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GENOCIDE TASK FORCE

   09 December 2008 at 10:06

For Immediate ReleaseDecember 8, 2008Contact: Andrew Hollinger, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 202-488-6133 Lauren Sucher, United States Institute of Peace. 202-429-3822Genocide Prevention Task Force Delivers Blueprint for U.S. Gover ..

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Court halts perjury moves against Pawar

   07 December 2008 at 11:30

New Delhi: India’s Supreme Court on Friday stopped criminal proceedings against the country’s top cricket officials on perjury charges. The Calcutta High Court had last month ordered police to file the charges against six officials of the Board of Co ..

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SC refuses CBI probe into Nanded, Malegaon blasts

   06 December 2008 at 20:36

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL filed by Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind president Maulana Arshad Madani seeking a CBI probe into the alleged involvement of Hindu fundamentalists in the 2006 Nanded blasts and the one in Malegaon ..

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SC gives reprieve to Pawar, BCCI officials in perjury case

   06 December 2008 at 00:48

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and five other BCCI officials received a reprieve with the Supreme Court staying a Calcutta High Court's directive to initiate criminal proceedings against them for filing "false" affidavits in the Jagmohan Dal ..

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Indian to be tried for murder of wife today

   05 December 2008 at 11:09

New York, Dec. 4: Indian national Jo-seph Palli-purath, who drove all across the US from California to New Jersey to kill his 24-year-old wife, has been brought to Georgia to face trial. Palliparuth, a native of Kerala, who was shackled as he was tak ..

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Petition in SC seeks federal agency to take on terrorists

   04 December 2008 at 23:53

A writ petition seeking direction to the Union government to constitute a national investigating agency to combat growing incidents of terrorist violence in the country has been filed in the Supreme Court.The petition filed by advocate Abani Kumar Sa ..

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Ignore delay in lodging of FIR in sexual offences: SC

   04 December 2008 at 20:20

New Delhi, Dec 3 (PTI) The Supreme Court has ruled that courts cannot quash a case against an accused involved in sexual offences merely because there was a delay in lodging the FIR."There are several factors which weigh in the mind of the prosecutri ..

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CVC recovers Rs40cr as fine in corruption cases

   03 December 2008 at 00:29

NEW DELHI: The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has recovered Rs40.62cr as fine from government departments and public sector undertakings while investigating corruption cases up to the month of October from January this year. While the Commission ..

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BCCI Sec, VP and ex secretary move SC in perjury case

   03 December 2008 at 00:29

BCCI president Shashank V Manohar, Secretary N Srinivasan, vice president Chirayu Amin and ex-BCCI secretary Niranjan Rasiklal Shah have moved the Supreme Court against Calcutta High Court order directing their prosecution for indulging in perjury by ..

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SC lets off woman in hubby’s suicide case

   02 December 2008 at 21:48

New Delhi: Harassed by a husband’s ‘ugly’ taunts, if a wife commits suicide within seven years of marriage, the man is sure to be booked under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code for harassing her in the matrimonial home. The reverse has happened. ..

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