Back log of cases: India has to suffer the scourge of the world's largest backlog of cases. Over three crore cases. Historical Facts Burke and Hare / A Perfectly Ordinary Little Case Not naughty Enough / A Georgian Gender Bender Boiling to Death / Fingers of fate / The Law West Of The...
on federal corruption charges on January 22, 2015 in New York City. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who has served as speaker for more than two decades, is accused in court documents of using the power of his office to solicit millions in bribes and kickbacks....
The city of Cape Town had its origin in 1652, when theDutch East India Companyestablished a refreshment station for its ships on the shores ofTable Bay. The location was magnificent, on well-watered, fertile soil, beneath the precipitous walls of Table Mountain. Theindigenousinhabitants provided...
in large numbers. They were joined in the 1830s and ’40s by some 120,000 men, women, and children who sought to escape the harsh conditions of industrial England. Their passages were in many cases paid from a fund resulting from the decision of the British government in 1831 to sell...