Congress MLA from Ongole District Balineni Srinivasa Reddy, who belongs to YSRC camp was arrested today in Ongole when he raised protests for placing the portrait of former CM YSR at the Rachabanda programme in Ongole. There was a scuffle between MP Magunta and Balineni and the police swung into action and rounded up the [...]
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) A court Thursday permitted the deletion of Google and YouTube from a list of websites sought to be prosecuted for allegedly posting objectionable content on their sites. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh passed the order after petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi’s counsel Santosh Pandey said he had no objection to the [...]
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) A Delhi court Wednesday allowed US-based Internet giant Yahoo Inc’s application to remove its name from the list of parties allegedly involved in displaying objectionable content on their websites and directed the petitioner to revise his complaint. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh accepted Yahoo’s plea and told petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad [...]
Mumbai, April 13 (IANS) The interim report of a two-member commission probing the Adarsh Housing Society scam in Mumbai was submitted to the Maharashtra government Friday, official sources said. The report by the commission, comprising Justice (retd.) J.A. Patil and former state chief secretary P. Subrahmanyam, was submitted here in a sealed envelop to the chief [...]
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday reserved its order on a plea filed by the Delhi government against a single judge’s order restraining it from issuing a notification for next month’s Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) elections. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Shah Endlaw [...]
Guwahati, Feb 25 (IANS) Alleging presence of names of illegal migrants in the Assam voters’ list, Assam Public Works (APW), an NGO, has sought the Supreme Court’s intervention in the matter.Abhijeet Sharma, secretary of the APW, has moved a writ petition (civil) in the Supreme Court and appealed to the apex court for directing the Government [...]
Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court Friday banned the entry of devotees to the ‘Garbha Griha’ (sanctum sanctorum) of Kalighat Kali Temple, saying the large number of visits was defacing the shrine. A division bench of Chief Justice J.N. Patel and Justice Sambuddha Chakrabarti, however, allowed any two priests on a day to enter [...]
Mumbai, April 12 (IANS) The interim report of the two-member commission probing the Adarsh Society scam, related to the housing society originally meant for war heroes and Kargil widows, is likely to be submitted to the Maharashtra government Friday, officials said. However, it was not clear when or whether it would be tabled before the state [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, March 18 (IANS) A Kerala subinspector of police has been arrested for allegedly sending out a forged letter to the media saying the government wanted 268 e-mail IDs snooped upon, police said Sunday.Biju Salim, who was with the High-Tech cell of Kerala police, was first suspended in January and since then investigations were on. Police [...]
Beijing, April 6 (IANS) The Chinese police have published a list of six terrorists and decided to freeze their funds and assets in the first move of its kind since an anti-terror law legally defining terrorists was adopted last year. The six were all core members of the terrorist group “East Turkistan Islamic Movement”, according to [...]