ISLAMABAD: In a setback to the prosecution of seven suspects charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a Pakistani court today ruled that all findings of a judicial commission that visited India were illegal and could not be made part of the evidence against the accused.Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman, the judge of the Rawalpindi- based anti-terrorism court no. 1, said...
NEW DELHI: India has sought a report from its Ambassador in the UAE on the killing of an Indian fisherman in a US Navy ship firing at a docking point in Dubai even as the US today said the incident is under investigation.External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has sought a report on the incident from Indian Ambassador to...
NEW YORK: McKinsey's former India-born partner Anil Kumar whose "extraordinary" cooperation helped convict Wall Street tycoons Raj Rajaratnam and Rajat Gupta in insider trading trials deserves leniency at his sentencing later this week, US prosecutors here have said.Ahead of his expected sentencing on July 19 for securities fraud charges, Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara, in a 20-page letter to...
COIMBATORE: Two senior Sri Lankan defense officials today left here cutting short their visit to the Defense Services Staff College in Wellington in the wake of protests by political parties in Tamil Nadu against imparting training to them by India.Air Vice Marshal Jegath Julanga Diaz of the Sri Lankan Air Force and Rear Admiral S Ranasinghe of the Lankan...
In a previous article, "The Prejudice Caused By Summary Removal After Visa Waiver Admission: What the Third Circuit Missed in Vera and Bradley"(www.cyrusmehta.com), I discussed the case of Vera v. Attorney General of the U.S., in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that a woman who had entered the United States at the age...
BOSTON: Gov. Deval Patrick has asked the Legislature to amend a state budget provision that would require anyone seeking to register a car in Massachusetts to provide proof of legal U.S. residency, calling the measure ``overbroad.''
Patrick, in a message sent to lawmakers, said he would not go along with efforts to compel state authorities to enforce U.S. immigration laws.
``The...
LONG BEACH, CA: Healthcare has come to occupy center stage, especially after the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding the Affordable Health Care Act enabling nearly 47 Million Americans without health coverage to buy or obtain health care coverage. Physicians play a central role in providing healthcare services to every individual, both in preventing as well as treating diseases.Physicians of...
DALLAS: Gov. Rick Perry has said that Texas won't establish an online marketplace for patients to shop for insurance or expand Medicaid, two key elements of the federal health care overhaul.
In a letter sent to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Perry said both elements ``represent brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state.''
``I will not be...
HELENA, Mont.: The state Supreme Court says obesity qualifies as an impairment in some cases under the Montana Human Rights Act, potentially allowing obese people to seek greater protection against discrimination.
The divided court handed down the ruling in a case between Eric Feit and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, finding that if a person's weight is outside the normal...
Can you wrap your mind around a 10-day convention where delegates from the US, Iran, Israel, Turkey, Zimbabwe, India, China, Russia, Ukraine, Great Britain and many other countries gather together and build a world of friendship?Such a convention is actually happening now in Cincinnati at the 7th World Choir Games, the Olympics of choral music – the largest international...