Nikam said it was not yet clear whether Headley would plead guilty to all the charges or only to some of the charges but this, in any case, would not affect the 26/11 case in the Mumbai court as the trial has already reached its fag end.
Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, charged with conspiring in the Mumbai terror attacks, is set to plead guilty before a US court in an apparent bid to bargain for a lighter sentence and escape death penalty.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction and life sentence awarded to Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to stand trial in a US court in the 9/11 attacks.
Last month, M&M's exclusive US distributor, Global Vehicles, had filed a lawsuit against the Indian firm before an Atlanta District Court, alleging an inordinate delay in the launch of the pick-up truck. GV had claimed to have made an overall investment of $103.5 million (about Rs 480 crore) along with franchisees to sell M&M's pick-up truck based on Scorpio platform.
After Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam closed his arguments in the case, Judge Tahiliani informed that the court will record Kasab's statement on December 18.
The sentencing of Indian Institute of Technology alumnus Vikram Buddhi, who has been in prison since 2006 for posting hate messages against former president George Bush has been postponed for Friday by a US court. The sentence hearing for 38-year-old PhD student of Purdue University was postponed on Thursday as the judge said there are certain other legal issues that need to be addressed.
Gupta's two-year prison term is set to end in March 2016.
Beleaguered General Motors on Tuesday said it will acquire its strongest operations, including the Indian business, once the company steers itself out of bankruptcy.
Ex-employee Steven Heldt had sued the company for favouring South Asians and discriminating against American workforce.
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".
The court also hit Microsoft with a $287 million fine.
An Indian-American man has been sentenced by a US court to 12 years in jail and ordered to pay $68 million for his involvement in an elaborate Internet scam that obtained a whopping $200 million by illegally selling addictive medicines to cyber customers and drug users.
The purchase agreement includes both companies taking on $33.5 million of the suitmaker's debt.
He was convicted in his 2012 trial of passing confidential boardroom information to his one-time friend and business associate Raj Rajaratnam
An Indian-American widow will have to forfeit her 34-room mansion in New YorkState after she lost her appeal to overturn a 2013 conviction for harbouring an illegal immigrant from Kerala for over five years and subjecting her to slave-like conditions.
The bankruptcy filings count ballooned 33.3 per cent to 1,202,503 for the 12-month period ending March 31, 2008. In the comparable period, the same stood at 9,01,927, the statistics from the Administrative Office of the US Courts showed.
Financial globalisation - or ultra globalisation - has done more harm than good to the majority of economies, say Anshuman Gupta & Karunakar Jha.
United States President Barack Obama has appointed two Indian-Americans, Rashad Hussain and Shomik Datta, to his legal team -- the White House Counsel. Hussain has been appointed as Deputy Associate Counsel to the US President and Dutta will be special assistant to President's Counsel, Greg Craig, the White House said. These appointments were made on January 28.
The suit was filed on behalf of purchasers of Satyam's ADRs between January 6, 2004 through January 6, 2009. Price Waterhouse, the Indian unit of the global audit major, has been maintaining that it followed all the standard accounting principles while auditing the books of Satyam Computers. However, it also said that its auditing on Satyam could be construed invalid if the statements made by Raju in his admission letter on January 7 about the fraud were correct.
Asked about the specific damages sought in the lawsuit, law firm Vianale & Vianale LLP's counsel Keneth J Vianale said that the sum duped could be in hundreds of millions of dollars. After the scandal was revealed, trading in Satyam shares was halted by the NYSE on January 7 and the stock exchange has said that it is assessing whether the firm deserves to stay on the bourses.
A new class action lawsuit was filed in the US courts on Friday against Satyam Computer, which already has two more such suits against it there filed on behalf of thousands of investors in the American Depositary Shares of the Indian IT firm.
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade on Friday asserted that the charges against her in a US court are "false and baseless" and the stand taken by her and the Indian government in the case will be "vindicated".
An Indian American businessman was sentenced to 35 months in jail and slapped a US$ 60,000 fine by a US court for shipping restricted military technology to Indian government entities engaged in missile and fighter jet production.Parthasarathy Sudarshan was convicted of acquiring electrical components with applications in missile guidance and firing systems in the US and supplying them to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and Bharat Dynamics Ltd between 2002 and 2006.
A United States judge has reserved ruling on a lawsuit filed in New York by a Sikh rights group against the Congress party in the anti-Sikh riots after hearing arguments by it that the case should be dismissed since the incidents of 1984 are India's internal matters.
Upaid, which is already fighting a forgery case against Satyam in a US court, had last week filed a motion against Satyam Computer Services with the state court, saying that they are looking for a testimony from Ramalinga Raju, CFO Srinivas Vadlamani, and the company's head of corporate governance Jayraman after the abortive Maytas deal.
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 multi-millionaire Indian-American couple, found guilty of virtually enslaving two Indonesian maids, has been ordered to pay nearly $1 million in back wages to their former housekeepers by a US court. The court declared on Friday that the workers are entitled to double the amount of unpaid wages they were owed by their employees, Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani.
A Mumbai court on Thursday pardoned Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Headley, who had surveyed targets for the 26/11 attacks, and made him an approver in the case, a move that may unravel the conspiracy behind the brazen terror assault.
Congress party president Sonia Gandhi will not depose in New York in a human rights violation lawsuit filed against her by a Sikh rights group, her attorney has said.
Daryan and Daryll Warner, sons of former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner, and their associates deposited more than $600,000 in cash at bank branches in New York, Miami and Las Vegas in the second half of 2011, according to a 2012 complaint in US District Court in New York that was unsealed on Wednesday.
It might give Apple a boost in the fast-growing Indian, Middle East and African markets but also risks cutting its average phone prices and profit margins
The sentencing came 32 months after Bansal was arrested with a plane ticket to India following a two-year probe dubbed Operation Cyberchase. It was US Drug Enforcement Administration's first-ever major investigation of its type.
The United States on Tuesday virtually justified the reported strip search by New York police of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, saying "standard procedures" have been followed during her arrest.
India is likely to appeal against the decision of a US court upholding imposition of $ 42.4 million property tax on it by the city for using the United Nations Mission's building in New York for residential purposes.India has been arguing that tax cannot be levied as the diplomatic staff, which occupies the 20 floors of building in midtown Manhattan across the United Nations headquarters, is exempt from tax.
The case of India-born surgeon Jayant Patel, arrested in the US over death of 17 patients in Australia, is all set to be heard by a US court on Monday, which could see the defamed doctor filing a fresh bail plea.
Prakashanand Saraswati, 79, founder of the Barsana Dham centre in north Hays County in Texas -- one of the biggest Hindu temples in the US -- was arrested at an airport in Washington, DC last week. Known to his followers as Shiree Swamiji, the priest is accused of groping two underage girls on several occasions in the 1990s.
Judge Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan is the front-runner to replace the late Justice Anthony Scalia on the US Supreme Court.
An Indian man, left partially paralysed when he was slammed to the ground by an American police officer, recounted his ordeal as he took the witness stand in a US court.
Abbott and Astellas dismiss Omnicef violation case.
The Federal Trade Commission said the defendants used phony debt collection calls from India and bogus claims that they would reduce consumers' credit card interest rates to bilk consumers.
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