“I took it simply for the fact that it gives me a fool-proof identity. I’m very happy with it. I had no problem giving my biometrics. You give your biometrics to passport office. When you go to Europe you give your biometrics at the immigration
Calcutta High Court lawyers are set to resume work on Monday after a 70-day cease-work, the longest in the court’s history since its establishment in 1862, but the bench and bar may have a daunting task ahead. Data on the Calcutta HC’s website show it disposed
A police officer who testified that police framed two Reuters reporters has been sentenced to an undisclosed prison term for violating Myanmar’s Police Disciplinary Act, a police spokesman told Reuters on Sunday, without elaborating. Captain Moe Yan Naing told the court on April 20 that
Christine Howell planned to spend two years straight travelling and working in Australia from her arrival in Melbourne last December without breaking her trip to return home to Ireland. The timing felt right. Howell, 27, had qualified as an optician but wasn’t ready to settle.
The United States is deeply concerned by Iran’s “destabilising and malign activities”, new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday. The former CIA director was speaking on a flying visit to the region, where he had earlier
“I’m sorry, I’m not normally lost for words. I find this astonishing.” Over 100 residents living just north of Dungog in the NSW Hunter region have been directed to sign a legal document by Hunter Water saying they won’t drink their household water. Locals have
Noble Group Ltd.’s dissident shareholder Goldilocks Investment Co. listed a raft of hedge funds and banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG, as defendants in its legal battle against the commodity trader, as the fund presses on with a bid to stop
THERE ARE A lot of legal terms that will be coming up in the context of the abortion referendum over the next few week – many of which are important to understand. But, often, they can be mentioned in media coverage without explanation. And it’s
The delivery company Hermes faces a legal battle with a group of its own drivers today, in the latest case promising to have major ramifications on labour rights in the growing gig economy. The move follows similar recent hearings on how companies, including the ride-hailing firm Uber, engage
Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US House Intelligence Committee released its final report absolving the Trump campaign from involvement in Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. In the almost 250-page report, Republicans concluded that the year-long investigation has produced no evidence