India Today

It's still a bird in the bush

It is being celebrated by the government as a 'win' for India, but the decision by Emma Arbuthnot, chief magistrate of the Westminster Magistrates' Court, that billionaire fugitive Vijay Mallya can be extradited to India does not mean he will be back to face the music anytime soon. Arbuthnot's order is more a recommendation to the home secretary, Sajid Javid, with whom the power to extradite rests. Mallya can appeal Arbuthnot's decision within two

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from India Today

India Today2 min read
The Right Balance
WITH THE POST-COVID RECOVERY IN FULL SWING, MAINTAINING THE country’s fiscal balance is a must. Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman was justly applauded for not hitting the panic button or taking drastic fiscal management measures during the pa
India Today2 min read
Gowda Knows
If you’re a Sherlock Holmes fan, you’ll remember the passage from ‘The Greek Interpreter’ where Sherlock describes his elder brother Mycroft—supposedly, a greater deductive mind. But the man had “no ambition and no energy” to follow up on the leads h
India Today5 min read
Shah At Home
TWO DAYS BEFORE AMIT SHAH FILED HIS NOMINATION PAPERS FROM GANDHINAGAR—a seat the Union home minister first won in 2019, with a margin of 557,000-plus votes—he visited 30 voters for whom he is the designated panna pramukh. A panna is a page in the el

Related Books & Audiobooks