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The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which empowers police to make arrests over social media posts, apparently lacked guidelines on when such power can be exercised and that somebody’s “annoyance” was enough in certain cases for invoking the law. “Section 66A does not give any specific guidance […]

Asserting that the purity of Cricket had to be maintained at all cost, the Supreme Court on Monday found it “difficult to accept” N Srinivasan’s argument that he had no conflict of interest even as he owned Chennai Super Kings in the IPL while being at the helm of the BCCI. A bench of Justices

The Delhi High Court on Monday deferred the hearing on two appeals against the recent single bench judgment on nursery admissions guidelines till Tuesday. The court of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw refused to issue any interim stay order on the judgment and said it would hear the matter in detail.

Nearly 40 years after the then Railway minister Lalit Narayan Mishra was killed in a bomb blast at a function in Bihar, four men on Monday were pronounced guilty of his murder. Four persons, including Mishra, were killed and 25 injured in the blast during inauguration of the Samastipur-Muzaffarpur broad gauge line on January 2,

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s high court has ordered the main protest sites that have choked the financial city for more than two months to be cleared, building up to a final showdown between pro-democracy activists and authorities backed by Beijing. A local bus company, which was granted an injunction against street blockades at the site

CAPE TOWN: British-Indian millionaire Shrien Dewani, accused of plotting the murder of his Indo-Swedish bride during their honeymoon here in 2010, was acquitted on Monday as a South African court dismissed the case against him, citing lack of evidence. Judge Jeanette Traverso threw out the high-profile case against 34-year-old Dewani even before he started his

The 32-year-old cabbie, who allegedly raped an executive on Friday night, would not have been behind the wheel of the Uber taxi had the US-based company run a background check and got police verification done as he had earlier been jailed too in a rape case. Meanwhile, the Delhi government has banned with immediate effect

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat High Court on Friday directed social activist Teesta Setalwad, her husband Javed Anand and Zakia Jafri’s son Tanvir along with two other former residents of Gulbarg Society to appear before the investigating officer (IO) every fortnight in an alleged funds embezzlement case. Justice Ashish Desai ordered Setalvad and others to remain present before

Kendriya Vidyalaya students will not have to appear for Sanskrit examination in the current academic session, the government told the Supreme Court on Friday. The court said it as a “good solution” to put an end to the controversy triggered over the decision to immediately replace German with Sanskrit as the third language in Kendriya

A Public Interest Litigation against Shiv Sena joining the Maharashtra government was filed in the Bombay High Court on Friday. The matter will come up for hearing on December 8. The petitioner has asked the court to direct the respondents, including Speaker Haribhau Bagade, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Leader of the Opposition Eknath Shinde