'For The First Time Voters Will Have To Prove Their Indian Citizenship'

'40 percent of voters in Bihar will be excluded.' Photograph: ANI Photo   The Election Commission of India has launched a comprehensive voter verification exercise across Bihar as the state......

Soli Sorabjee was a Lion of the Law

'Soli steadfastly believed in Voltaire's famous dictum that he would disagree violently with anyone but defend to death that person's right to disagree with him.'Aditi Phadnis remembers Soli......

Soli Sorabjee, former attorney general, dies of Covid-19

Distinguished jurist and former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee, who appeared in several historic cases like Kesavananda Bharti and S R Bommai, passed away due to COVID-19 at a hospital in New Delhi......

AG Soli J Sorabjee resigns

Attorney General Soli J Sorabjee submitted his resignation from the constitutional post to President A P J Abdul Kalam on the first day of the new government assuming charge.Sorabjee's resignation......

Firms bound by governance, says Soli Sorabjee

Good governance is not the exclusive domain or obligation of the state. Business enterprises and large corporations are also obliged to play a role in ensuring good governance because they wield......

Whistleblower accuses Edelweiss ARC of fund diversion, other irregularities

Whistleblower, Paras Kuhad, alleged that Edelweiss Group and Caisse de depot et placement du Québec, a Canadian institutional investor, which hold stakes in the ARC, diverted funds and did......

US Labour Secretary denies plan to kill H-1B visa

US Labor Secretary Hilda S Solis has denied that a new programme launched by the Obama administration is aimed at killing the H-1B visa programme even though she declared the H-1B technical skills......

India and US sign MoU on labour issues

US Secretary of Labor, Hilda L Solis, and India's Minister of Labour and Employment, Mallikarjun Kharge, on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding at the Department of Labor in Washington......

Solis maintains Cuban heavyweight grip

Odlanier Solis maintained Cuba's grip on the showcase heavyweight boxing title by outpointing Viktar Zuyev of Belarus in the final of the Olympic tournament on Saturday.Zuyev started strongly and......

Klitschko retains WBC title with Solis knock-out

Vitaly Klitschko easily retained his WBC heavyweight title on Saturday with a first-round knockout of Cuban challenger Odlanier Solis. Some 19,000 fans were stunned to see the 39-year-old......

PIX: Messi tattoos a huge hit in Argentina!

IMAGE: Many flocked to Buenos Aires's tattoo parlors to commission designs depicting Lionel Messi. Photographs: Magali Druscovich/Reuters Since Argentina's World Cup win turned Buenos Aires into a......

World C'ships: Prannoy stuns Momota, Lakshya advances

  IMAGE: H S Prannoy registered his first ever win over Kento Momota in 8 matches to advance at the BWF Championships in Tokyo on Wednesday. Photograph: Olympic Khel/Twitter H S Prannoy......

More COVID cases at Tokyo Olympics

  IMAGE: A security officer stands guard near the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games Athletes' Village in Tokyo. Photograph: Naoki Ogura/Reuters Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday confirmed......