India setting up integrated checkposts along border

AGARTALA – India is building six integrated checkposts (ICPs) along the border with Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal for facilitating trade and economy and for trans-border passengers, an official said here Tuesday.

These ICPs would be sanitised zones with dedicated passenger and cargo terminals comprising adequate customs and immigration facilities, weigh bridge, security and scanning equipment, health …. Source article on Gaea Times at  : India setting up integrated checkposts along border.

American Center attack: Supreme Court stays Ansari’s death sentence

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the death sentence of Aftab Ahmed Ansari for his role in the 2002 American Centre attack in Kolkata.

A vacation bench of the apex court, comprising Justices G S Singhvi and C K …. Original article  : American Center attack: Supreme Court stays Ansari’s death sentence.

American Center attack: Supreme Court stays Ansari’s death sentence

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the death sentence of Aftab Ahmed Ansari for his role in the 2002 American Centre attack in Kolkata.

A vacation bench of the apex court, comprising Justices G S Singhvi and C K Prasad asked the West Bengal Government to respond within four months to a … Read this article on Gaea Times at : American Center attack: Supreme Court stays Ansari’s death sentence.

A love story has a happy ending – thanks to Internet

LONDON – A Canadian Muslim girl was allowed to marry her Dubai-based Indian lover after she wrote an online appeal for help while being in her father’s “captivity” in Saudi Arabia for three years, according to a report here.

The transcontinental romance between Nazia Quazi, a Canadian of Indian Muslim origin, and Bjorn Singhal, born to … Read this article on Gaea Times at : A love story has a happy ending – thanks to Internet.

Hooters hit with lawsuit by ex-employee who says she was told to hit gym, lose weight

Ex-Hooters employee: I was told to drop weight

ROSEVILLE, Mich. – Hooters is being served with a lawsuit by a former Detroit-area employee who says she was told to agree to lose weight or lose her job.
Cassandra Smith says Hooters violated Michigan law when it placed her on 30-day weight probation earlier this month. She resigned …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

Apex court stays Madras High Court order on bar poll

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court Monday stayed the Madras High Court’s directions related to elections to the high court’s Advocate Association (MHAA) and wondered how could there be discrimination in allowing lawyers exercise their right to vote.

Under the amended provisions approved by the Madras High Court only those MHAA members could be …. Original article  : Apex court stays Madras High Court order on bar poll.

Zardari graft case: Law minister to appear before Supreme Court Tuesday

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s law minister is to appear before the Supreme Court to explain why he has not carried out its directive to reopen a $60 million Swiss money laundering case against President Asif Ali Zardari.

The court has ordered the government to write to the Swiss authorities to reopen the case that was closed …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Zardari graft case: Law minister to appear before Supreme Court Tuesday.

Plea seeking restraint on airfield modernisation dismissed

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a petition seeking to restrain the central government from awarding a contract for the modernisation of 30 airfields of the Indian Air Force to a consortium of companies led by Tata Power’s Strategic Electronic Division (Tata Power SED).

The vacation bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice C.K. …. Source  : Plea seeking restraint on airfield modernisation dismissed.

Dipak Misra sworn in Delhi High Court Chief Justice

New Delhi, May 24 (ANI): Justice Dipak Misra was on Monday sworn in as the new Chief Justice of Delhi High Court.

Justice Misra was on May 14 appointed as the new Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, and had been directed to assume charge of the office of the Chief Justice of … Read the original article on Gaea Times at : Dipak Misra sworn in Delhi High Court Chief Justice.

MCD unwilling to reduce hike in mobile towers licence fee

NEW DELHI – The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Monday told the Delhi High Court that it is not ready to lower the hiked licence fee on the mobile towers in the capital.

Filing a detailed reply explaining the rationale behind the increase in the licence fee, senior advocate Parag Tripathi, appearing for MCD said: “Our …. Source article  : MCD unwilling to reduce hike in mobile towers licence fee.