In an opinion filed in a New York Federal Court on Thursday, the justice department said the amended settlement raises anti-trust concerns.
Ragbir, 43, was arrested on January 12 during a routine check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and ordered immediate deportation, irking local community in New York.
A government official was shot dead and another critically injured by an alleged gunman inside the premises of a federal court in Las Vegas.
A federal court in Washington DC had issued summons to Dr Singh in 2013 during his visit to Washington. Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) filed a motion in the court, requesting extension of time to serve the summons to Singh in India.
A Sikh rights group on Tuesday secured a summons from a United States judge to be served on Congress President Sonia Gandhi at a hospital where she is believed to be under medical care in a case filed against her for "shielding and protecting" party leaders allegedly involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
US federal authorities were in the process of seizing four mosques and a 36-storey skyscraper in Manhattan that are owned by a nonprofit Muslim organisation long suspected of having ties to the Iranian government.
Indian investigators would join their Federal Bureau of Investigation counterparts on Monday to question David Coleman Headley, nabbed by FBI for plotting a major terror attack in India at LeT's behest, as fresh inputs indicated that he was planning to visit Pakistan this month.
'Having dealt with security and insurgency for 15 years, I am fully convinced that the steps taken by the government in regard to J&K and the measures in force there are essential,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
Pakistani-Canadian terror suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana has contended before a US court that his financial status has taken a beating after his arrest by FBI and he cannot flee the country as he will not be able to "fund an international game of hide and seek".
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three of his companies were charged with "massive" fraud on Tuesday as federal agents swooped down on his US headquarters. In a civil complaint filed in federal court in Dallas, the US Securities and Exchange Commission accused Stanford, who sponsored international cricket matches, and two other executives of fraudulently selling $8 billion in high-yield certificates of deposit in a scheme..
The world's most famous fast food chain McDonald's has lost an eight-year legal battle to prevent a local Malaysian Indian restaurant 'McCurry' from using the "Mc" trademark in its name, with the country's highest court dismissing its plea.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Environmental campaigners say they hope two outstanding court cases can still stop India's Adani Enterprises Ltd from developing a A$10 billion ($7.6 billion) coal project.
A fiery British cleric accused of facilitating violent jihad in Afghanistan and setting up a terrorist training camp in the United States was convicted by a court in New York on 11 terrorism charges and faces a maximum prison sentence of life.
.jpg)
Adani CEO Jeyakumar Janakraj said the Adani issue was not on the agenda of Jaitley's visit.
Brazilian soccer legend Pel has sued Samsung Electronics Co for at least $30 million, alleging the Korean company improperly used a look-alike in an advertisement that ran in the New York Times without permission.
United States President Barack Obama has nominated yet another Indian-American counsel to the key post of US District Court judge for Washington, DC.
Martoma, 40, was ordered by US District Judge Paul Gardephe to surrender by Thursday afternoon, after he lost his bid last week to remain free on bail pending appeal of his conviction.
Upaid has filed for damages exceeding $1 billion on charges of forgery, fraud and breach of contracts. The cases have been filed in a federal court and a state court in Texas, USA. The legal teams of UK-based Upaid and Satyam Computer Services are holding talks for an out-of-court settlement of a case filed by the UK-based mobile payment services firm. The hearing of the case is on June 1.
India's largest drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories, which is fighting a patent battle with the world's largest drug maker Pfizer on the cholesterol lowering drug Lipitor in about 18 countries, got a mixed verdict from the Full Court of Federal Court of Australia.
A United States court has ordered Congress President Sonia Gandhi to provide a copy of her passport as documentary evidence by April 7 to determine if she was in America in September last year when a Sikh rights group claims it had served summons on her in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
US President Donald Trump has slammed federal judge James Robart who lifted the travel ban he had imposed on citizens of seven mainly-Muslim countries, taking an unusual jab at an independent branch of the US government as he vowed to bring back the restrictions.
Cuban faces insider trading charges for avoiding a $750,000 loss on an investment in an Internet search company.
The suit filed in federal court in New York City, which also names RJ Softwares, the Kolkata-based company owned by Rajat Agarwalla, 27, and Jayant Agarwalla, 22, seeks unspecified damages and a court order barring them from using the name 'Scrabulous' to refer to their game.
India has historically not had a strong compliance mechanism around insider trading. This is in stark contrast to developed countries.
Former U.S. track star Tim Montgomery, an Olympic gold medallist now banned from the sport, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison on heroin charges.
Gautam Adani's plan to build one of the world's biggest coal mines in Australia has been hampered time and again.
Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal welcomed the Court of Arbitration for Sport's decision that allowed Indian sprinter Dutee Chand to resume her career, which was brought to a halt owing to IAAF Regulation on Hyperandrogenism.
The Australian police have said that Mohamed Haneef, who was wrongly accused of links to the failed UK terror plot, continued to remain under investigation despite the government ruling out an appeal against a court decision to reinstate his visa.
Barcelona's appeal against a FIFA sanction for an alleged breach of rules on the transfer of foreign Under-18 players has been rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the Spanish club said on Tuesday.
The world's largest economy, the US, has seen a spurt in bankruptcy cases, with such filings jumping as much as 30 per cent for 12 months ended September 30 compared to the year-ago period.
A Pakistani woman, who mysteriously disappeared five years ago, having alleged links with the al Qaeda, was arraigned in a New York federal court on the charges of attempting to kill American soldiers and officials in Afghanistan and a bail hearing was set for Monday.
An Indian-origin former high-ranking officer has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court here for siphoning off government money to the tune of $9 million, most of which was intended to help identify victims of 9/11 terror attacks, and stashing it away in India.
For Shayana (Shane) Kadidal, a senior managing attorney of the Guantnamo project at the Centre for Constitutional Rights, the recent Supreme Court ruling in favour of the detainees is yet another reminder that the fight for ethical and fair treatment of all prisoners held by the United States has to continue.
Former US sprinter Tim Montgomery, an Olympic gold medallist now banned from the sport, pleaded guilty on Thursday to distributing heroin. According to a guilty plea filed in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, Montgomery faces at least five years in prison and a fine of up to $2 million.
A US federal court in Gatlin's hometown of Pensacola, Florida, held a one-day hearing on a request for a preliminary injunction that would allow the 26-year-old Gatlin to take part in the trials in Eugene, Oregon. Gatlin, who attended the hearing dressed in a brown suit and was accompanied by family members, was suspended for four years after testing positive in 2006 for the male sex hormone testosterone.
Last month, Judge Jeffrey Spender overturned Andrews' decision to cancel the Indian doctor's work visa on character grounds citing "jurisdictional error" on the part of the minister
Haneef, who was working in Gold Coast Hospital in Australia, returned to India in July last year after being cleared of terror charges in the botched Glasgow airport suicide attack in the UK. The Australian government withdrew all the charges and restored his visa a few days ago.
Malaysia's highest court on Thursday rejected on technical grounds an appeal by an ethnic Indian Hindu woman to stop her Muslim convert husband from seeking a divorce in the Islamic 'Shariah' court, while upholding the man's right to change the religion of their youngest son.
Three Indians have joined a Sikh rights group in filing an amended lawsuit appealing a US court to designate the RSS as a "terror group".
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances