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Pakistan cricket authorities said seven players banned or fined for indiscipline during a disastrous tour of Australia have 30 days to appeal.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) last week banned former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan indefinitely, while suspending another former captain, Shoaib Malik, and fast bowler Rana Naved-ul Hasan for one year.
It handed heavy [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Sep. 11 (ANI): Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) leader M. Manoharan has sued the Malaysian Government for a whopping 100-million-ringgit for calling him a terrorist.

Manoharan, who was accompanied by Hindraf legal adviser P. Uthayakumar, filed the suit against the state and five other defendants at the High Court Registry on Friday, The Star [...]

Klang (Malaysia), July 3 (ANI): Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) legal adviser P. Uthayakumar will form a political party or a non-governmental organisation soon.

“It all depends on the feedback we get from our supporters and well-wishers,” The Star quoted him, as saying.

The organisation, be it a political party or NGO, would be one of its [...]

London, June 19 (ANI): Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi doesn’t need to pay for female company – he can get plenty of women free, his lawyer said.

Following fresh revelations about the premier dominated Italian newspapers, Niccolo Ghedini, Berlusconi’s chief legal adviser, made the comments.

Ghedini spoke after leaked wire taps from a corruption inquiry allegedly [...]

London, May 28 (ANI): Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle is being targeted by cybersquatters, who want to make money from the global interest in Britain’s Got Talent’s contestant.

Boyle is among 33 of the 40 talent show contestants, who have had their domain names registered unofficially and fake Twitter accounts created by web savvy fans keen [...]

Bhopal, May 23 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government will launch a campaign christened “Bitiya” (Daughter) to create awareness against female foeticide and discrimination against girls. Existing laws to curb sex determination tests and foeticide will also be given more teeth.
“A campaign named ‘Bitiya’ would be launched in the state to create awareness against sex determination [...]

Putrajaya (Malaysia), May 12 (ANI): The ban on HINDRAF will be reviewed if the organisation makes an appeal to the Malaysian Home Ministry to reconsider its status, said the country’s Home Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.

“If they want us to reconsider the status, they have to make an appeal. When they do make the appeal, [...]

Kuala Lumpur, May 1 (ANI): A Malaysian Sessions Court has dismissed Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) legal adviser P. Uthayakumar’s application to drop the sedition charge against him.

Judge Sabariah Othman ruled that counsel [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Apr 9 (ANI): The Malaysian Government, Inspector-General of Police, and the Attorney-General have failed in their bid to strike out a RM100 million defamation suit brought against them in the High Court by Hindraf legal adviser P. Uthayakumar.

Judicial commissioner Datin Zabariah Mohd Yusof dismissed their application with costs [...]

Kuala Lumpur, April 4 (IANS) Two ethnic Indian leaders of the banned Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) are among 13 people released from detention ‘in a spirit of reconciliation’ by new Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.
Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar made the announcement Friday evening and said it was Razak’s wish ‘to see members [...]