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CORRUPTION LAW Miller and Troy: Why the court of public opinion should reconsider case of ...

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 05 Jun 2016

Our federal corruption laws are currently so vague that they can be misapplied to prosecute any donor or official ... Yes, like virtually all elected officials, he accepted gifts and loans from a donor, which was perfectly legal in Virginia ... Any donor who buys lunch for a politician or any government employee who performs a routine administrative act could be charged by a federal prosecutor with a partisan agenda....

Disclose loan default by Kingdom of Dreams: CIC to IDBI

Edit The Times of India 05 Jun 2016

New Delhi, Jun 5 () The Central Information Commission has directed IDBI Bank to disclose details of alleged loan default by Gurgaon-based entertainment group Kingdom of Dreams in "larger public interest". IDBI Bank, which is already being probed by CBI for alleged loan default of Rs 900 crore to Kingfisher Airlines , had denied information citing commercial confidence and fiduciary relationship with Kingdom of Dreams....

Documents not attached to charge sheet: Hasan Ali to ED

Edit The Hindu 05 Jun 2016

Ali said he has a copy of the letter issued by the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court to the court in Luxembourg, and also their reply pointing out that the ‘Royal Bank of Luxembourg’ does not exist....

Man held for trying to kill elderly woman

Edit The Times of India 05 Jun 2016

A 25-year-old man was arrested for attempting to murder a mentally-challenged 58-year-old woman by smashing her head with a stone at a farm near Valukkuparai here on Friday after she caught him red-handed trying to steal coconuts....

Rubio: We Must End Abuse Of Cuban Refugee Benefits (Marco Rubio)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Jun 2016

2441, the Cuban Immigrant Work Opportunity Act, which would end automatic eligibility for welfare and refugee resettlement benefits for all Cuban immigrants, unless they can prove they are were actually persecuted ... All it says is you will no longer automatically qualify for federal benefits ... 'People ask about the Cuban Adjustment Act and the 'wet-foot, dry-foot' policy ... soil, and then they can appeal to the Cuban Adjustment Act....

Tiger temple scandal exposes the shadowy billion-dollar Asian trade

Edit The Observer 05 Jun 2016

But research by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Australia’s Conservation and Environmental Education 4 Life (Cee4life) and others, backed by investigations for Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network, suggest that more than 5,000 tigers are being farmed in China, 1,450 in Thailand, 180 in Vietnam and possibly 400 in Laos ... Debbie Banks of the EIA has worked undercover at tiger farms in China....

What is the Rajya Sabha for?

Edit Indian Express 05 Jun 2016

The Rajya Sabha should ideally be the chamber where the federal nature of the Constitution gets its play ... That at least was the intention of the Government of India Act, ... Since the federal parts of the 1935 Act were never implemented, the original Council of States never came about ... Great Britain is not a federation despite the devolved parliaments....

‘Encourage organic farming in villages’

Edit The Hindu 05 Jun 2016

Markandan said although organic farming had been the norm in the past, demands of a burgeoning population and the consequent need to increase the yield led to the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides ... The government, both at the Centre and in the State, should create markets at the taluk level and that could boost natural and organic farming in a big way, Dr....

HC tells bank to pass order dispassionately

Edit The Hindu 05 Jun 2016

The Madras High Court Bench here has directed the Sankarankovil Branch Manager of Indian Overseas Bank in Tirunelveli district to pass a “reasoned and speaking order in a dispassionate and objective fashion” on an application for education loan ... Justice Venugopal directed the bank manager to dispose of petitioner’s 2014 loan ......

Study launched to identify pests that attack trees

Edit The Times of India 05 Jun 2016

Taking note of sudden tree deaths in a few farms, scientists have begun studies to identify pests attacking trees and ways to treat them naturally ... In another incident, in a farm in Thalavady, where they had planted Silver Oaks as a shade tree for tea plantations, a few trees were completely covered in termite mounds ... Scientists say trees are equally at risk during summers, especially when they are farmed in large numbers....

Elephant herd strays into farms, triggers panic in Krishnagiri

Edit The Times of India 05 Jun 2016

A herd of five elephants on Saturday morning strayed into the farms adjacent to Sanamavu Reserve Forests (SRF) in Krishnagiri district, damaging the crops ready for harvest and sending the residents in the locality panicking ... The elephants damaged the crops on farms in and around Sanamavu and Podur Pallam villages....

Obama Commutes Record Number of Sentences for Non-Violent Offenders

Edit Voa News 05 Jun 2016

Top Republicans and Democrats in Congress also support relaxing the sentencing laws that have tripled the federal and state prison populations in the last 30 years, reaching more than 1.56 million inmates at the end of 2014 ... Unlocking Potential However in Congress, the main legislative effort for sentencing changes, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, has failed to pass either chamber of Congress....

Research team makes breakthrough toward fish-free aquaculture feed

Edit Science Daily 05 Jun 2016

Scientists have discovered that marine microalgae can completely replace the wild fish oil currently used to feed tilapia, the second most farmed fish in the world and the most widely farmed in the United States ... ....