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Raipur, Dec 25 (IANS) The arrest of two tribals, Soni Sori and Lingaram Kodopi, in Chhattisgarh for alleged acting as Maoist conduits raises the larger question: Were they really Maoist activists or paying the price for raising their voice against rights abuses by security forces? While activist-cum-journalist Kodopi, 25, was arrested in September, Soni Sori, 36, a tribal teacher and [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Three years after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Saturday filed charges against seven Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, including Pakistani-American David Headley, and two alleged ISI officials for their role in the carnage. The charge sheet, which also names Lashkar founder Haafiz Sayeed, was filed in a special NIA court here. The [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) A Delhi court Saturday ordered websites like Facebook, Google and Yahoo to remove all ‘derogatory’ content from their sites by Feb 6, or face contempt charges. Administrative civil judge Mukesh Kumar ordered all the websites to file a compliance report by Feb 6, affirming that they have removed the derogatory content from their sites. If [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) A Delhi court Saturday ordered websites like Facebook, Google and Yahoo to remove all ‘derogatory’ content from their sites by Feb 6. The court ordered all the websites to file a compliance report by Feb 6, stating they have removed the derogatory content from their sites. If they fail, the websites will face contempt charges, [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) A Delhi court Saturday ordered websites like Facebook, Google and Yahoo to remove all ‘derogatory’ content from their sites by Feb 6. The court ordered all the websites to file a compliance report by Feb 6, stating they have removed the derogatory content from their sites. The order said the websites will face contempt charges [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) A Delhi court Saturday ordered websites like Facebook, Google and Yahoo to remove all ‘derogatory’ content by Feb 6.
Bhubaneswar, Dec 24 (IANS) The Orissa High Court has dismissed a petition filed by a man seeking cancellation of the 99th Indian Science Congress (ISC), the largest national science event, to be held here next month, or shifting of its venue, a lawyer said Saturday. Quashing the petition filed by Manoj Das as ‘frivolous’, Justice B.P. Das and Justice B.K. [...]
Minsk, Dec 24 (IANS) Belarus will abolish the death penalty as soon as the US abolishes it, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said. A court in the capital Minsk sentenced Nov 30 two men to death for carrying out a bomb attack that killed 15 people and injured 200 in the Minsk metro. Belarus is the only European country still [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) A Delhi court allowed bail to an accused after observing that the complainant, Jai Kishan, MLA of Sultanpuri, is a habitual offender and involved in nine criminal cases. Granting bail to accused Om Prakash, Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau said: ?No doubt, the allegations made against the accused if proved are serious but misuse and [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to the Department of Personnel Training (DOPT) on a plea seeking its direction on whether the Central Information Commission (CIC) was legally empowered to prosecute an entity or a person for the offence of perjury if false documents are filed before the commission. A Delhi-based lawyer, Shanmuga Patro [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Days after a civil court asked various websites to remove objectionable content, a Delhi court Friday issued summons to 21 websites and social networking sites including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and YouTube for allegedly hosting obscene and derogatory content. Taking cognizance of the case on a private criminal complaint filed by journalist Vinay Rai, Metropolitan Magistrate [...]
Mumbai, Dec 23 (IANS) ‘How is the country’s interest involved’, the Bombay High Court asked sharply to Team Anna while rejecting their petition for a concession in the charges to hire the MMRDA grounds here for Anna Hazare’s agitation from Dec 27 on the ground that the protest is in national interest. ‘We are afraid that such issues cannot be [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Former communications minister A. Raja’s counsel Friday termed his ex-aide Aseevatham Achary untruthful, saying that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had created him as a false witness to influence the course of the trial in the 2G case. ‘He is a created false witness and this is my ultimate case,? Raja’s counsel and senior [...]
Mumbai, Dec 23 (IANS) Anna Hazare flayed the demand for concession as ‘improper’, but his activist supporters nevertheless managed to get the MMRDA ground here at low rates from the state government for their agitation there from Dec 27 after the Bombay High Court declined to grant any waiver in the rent. The Bombay High Court Friday refused to grant [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) There is a need to promote understanding and inclusion of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in society, said experts and human rights activists here Friday. ‘All of us have biases and these can’t really be removed, so creating acceptance is the better objective than trying to remove everyone’s biases,’ Pramada Menon, a [...]
Mumbai, Dec 23 (IANS) The Bombay High Court Friday allowed Team Anna to hold its proposed agitation at the MMRDA Grounds in suburban Bandra-Kurla Complex at concessional rates, entailing savings of nearly Rs.450,000, an India Against Corruption (IAC) official said here. IAC member Mayank Gandhi said that following the court?s order, the IAC would now re-apply through another registered organization [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Former communications minister A. Raja’s counsel Friday termed his ex-aide Aseevatham Achary untruthful, saying he was trying to influence the course of the trial in the 2G case. Achary, a key witness in the case, had Thursday said in the special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court that there was a threat to his life. [...]
Beijing, Dec 23 (IANS) Over 43,000 government officials in China have been investigated this year in cases related to abuse of official power, according to latest figures. Chinese prosecutors from January to November launched investigations into a total of 31,616 criminal cases involving 43,265 such suspects, Xinhua reported citing the figures provided at a national meeting of procurators. Prosecutors across [...]
Mumbai, Dec 22 (IANS) Facing the ire of the Bombay High Court, the Maharashtra government Thursday assured that it would attempt to amicably remove Dalit activists who have encroached a National Textiles Corporation mill premises here since the past nearly three weeks. Indu Mills’ 12.5 acres premises in central Mumbai is located adjacent to Chaityabhoomi where Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar’s [...]
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Residents of south Delhi’s Jangpura neighbourhood Thursday told the Delhi High Court that the Delhi Wakf Board and a charitable society failed to comply with the court’s earlier order which allowed only 10 devotees to offer prayer at the site of a mosque razed by the Delhi Development Authority in January. The board and Noor [...]
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