President Trump wants Latin American countries to shift closer into Washington’s orbit, raising echoes of the Monroe Doctrine, when the United States claimed the Western Hemisphere as its domain. This week, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is hosting President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and other leading officials from Latin America and the Caribbean…
Bangladesh Police have requested Interpol to issue a red corner notice for Sheikh Haseena and 11 others. The request comes more than 8 months after Haseena was ousted following student-led protests in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has also informally requested Haseena’s extradition from India, though there is no official confirmation on this. Source link
President Xi Jinping of China kicked off a weeklong tour of Southeast Asia Monday, landing in Hanoi and trying to rally other nations to Beijing’s side as American tariffs threaten manufacturing networks and economic growth. In an essay published Monday in Vietnamese state media just before his arrival, Mr. Xi called on other countries to…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said that the court should refrain from ordering CBI inquiry in a routine manner and it should direct probe by the central agency only when it comes to a prima facie conclusion that investigation cannot be done properly and fairly by state police.It further said that the court should exercise…
NEW DELHI: Observing that it is not the court’s function to do moral policing, Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside a Punjab and Haryana high court order directing musician Vishal Dadlani and politician Tehseen Poonawalla to pay the cost of Rs 10 lakh for their tweets mocking a Jain monk.A bench of Justices Abhay S…
Lucknow Super Giants spinner Digvesh Rathi NEW DELHI: Lucknow Super Giants spinner Digvesh Rathi found himself in the spotlight again on Friday — not just for his bowling, but for his controversial send-off celebration after dismissing Mumbai Indians batter Naman Dhir at the Ekana Cricket Stadium.In the ninth over of MI’s 204 chase, Rathi clean…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Hungary, defying an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC had charged Netanyahu with war crimes related to Israel military action in Gaza. Netanyahu’s visit is controversial as Hungary is a member of the ICC, which theoretically obliges it to arrest those against whom…
NEW DELHI: In the last one year, the Supreme Court has acquitted more than a dozen persons, who were convicted concurrently by the trial courts and the High Courts and sentenced to death or life imprisonment, in cases that included rape-cum-murder of a 10-year-old girl and manslaughters.Despite repeated SC rulings that concurrent decisions of the…
Donald Trump took the fight over his attempt to restrict automatic US birthright citizenship to the Supreme Court on Thursday as the Republican president’s administration asked the justices to narrow a judicial block imposed on this key element of his hardline approach towards immigration. The Justice Department made the request challenging the scope of three…
File Photo: Supreme Court of India The Supreme Court on Thursday emphasised that courts should not delay matters related to liberty for extended periods. A bench consisting of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih made this remark after learning that the Punjab and Haryana High Court had scheduled the hearing of a plea…