Thailand’s king has granted a partial pardon to the ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, commuting his eight-year prison sentence to a year, just days after the politician returned to the country from 15 years of exile, the nation’s official journal reported Friday. Mr. Thaksin, 74, arrived in Thailand on […]
Indian insurance regulator has referred the curious case of Axis Bank and two other group companies buying shares of Max Life Insurance Company Ltd at a very low rate from shareholders/promoters of the insurer and selling them back at a very high price in a matter of few days, to […]
The Supreme Court on Friday held that children born out of “void or voidable” marriages are legitimate and can claim rights in parents’ properties under the Hindu Succession law. According to the Hindu law, the man and woman in a void marriage do not have the status of husband and […]
The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its verdict on a plea of the National Conference challenging the denial of ‘plough’ symbol to its candidates for the upcoming Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) polls on September 10. A bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Ahsanuddin Amanullah concluded hearing arguments on […]
A fire that killed at least 74 people in a five-story building in downtown Johannesburg on Thursday has prompted calls for the authorities to do more to address an acute housing crisis and crack down on the city’s hundreds of such derelict, overcrowded buildings. It was one of the worst […]
The Delhi High Court has allowed a lesbian couple to live their lives in society as per their own style and made clear that the parents, relatives and their associates shall not extend any threat in whatsoever manner directly or indirectly or undue pressure upon the petitioner as well as […]
Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter has won a favourable ruling in one of two civil lawsuits filed against him in Nevada, one by a woman who alleges he raped her on his tour bus in Washington state in 2001 and another by a woman who alleges he sexually assaulted her […]
Reversing course from last year, the Nobel Foundation has extended an invitation to the Nobel Prize ceremonies in December to representatives from Russia and Belarus, who were not invited in 2022 because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Iran, whose representatives were barred from last year’s ceremony because of what the […]
Capital markets regulator Sebi on Friday came out with a proposal to set up a Performance Validation Agency (PVA) to validate any claims of performance by registered intermediaries including investment advisers, research analysts and portfolio managers. The proposed move would facilitate these intermediaries to showcase their validated performance to investors […]
Families of the victims of a fire in downtown Johannesburg were still searching for relatives at mortuaries and hospitals on Friday to see if they had lived or died, a day after the blaze tore through a overcrowded building in one of the deadliest residential fires in South African history. […]