 10+2 examination.
Singh had gone underground after resigning from the board two weeks ago ever since his name figured in the Class 12 toppers' scam.
Technology major Apple Inc has been fined $165,908 by a court in Beijing for allegedly selling unlicensed electronic versions of books online.
A Chinese court has sentenced to death a terrorist involved in a major terrorist attack that killed 15 people and left 14 others injured in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
'Dharavi will be completely slum free by 2040'
The caste census has already become a hot-button issue. Unless settled earlier, it will echo loudly in the coming assembly elections and eventually in the 2024 parliamentary poll, notes Virendra Kapoor.
A Chinese court on Monday sentenced Wang Lijun, the top police official whose defection to United States consulate has sparked off country's biggest political scandal, to 15 years in prison.
'In low-profile cases, if there's a small quantity (of drugs involved), you get bail on the first day.' 'In high-profile cases, it depends on the judge.'
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R S Reddy and M R Shah said if any State/Union Territory in exercise of their jurisdiction under the Disaster Management Act (DMA) has taken a decision that it is not possible to conduct the final year/terminal semester examination by September 30, then they can make an application to the UGC for extending the deadline.
The wife of disgraced leader Bo Xilai was on Monday handed a suspended death sentence by a Chinese court for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.
'I was living in a fools' paradise, thinking I could win over anyone with my good intentions.'
A former chief of Beijing's local taxation bureau was sentenced to death, with a two-year reprieve, for accepting bribes and embezzling up to 10 million yuan, as part of a crackdown on officials facing corruption charges.
British car maker won its law suite against Chinese automaker Geely over using trade mark name "luhu".
Ten of the 22 Indian traders, charged with smuggling diamonds worth $7.3 million (about Rs 36.5 crore) into China, were on Wednesday sentenced to varied prison terms ranging from 23 months to six years by a Shenzhen court, which ordered the deportation of the remaining 12.
'It would have been easy to make a small film with Tiger in a basti or an action film like Pushpa which was all mud, grunge and a repeat of what I had done before.'
A primary school teacher in China's Gansu province has been executed for the rape and sexual abuse of 26 minor girls.
Communist China's biggest political trial in decades involving disgraced top politician Bo Xilai ended on Monday on an acrimonious note, with prosecutors demanding "severe" punishment for the defiant pro-Maoist leader who accused a key official witness of having illicit relations with his wife.
Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted Chinese leader Bo Xilai, has confessed in writing about her involvement in the murder of a British businessman, while four police officers admitted covering up the crime, state media reported on Friday.
The plaintiff, identified as Lee, claims technology used in the video-calling application violates his patent.
Close on the heels of the UK high court delivering a mixed verdict on the patent case of cholesterol lowering drug, atorvastastin between Ranbaxy and Pfizer, a Norwegian court has given another mixed ruling.\n\n
Isn't it time to review the 'fit and proper' criteria for banking licence, particularly with reference to individuals applying for it, asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay?
In another setback to India's biggest drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, a court in Finland has prohibited it from marketing its generic version of Pfizer's cholesterol lowering drug Lipitor in the country.
The remarks by Gandhi came on a day when he told the Supreme Court that he stood by every word he had said about the RSS being behind the killing of Mahatma Gandhi.
Huang, also known as Wong Kwong-yu, was convicted by the Beijing No 2 Intermediate People's Court with also ordered confiscation worth 200 million yuan of his assets.
'Crony capitalism will gain due to these Acts.'
The ruling was handed down by the Intermediate People's Court of Changsha City, capital of central China's Hunan Province, Xinhua news agency reported.
After a long wait, the Shapoorji Pallonji Group has closed the sale process of its consumer durables business under the Eureka Forbes label by picking the American private equity fund Advent International's Rs 4,400-crore offer for a 72 per cent stake. The sale process, which began in November 2019, will help the over 156-year-old SP Group pair the debt pile and sharpen the focus on the flagship construction and engineering business under Afcons. The valuation of Rs 4,400 crore for a 72.56 per cent stake is is at an enterprise level and subject to closing adjustments and also includes an open offer for the remaining stake after the demerger and listing of Eureka Forbes, the SP group said in a statement on Sunday.
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, will likely consider on Saturday a GST rate cut for Covid-19 relief essentials and drugs for treating the black fungus disease and might leave the vaccines untouched. The meeting is being held following a report submitted by a Group of Ministers (GoM) to the GST Council on Monday. The GoM, set up by the Council on May 28, was mandated to look at tax exemption and concessions on various Covid items including vaccines, drugs, and equipment.
China has 17 people to jail terms ranging from three years to life in prison for their alleged involvement in the worst monks-led anti-government protest since 1989 in the Tibetan capital Lhasa. Riots had erupted in Lhasa on March 14 during the anti-government protests that left 20 people dead and hundreds of others injured in Tibet and elsewhere.
Masood, who has been recently booked for hate speech, has five pending cases in various courts on charges of forgery and intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace among others.
'It is just that they are not in the limelight in a city like Mumbai.' 'It is not a lonely journey, but a tough journey for sure.'
Global auto giant, General Motors Daewoo has sued a Chinese car-maker for allegedly copying the design of Matiz, one of its small car and is demanding a compensation of nearly $10 million.
A former secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China was on Monday sentenced to 5 years in prison for dereliction of duty in one of the largest election frauds in the country, involving a bribery of more than USD 18 million.
To make the scheme attractive, the government has announced a rate structure wherein the operators may take the optical fibre on lease and provide broadband connectivity to customers.
