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LONDON: The abortion debate has returned to haunt Northern Ireland with the Human Rights Commission of the country taking the government to court on Wednesday challenging the near-blanket ban on the procedure. The commission announced it would take the government in Belfast to the high court over its refusal to reform the abortion law. The […]

MUMBAI: Maharashtra government is expected to tell the Bombay High Court on Thursday of its stand on the use of the word ‘Sindhu’ instead of ‘Sindh’ in the national anthem in text-books. On December 4, a division bench of Justice Anoop Mohta and Justice Nitin Jamdar asked the state to reply whether it is following

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismisses pleas for interim stay on its single judge verdict quashing points for nursery admission in private schools. Chief justice G Rohini and Justice RS Endlaw dismissed the petitions for stay and they will hear the main pleas challenging the single bench order from January. The city government had

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Opposition leader Imran Khan has been booked under terrorism act for allegedly inciting violence against Punjab’s former law minister RanaSanaullah during a rally in Faisalabad. The case was registered yesterday after Sanaullah said that Imran and other people incited the attack at his place after a person was killed in clashes during the

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