Migrants to become majority in Australia by 2025

SYDNEY – Migrants from other countries including India will overtake the number of locally-born residents in Australia by 2025, a media report said Sunday.

An Australian-born family will become a minority within the next 15 years, outnumbered by a surging wave of migrants from Europe and Asia, the Daily Telegraph reported quoting demographic consultants Macroplan Australia. … Read : Migrants to become majority in Australia by 2025.

Agra protection home fails to protect its young

AGRA – The Children’s Protection Home in Agra had handed over 10 young children for adoption to couples between 2004 and 2006. Today there is no trace of six of them.

In 2009, shocking accusations of sexual abuse made by three young girl inmates against an employee of the home led to a first information report … Read more »».

Judge orders West Memphis slaying victim’s stepdad to pay Dixie Chicks singer’s legal costs

Victim’s stepdad told to pay singer’s legal costs

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A federal judge says the stepfather of one of three Arkansas boys slain in 1993 must pay Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines’ legal costs stemming from a defamation lawsuit he filed against the band.
District Judge Brian S. Miller ordered Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of … Original source on Gaea Times at : Judge orders West Memphis slaying victim’s stepdad to pay Dixie Chicks singer’s legal costs.

Charges against Goldman likely to kick off a torrent of bank lawsuits, mire Goldman

Goldman case likely to unleash torrent of lawsuits

WASHINGTON – Government lawyers are facing many potential pitfalls as they attempt to prove the civil fraud charges against Goldman Sachs & Co.
Experts say the Securities and Exchange Commission will need to lay out a complex set of facts based on what appears to be hazy evidence. SEC …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Charges against Goldman likely to kick off a torrent of bank lawsuits, mire Goldman.

70 Lok Sabha MPs hadn’t revealed assets till Feb 24 (Lead, superseding earlier story)

NEW DELHI – At least 70 Lok Sabha MPs, including former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad and cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, had not disclosed details of their assets till Feb 24, a Right to Information (RTI) application has revealed.

The information was obtained in reply to an application filed …. Original article  : 70 Lok Sabha MPs hadn’t revealed assets till Feb 24 (Lead, superseding earlier story).

Bill Ayers suing Univ. of Wyoming after lecture banned

Ayers suing Univ. of Wyo.
LARAMIE, Wyo. – Bill Ayers and a University of Wyoming student are suing the school after it banned the former 1960s radical from speaking on campus.

Ayers, who is a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, makes college speeches and is routinely picketed, but the University of Wyoming last week banned him … Read more >>>.

File charges in 2008 blast case by May 15: Court to police

NEW DELHI – A city court Saturday allowed Delhi Police 30 days’ time to finish their investigation and file a chargesheet against two suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists for their alleged roles in serial blasts in 2008.

Additional Sessions Judge Santosh Snehi Mann ordered the Special Cell of the police to file the chargesheets by … Read more : File charges in 2008 blast case by May 15: Court to police.

Hearing deferred on CBI’s move to close Quattrochi case

NEW DELHI – A city court Saturday deferred till May 15 a decision on a plea to stop the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from closing the two-decade-old Bofors payoff case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrochi.

Metropolitan Magistrate Sandeep Garg adjourned the case after Additional Solicitor General P.P. Malhotra submitted that the original records related …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Hearing deferred on CBI’s move to close Quattrochi case.

Verdict on Manu’s plea in Jessica murder likely Monday

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce Monday its verdict on the appeal of Manu Sharma, the son of former Congress parliamentarian Venod Sharma, against his conviction and life term for murdering ramp model Jessica Lall in 1999.

A bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice Swantanter Kumar had reserved its verdict on … Read more : Verdict on Manu’s plea in Jessica murder likely Monday.

Activists seek changes in food security bill

NEW DELHI – Activists of the Right to Food campaign who have been protesting at Jantar Mantar in the capital for the past two days, Saturday submitted a memorandum to the Planning Commission seeking changes in the food security bill.

One of the main demands that the group has made is to introduce universal entitlement of …. Source article  : Activists seek changes in food security bill.