Legal News – Newsletter for November 21, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Sean Connery, wife to deposit multi-million dollar bond
LONDON – Veteran actor Sean Connery and his wife Micheline Roquebrune are among 26 people who have been ordered by a Spanish court to deposit a combined bond of $82 million as part of an ongoing property fraud and money laundering probe.
The probe stems from the sale in 1998 of Casa Malibu, a …. Read the original article : here.
Protestors try to stop Arundhati at meet
BHUBANESWAR – Eleven activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) were arrested Sunday for trying to prevent writer-activist Arundhati Roy from attending a meeting here, police said.
Roy was invited to the event organised by human rights groups and tribal organisations.
“We arrested 11 ABVP protestors,” Deputy Commissioner of Police H.K. Lal told IANS.
… Read : Protestors try to stop Arundhati at meet.
Empty chair protest at Nobel peace prize ceremony
LONDON – A Chinese dissident in the US plans to send a message by placing “two empty chairs on the stage” during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for jailed pro-democracy Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo.
Yang Jianli, a Chinese veteran of the Tiananmen protests of 1989, is acting as a go between in the preparations for … Original source on Gaea Times at : Empty chair protest at Nobel peace prize ceremony.
Mizoram tribal refugees resist repatriation from Tripura
AGARTALA – The Mizoram government is going ahead with its programme to relocate Reang tribals, who fled to neighbouring Tripura after ethnic clashes 13 years ago, an official said Saturday, but the tribals continued to resist the move.
Over 41,600 Reang tribals, locally called Bru, have been living in six camps in north Tripura’s Kanchanpur …. Original article on Gaea Times at : Mizoram tribal refugees resist repatriation from Tripura.
Tractors seized, power cut off, say Vidharbha farmers
NAGPUR – Even as Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan decided to accord top priority to Vidarbha, which has one of the highest incidence of farmers suicides in the country, authorities have seized tractors and cut off power supplies of debt-ridden farmers, that too on the eve of harvesting season, a farmers’ group said Saturday.
…. Original article : Tractors seized, power cut off, say Vidharbha farmers.
PM seeks to clear airwaves on 2G spectrum scam (Intro Roundup)
NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dealt suitably with every letter to him for sanction to prosecute then communications minister A. Raja on the alleged second generation (2G) spectrum scam, the Supreme Court was informed Saturday in an affidavit, and sought to set the record straight on a political storm that threatened to envelop … Read the original article on Gaea Times at : PM seeks to clear airwaves on 2G spectrum scam (Intro Roundup).
Mizoram tribals protest repatriation
AGARTALA – The Tripura government is going ahead with its programme to relocate Reang tribals, who settled in the state after ethnic clashes in Mizoram, an official said Saturday, but the tribals continued to protest the move.
Over 41,600 Reang tribals, locally called Bru, have been living in six camps in north Tripura’s Kanchanpur sub-division … Read more >>>.
Every letter of Swamy dealt with, PMO says in affidavit (Third Lead)
NEW DELHI – The Prime Minister’s Office Saturday told the Supreme Court that every communication received from Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy was duly responded to in action, and the decision to grant prosecution of then telecom minister A. Raja could not have been taken without carefully examining the evidence collected by the CBI.