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Delhi Court directs: Book corporation staffer who duped government of Rs. 1 Crore

04 May 2019
May 4, 2019:   The Delhi government was defrauded of Rs 1 crore allegedly by a corporation official, who returned the money and was suspended. But a Delhi court took a serious note of the inv...
 

Delhi: ‘Kissing on bike’ video goes viral cops call for action against couple

04 May 2019
May 4, 2019: For this couple, love was in the air. But they also had scant regard for traffic rules. The couple was caught kissing on a moving bike on a crowded arterial road in west Delhi in an act...
 

Azhar's listing watershed moment in fight against terror: French envoy

04 May 2019
May 4, 2019: The listing of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN Security Council (UNSC) is a "watershed moment" in the fight against terror and has "concrete con...
 

Harassment complaint against JNU prof: HC seeks police report

04 May 2019
May 4, 2019: The Delhi High Court Friday sought to know Delhi Police’s stand on the delay in filing their final report against Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) professor Atul Johri, against whom eig...
 

Court dismisses Michel’s allegations that ED leaked chargesheet to media

04 May 2019
May 4, 2019: A Delhi special court on Friday refused to order a probe into AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case accused Christian Michel’s allegations that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had “politicis...
 

Bail for SC staffer held for posting wrong info on court website

04 May 2019
May 4, 2019: A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to sacked Supreme Court assistant registrar Tapan Chakraborty, who was arrested in connection with an alleged tampering with an order of the Supreme...
 

HC declares orders providing for free housing & other facilities to Former CM's "Illegal & Unconstitutional", ask them to pay rent of Rs 2.8 Crore

03 May 2019
May 4, 2019: On Friday, Uttarakhand HC declared all the orders passed by State Government from 2001 till date providing free housing and other facilities for life to former chief ministers “illegal a...
 

Know how "Two Instagram" pictures led to filing of Copyright Infringement suit against Versace?

03 May 2019
May 3, 2019: Robert Barbera, a photo-journalist from New York, filed a case of copyright infringement against the very famous Italian brand Versace. The plaintiff alleged that the Defendants used 2...
 

Know everything about the mechanism in place to handle allegations of misconduct against Judges of SC & HCs, Read Text

03 May 2019
May 3, 2019: The Apex court recently constituted two inquiries to deal with the situation following the complaint by an Ex. Employee against the CJI.A three-judge Bench, passing orders on a matter co...
 

Supreme Court to EC: Can polling start from 4.30am due to Ramzan?

03 May 2019
May 3 , 2019 ; NEW DELHI: In what could yield the fastest decision on a poll related PIL, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Election Commission to take a decision on a plea for advancing the...
 

Amrapali CMD, directors used homebuyers’ money for wedding, homes , jewellery, cars

03 May 2019
May 3 , 2019 ; NEW DELHI: Detailing how Amrapali CMD Anil Sharma and other directors ran the real estate company as a personal fiefdom, forensic auditors told the Supreme Court that homebuyers’ money...
 

Supreme Court asks ex-IPS Officer; contesting Lok Sabha election as BJP candidate to appear for 'extortion case' probe

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Friday, the Supreme Court ordered former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh to appear for questioning before the West Bengal CID on May 14, two days after polling takes place in Ghatal Lok Sa...
 

"Will launch payment services only after complying with RBI norms", WhatsApp assures Supreme Court

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Friday, WhatsApp has assured the Supreme Court of India that it will abide by the norms of Reserve Bank of India before launching its payment service in the country in its entirety.T...
 

Justice Sikri will look into the dismal performance in Civil Judges Examination [Read Order]

03 May 2019
May 3, 2019: Supreme Court has appointed Justice Sikri to look into the dismal performance of candidates who appeared in the written examination conducted for recruiting the judicial officers at the...
 

HC tells Johnson & Johnson For now, pay Rs 25 lakh each in 4 faulty hip implant cases

03 May 2019
May 3 , 2019 ; The Delhi High Court Thursday directed pharma major Johnson and Johnson (J&J) to make interim payment of Rs 25 lakh each to four patients who had undergone revision surgeries aft...
 

JNU Sexual Harassment Case: HC issues notice to Police in petition seeking speedy filing of charge-sheet against accused Professor

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Friday, the Delhi High Court issued notice to Delhi Police on a petition seeking direction to file the charge-sheet in a sexual harassment case against Jawaharlal Nehru University Pr...
 

US Pharma firm head; Indian-origin man found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe addictive painkillers

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Friday, a 76-year-old Indian-origin head of a US pharmaceutical major has become the first top executive of a drug-maker to be convicted of bribing doctors in America to prescribe ad...
 

Ahmadabad Police bans recreational acts in public for two weeks under powers vested by "Gujarat Police Act". Know Reason

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: Singing, playing instruments and mimicry among certain acts in public that may result in “toppling the state” or violation of security have been prohibited by the Ahmedabad police commi...
 

Singapore jails Indian man for bribing pest control workers to seek notification of inspection of his workplace

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Friday, an Indian construction site manager in Singapore has been jailed for six weeks for bribing two pest control company workers to notify him in advance of mosquito breeding insp...
 

Is memory card a document? SC stays sexual harassment trial against this popular actor to figure it out first

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Friday, the Supreme Court stayed the trial in the sexual assault case of an actress, in which popular Malayalam actor Dileep is an accused.The trial will remain stayed until the conc...
 

To say the emperor has no clothes is not defamation: Bombay HC boosts free speech

03 May 2019
May 3, 2019: Bombay High Court judge Justice Gautam Patel, famous for his sarcastic and hard-hitting orders, was at his wittiest best while passing an interim order in a defamation suit filed by Lodh...
 

This is BIG. The BIG 4 global accounting giants barred from practicing law in India under "Advocates Act"

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Friday, Demanding list of all the advocates representing these companies in courts, the Bar Council of Delhi has asked four giant accounting firms - KPMG, Price Water House Coopers,...
 

Zakir Naik got Rs 193 crore as donation, used it to incite terror acts: ED to special court

03 May 2019
May 3 , 2019 ; Islamic preacher Zakir Naik had received over Rs 193 crore as donations which were used to “convert people to Islam” and to incite them “to commit terrorist activities”, the Enforcemen...
 

UK: Indian-origin man cons 6 women via online-dating; dupes them of 6 lakh pounds; gets 6 yrs jail

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Friday, an Indian-origin man, who used romance to con six women after meeting them online, has been jailed for six years and one month following a five-year investigation into his ac...
 

Supreme Court to hear DMK's petition seeking disqualification of 3 AIADMK MLA's on May 06

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a plea by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party against the notice of Tamil Nadu Assembly speaker disqualifying the three All India Anna Drav...
 

Kim Jong-Nam Murder Mystery: Second & last suspect gets freed from Malaysian prison

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Friday, a Vietnamese woman, who was the second accused in the 2017 assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was freed from a Malaysian pris...
 

Trespassing: Sri Lankan Police arrests Indian Photo-Journalist covering aftermath of Easter Sunday terror attack

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Friday, an India-based photo journalist, who was in Sri Lanka to cover the aftermath of Easter Sunday bombings, was arrested by Sri Lankan police for alleged unauthorized entry into...
 

Odisha: Cyclone Fani closes in, 7 lakh evacuated

03 May 2019
May 3, 2019: An estimated seven lakh people have been evacuated from coastal areas as Odisha braces for the “extremely severe” cyclonic storm Fani, which is set for landfall on Friday, according to...
 

I-T department probes Bangalore auto driver who owns Rs 1.6-crore villa

03 May 2019
May 3, 2019:   The Income-Tax department is looking into the income sources of a Bangalore auto-rickshaw driver who now lives in a Rs 1.6 crore-villa in an elite gated society in Whitefield....
 

Karti Chidambaram's petition to take abroad trips deferred till next week by Supreme Court

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Friday, the Supreme Court said that it will hear former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's son Karti's petition to travel abroad, next week.The development comes after a Special Court...
 

"Protected many people", WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange says to UK Court stating his unwillingness to extradition to US

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Thursday, WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange told a London Court his work had protected “many people” and refused to agree to be extradited to the United States to face trial for one o...
 

Another brab view on Burqa Ban row; Javed Akhtar says "ban veil too under any law banning burqa"

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Thursday, Bollywood lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar has said if a law is passed to ban the burqa then it should also put a stop on the veil worn by women in Rajasthan.The comm...
 

Supreme Court to look into plea on Rahul citizenship issue

03 May 2019
May 3, 2019: The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would look into a request to urgently hear a plea seeking a direction to the Centre and Election Commission “to debar” Congress president Rahul Gand...
 

PepsiCo pulls back. Company withdraws lawsuit filed against Gujarat farmers over "patent-infringement"

03 May 2019
May 03, 2019: On Friday, Snacks and beverages maker PepsiCo India Holdings Pvt Ltd has decided to withdraw lawsuits it had filed against nine Gujarat farmers for allegedly growing a potato variety ow...
 
 

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