Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak left a military hospital today where he had spent much of his six-year detention, his lawyer said.
Madras High Court today declined a prayer for an urgent hearing of Habeas Corpus petitions which alleged illegal detention of 130-odd ruling AIADMK MLAs after the Tamil Nadu government said the legislators were staying at the MLAs' Hostel and "free to move around".
First the contempt petitions, then the freezing of assets and now a detention plea – on Friday, SEBI fired another salvo in its efforts to get the Sahara Group to comply with the August 31st Supreme Court order.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday found Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani guilty of contempt of court for refusing to reopen corruption cases against the president, but gave him only a symbolic sentence of a few minutes' detention in the courtroom.
External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Friday talked tough on the Shah Rukh Khan detention case at a New York aiport, saying that such incidents could not continue anymore. "It has become a habit these days to first detain and then apologise. This can't continue," said Krishna, who is in Moscow currently.
Refusing to take the detention of Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan in the US seriously, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said that it happened "all the time and to all sorts of people".
Senior BJP leader L K Advani today said he was not surprised at the detention of Anna Hazare and charged the government with looking for scapegoats and stopping peaceful protests instead of fighting corruption.