Doug Jones scored a stunning upset in the Alabama Senate race as he defeated accused paedophile Roy Moore, in a huge blow to US President Donald Trump.
'Trump will do significant damage in the short term'
You pay the mediclaim insurance premium of your brother's policy from your salary. Will you be eligible for tax deduction? Will your bonus and ex gratia be tax exempt?
The SC clarified that it has not asked for non-registration of an FIR for the offences under the SC/ST Act.
The suspect is said to have a criminal history and ties to New York.
He did not give any specific reason for withdrawing from hearing the case.
The top court said the government wants to tap citizens' WhatsApp messages and sought its response within two weeks.
CJI Gogoi said the conduct and sensitivity displayed by Justice Sikri as a judge will continue to inspire the young.
Justice Karnan passed a 'suo motu judicial order in the interest of the nation to protect the general public from corruption and unrest'.
The problem is with the broking model and what brokers are allowed to do, notes Debashis Basu.
Dr Narendra Nagareddy from Atlanta was arrested in January. He is being held in a county jail without bound.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter and its secretary general Jerome Valcke have both hired high-powered US lawyers to represent them as a corruption probe roils soccer's global governing body.
Third time lucky is an apt phrase to describe the remarkable rise of Joe Biden, a veteran in US politics for around five decades, from being one of the youngest senators in history to the oldest American president-to-be.
The Centre had termed privacy as a 'vague and amorphous' right which cannot be granted primacy to deprive poor people of their rights to life, food and shelter.
Wants another committee to review adverse report of experts against 6 dams
The US National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation spied on five prominent Muslim-American activists, including an Indian-origin attorney, according to the leaked documents which showed use of objectionable religious slurs against these individuals.
The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court it would examine the current status of development in 61 coal blocks allocated to companies, on a case-by-case basis, and take a decision within six weeks.
'Work will now be basically file movements from one desk to another as both the government and the agency would not like to antagonise the court.'
The CBI filed the appeal against the May 31, 2005 decision of the high court by which all accused, including Europe-based industrialists Hinduja brothers, were discharged from the Rs 64-crore pay-off case.
The Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday ordered action against former prime minister Raja Parvez Ashraf and several others in the multi-billion rupee development funds case.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi ordered that the confidential CVC report be given to Verma in a sealed cover and asked him to respond to it by Monday, also in a sealed cover. It will take up the matter on Tuesday.
India has sought 60 more days from an arbitration tribunal at London to respond to a claim of about $6 billion as compensation from GE and Bechtel, the foreign promoters of now-defunct Dabhol Power project in Maharashtra.
While there were no surprises on policy issues from either side, there were far less interruptions and tense moments between Pence, 61, who comes from Indiana and his Democrat challenger Harris, 55, who is from California.
'Has the Supreme court even remotely said that PM Modi is not chowkidar?'
The bench made clear that it will not shift the schedule date of hearing and asked him to file his response 'as quickly as possible' during the day by 4 pm itself to enable it to peruse the reply.
St John's church was set ablaze on Sunday night as protesters demanded justice for the killing of Floyd, a 46-year-old man who was pinned to the ground in Minneapolis last week by a white police officer who kneeled on his neck as he gasped for breath.
Physicist Stephen Hawking to trademark his name.
The state may have some power to put reasonable restriction, says the apex court.
President Pranab Mukherjee administered the oath of office and secrecy to Justice Kehar at the Darbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhawan.
The spy agency had tapped 6,523 phone numbers in February, 6,819 in March, 6,742 in April
The office of American prosecutor Preet Bharara, whose decision to charge Devyani Khobargade on visa fraud touched off a furor in India, on Friday refused to comment on India's strong response to his statement.
The SC ordered a halt to preparations for snap elections on January 5.
'Those of us who care for the Indian Constitution worry,' says Aakar Patel.
News that transpired on and off the football field.
The bank can declare a withdrawal by you as illegal and deny any remedy in case a problem arises.
'Rahul Gandhi has personally paid a heavy price for this character assassination and remorseless ridiculing and the Congress, of course, has been demolished politically.'
Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the United States, a controversy has broken out over the nuclear liability law with reports suggesting that an agreement will be signed which may not be in tune with the law.
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