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Letters: Justice Secretary's failure
Published July 9, 2009, 4:17 pm, Independent
Michael Shields (reports, 25 June and 2 July) was convicted in Bulgaria after a grossly unfair trial. It is a tragedy that the Justice Secretary has so far refused to use his power to free this innocent young man.
Case studies: The defendant and the solicitor
Published July 9, 2009, 2:27 pm, Times Online
Atul Nandha, 36, an engineer for Virgin Media, was waiting at Highbury Magistrates’ Court one Friday evening. He was frustrated at delays and inefficiencies. It was his third visit — this time to correct an error. By 5pm he had still not been seen and was told to come back the following Tuesday.
‘Slow-to-Doc’ blast
Published July 9, 2009, 4:08 am, Oldham Chronicle
AN angry mum has blasted Oldham’s out-of-hours health service following a six-hour ordeal to find medication for her poorly daughter.
South Africa: Flames to Remind the ANC of Its Promises
Published July 9, 2009, 3:28 am, AllAfrica.com
Johannesburg — THE riots that wracked Thandukukhanya township in Piet Retief last week highlighted just how out of touch the African National Congress (ANC) leadership is with anger on the ground at councillors who abuse their positions to fund lavish lifestyles rather than serving the people who elected them.
HOME PAGE
Published July 7, 2009, 11:32 am, The Hindu
What triggered the sell-off The Indian stock market was ravaged by a sell-off even as the Finance Minister was still reading out the Union Budget for 2009-10. The Sensex ended the day 870 points or 5.8 per cent lower; the largest Budget-day decline since ...
Why fly when you can take the train?
Published July 7, 2009, 9:18 am, Daily Telegraph
Costcutting measures and ludicrous inefficiency have taken all the pleasure out of flying.
Exemption limit
Published July 6, 2009, 12:05 pm, The Hindu
While senior citizens of both the sexes get a heightened tax exemption limit of Rs 2.4 lakh from the existing Rs 2.25 lakh, the working population has to contend itself with a token increase in the exemption limit by just Rs 10,000 — the exemption limit for non-senior ladies goes up from Rs 1.8 lakh to Rs 1.9 lakh, for non-senior males, the exemption limit goes up from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 1.6 lakh.
OPINION
Published July 6, 2009, 12:02 pm, The Hindu
BUDGET: Union Budget 2009-2010 — No tactics to curb fiscal deficit The Budget presented by the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has left the equity market cold. In fact, the Sensex tanked by 953 points, intra-day.
Hardcore library porn may spark Big Brother ban
Published July 5, 2009, 5:01 pm, Sydney Morning Herald
A Sunshine Coast council may consider a monitoring system for internet users at public libraries after an elderly man was spotted watching hardcore pornography on a library computer.
Library porn: outcry at 'grubby' user
Published July 5, 2009, 4:53 pm, Sydney Morning Herald
Anger after man spotted watching porn on a Sunshine Coast library computer.
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