Everything you need to know about Dt.court: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Dt.court: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Washington, June 19 (IANS) US President Barack Obama, currently on a trip to Berlin, Wednesday defended the country's internet surveillance programmes, saying that lives have been saved and threats averted thanks to the monitored information.
Hyderabad, June 19 (IANS) A CBI special court Wednesday adjourned, to June 25 hearing on the agency's petition for judicial custody of former Andhra Pradesh ministers Sabitha Indra Reddy and Dharmana Prasada Rao in the case of alleged disproportionate assets of YSR Congress party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy.
New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday said that the right to life and personal liberty guaranteed under the constitution was available not only to the people of India but also to foreign nationals present on its soil at any given point of time.
Sydney, June 19 (ANI): A British stunt double for actress Angelina Jolie has sued News Corp. for hacking her phone.
London, June 19 (ANI): One of the two footballers accused of having sex with a teenaged prostitute had 'no idea' that she was under age, according to his lawyer.
Islamabad, June 19 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has become a 'clean' man in a 60 million dollars money-laundering case after the Swiss Government refused to re-open the case.
Kolkata, June 18 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court Tuesday asked the West Bengal State Election Commission to include the union home ministry with regard to the panel's ongoing legal battle with the state government on the upcoming panchayat polls.
Rome, June 18 (IANS/AKI) A court in Rome Tuesday sentenced a young Romanian woman to four years in prison on attempted murder charges after she abandoned her newborn baby inside a toilet in a restaurant.
Kochi, June 18 (IANS) The Kerala High Court Tuesday directed that the trial in the SNC Lavalin case, in which CPI-M leader Pinarayi Vijayan is an accused, can go ahead by splitting the charge sheet.
London, June 18 (IANS) Prosecutors in Hungary have charged 98-year-old Laszlo Csatary with participation in Nazi war crimes, a media report said Tuesday.
Melbourne, June 18 (ANI): Pictures of Australian spin legend Shane Warne's luxurious mansion, which has been reportedly put on the market for 15 million dollars, have been revealed to the public.
London, June 18 (ANI): Six teenage footballers and one of the player's fathers have been convicted for attacking a linesman, who was kicked to death following an under-17 game in the Netherlands in December 2012.
Johannesburg, June 18 (ANI): A Libyan court has acquitted two former aides of the late slain leader Muammar Gadaffi over charges related to the 1988 Lockerbie bombing victims' compensation case.
Washington, June 17 (IANS) Siding with the Obama administration, the US Supreme Court Monday tossed out a provision in a Arizona state law requiring proof of citizenship for registration as a voter.
Mumbai, June 17 (IANS) A special court here ordered an accused in the July 2006 Mumbai serial train blasts case to deposit Rs.10,000 if he wanted to visit his ailing mother with an escort, his lawyer said Monday.
New Delhi, June 17 (ANI): A local court sent Rajasthan Royals cricketer Ajit Chandila, accused of spot fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), to police custody for three days on Monday.
London, June 17 (IANS) Indian tennis player Somdev Devvarman was eliminated in the first round of the Wimbledon men's singles qualifiers here Monday.
Mumbai, June 17 (IANS) Pakistani actress Meera wants to sort out issues with "Bhadaas" producer-director Ajay Yadav who had reportedly filed a case of non-cooperation against her when she refused to dub for the psychological thriller. Keen to kiss and make up, she is here for the film's promotion.
London, June 17 (ANI): Lady Gaga is reportedly facing a new 20-million-dollar lawsuit for allegedly stealing another artist's ideas.
London, June 17 (IANS) World No. 2 Andy Murray claimed his third title of the Queen's Club grass court event as he completed his preparation for Wimbledon with victory over Marin Cilic of Croatia here.
Bhubaneswar, June 17 (IANS) A man has been arrested for raping a three-year-old girl in Odisha capital Bhubaneswar after luring her with snacks, police said.
Melbourne, June 17 (ANI): Australia's first tennis court for dogs has been constructed in Logan.
Lima, June 17 (IANS/EFE) As many as 1,180 inmates at Lurigancho prison, Peru's largest, danced and exercised non-stop for three hours to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest group of people taking part in a "full body" aerobics workout routine.
Bangalore, June 16 (IANS) French diplomat Pascal Mazurier, who is on bail in a sexual abuse case, has petitioned the family court here to allow his mother Jacqueline Maille visitation rights to meet his three children staying with his estranged Indian wife Suja Jones.
Los Angeles, June 16 (IANS) Late pop star Michael Jackson's daughter Paris's suicide attempt came after she learned that she does not have the same biological father as her brother Prince.
Los Angeles, June 16 (IANS) Director Chris Stokes has been ordered to give $10,000 for not paying one of the flick's investors of his movie "Battlefield America", which has already turned out to be a damp squib at the box office.
London, June 16 (IANS) World No.2 Andy Murray fought back from a set down to beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France and book a place in the final of the Queen's Club grass court championship here.
Mulhouse (France), June 16 (IANS) Saurav Ghosal fought through the pain barrier to help India become the highest ranked Asian nation at the WSF Men's World Team Squash Championship here while England upset Egypt 2-1 in the final to claim the title.
Beijing, June 16 (IANS) A court in China has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for forging financial documents to get over 10 billion yuan (around $1.6 billion) from banks and companies.
Halle (Germany), June 15 (IANS) World No.3 Roger Federer of Switzerland Saturday avenged his defeat to German Tommy Haas in last year's Gerry Weber Open final.
Jakarta, June 15 (IANS) A dramatic loss to arch-rival Juliane Schenk in the women's singles semifinals saw defending champion Saina Nehwal failing to win her fourth Indonesia Open Super Series Premier crown here Saturday.
Jakarta, June 15 (IANS) Defending champion Saina Nehwal failed to win her fourth Indonesia Open Super Series Premier crown after a dramatic loss to arch-rival Juliane Schenk in the women's singles semifinals here Saturday.
London, June 15 (ANI): Twitter has been urged to reveal the names of some France-based racist users who have posted anti-Semitic messages, following Paris Court's refusal to consider the firm's appeal not to hand over the user IDs.
Islamabad, June 15 (ANI): The anti-terrorist court has indicted former military ruler General (retd.) Pervez Musharraf in the judges' detention case.
London, June 15 (IANS) Top seed Andy Murray entered the semifinals of the Queen's Club grass court championship for the third time defeating Germany's Benjamin Becker here.
Washington, June 15 (ANI): Internet corporation Yahoo had been reportedly forced into furnishing user data to the US-led NSA's Prism programme following court orders in 2008.
London, June 15(ANI): Michael Jackson's ghost has declared that his death was an accident, a court heard.
London, June 15 (ANI): British tennis ace Andy Murray has said that he believed that an early exit from the French Open may have enhanced his preparation for the Wimbledon, which kicks off in ten days' time.
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) A Delhi court has awarded 10-year imprisonment to a woman who ran a brothel here for forcing a minor girl into prostitution.
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday permitted some residents of a dilapidated building in Mumbai's Mazagaon to continue staying in it for next fortnight at their own risk and with no liability to the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai in case of any accident.
Panaji, June 14 (IANS) The Bombay High Court's Goa bench Friday issued notice to the state government, asking it to explain the process of K.D. Row being chosen as chairman of the state public service commission (PSC). .
Islamabad, June 14 (IANS) An alleged Al-Qaeda activist involved in the killing of Chaudhry Zulfiqar, a prosecutor in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, has been arrested in Pakistan, a media report Friday said.
Sydney, June 14 (ANI): A man in Australia has been jailed for at least 16 months for whipping a Muslim convert 40 times as punishment for drinking alcohol and taking drugs because of a contorted belief in sharia.
Mulhouse (France), June 14 (IANS) Harinder Pal Sandhu and Saurav Ghosal played out of their skins to stretch the Egyptian maestros in a hard-fought quarterfinal of the WSF World Team Squash Championship that the Indians lost 0-2 to the top seeds.
San Antonio, June 14 (IANS) Miami 'Big 3' collected as many as 85 points to help the Heat go past San Antonio Spurs 109-93 for a Game 4 victory, drawing the series 2-2 and getting back the home court advantage for the defending champions.
Melbourne, June 14 (ANI): An Australian court has cleared the way for people to identify themselves as the third gender on government documents.
Melbourne, June 14 (ANI): An Australian court has cleared the way for people to identify themselves as the third gender on government documents.
London, June 14 (ANI): Michael Jackson was looking forward do his 'This Is It tour' because he was "desperately broke", a Los Angeles court heard on Wednesday.
Moscow, June 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the Russian authorities must pay over 28,000 euros (around $37,000) to two Russians who took part in an anti-terrorist operation but never received combat allowance.
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) A plea filed by a woman seeking custody of her grandchildren, who are at present living with their paternal grandmother, was turned down by a Delhi court after the minors said they were not desirous of living with her or even meeting her.
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has directed the city police to provide adequate protection to a 21-year-old woman apprehending threat to her life from her parents as she opposed their plan to marry her off against her wishes.
Dubai, June 13 (IANS) Two Indian men have been put on trial for trying to steal power cables worth over 143,000 dirhams (about $38,900) by breaking into an electricity station here.
Moscow, June 13 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Former Russian football star Valery Karpin is being sued for $29.3 million in a Spanish court over a real estate dispute, La Voz de Galicia newspaper reported Thursday.
Mumbai, June 13 (ANI): Rajasthan Royals cricketer, Ankeet Chavan, a spot-fixing accused in the Indian Premier League (IPL) has denied of any wrongdoing.
Manali (Himachal Pradesh), June 13 (ANI): Police submitted here today all documents before a court in the rape case of an American woman and the three accused are in judicial custody.
London, June 13 (ANI): The father of former England footballers Gary and Phil Neville has been reportedly charged with sexually assaulting a woman.
Sydney, June 13 (ANI): A magistrate in Australia has questioned whether a Saudi woman appearing in court should have been allowed to wear a 'full burqa' or face covering.
Washington, June 13 (ANI): NSA snooping programme whistleblower Edward Snowden may have to wait for a long time till his asylum request in Hong Kong is addressed due to recent changes in the law.
Moscow, June 13 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A court in Tunisia has jailed three European activists of the Femen group who staged a topless protest in the country last month.
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday declined to interfere with the Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) order directing 11 cement makers to deposit 10 percent of Rs.6,200 crore penalty imposed on them by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for alleged cartelisation to control cement prices.
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) A 35-year-old man, who worked as a conduit between fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim and people who placed bets on IPL, was arrested by Delhi Police from Mumbai, an official said here Wednesday.
New York, June 12 (ANI): A German bank clerk cost the bank 293 million dollars by accidentally transferring funds while lying on his computer keyboard.
Islamabad, June 12 (ANI): The Military Intelligence (MI) in Pakistan has objected that the Supreme Court and the police had no jurisdiction to proceed against any serving army officer under the Army Act, 1952.
Mulhouse (France), June 12 (IANS) India outclassed Venezuela 3-0 to top pool H and also confirm their progress to the pre-quarterfinals of the WSF Men's World Team Squash Championship.
Rome, June 12 (IANS/AKI) A man in the Italian island of Sicily has been charged with stabbing to death his ex-girlfriend's teenage sister.
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) India fast bowler S.Sreesanth, who was released from Tihar jail Tuesday on bail, said the last 27 days have taught him a lot and retiterated that he was innocent.
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed a petition of Additional Director General of Gujarat Police Puthvipal P. Pandey challenging an arrest warrant issued against him in the 2004 staged shootout killing of Ishrat Jahan and three others.
Dubai, June 11 (IANS) Three Indian men in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been accused of posing as police officers, raiding a house and kidnapping two of its inhabitants for ransom.
Madrid, June 11 (IANS) Spanish tennis ace Rafael Nadal believes he is playing better tennis than anyone in the world right now, but says he is a lot happier to be winning tournaments than to hold the number one ranking.
Islamabad, June 10 (ANI): An ex-serviceman in Pakistan is seeking an order for reassessing the role of secret agencies.
Islamabad, June 11 (ANI): An anti-terrorism court in Quetta has rejected the bail application of former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf in the Akbar Bugti murder case.
Mulhouse (France), June 11 (IANS) India booked their place in the pre-quarterfinal round with a commanding 3-0 win over Finland in their second Pool H match of the WSF men's World Team squash championship here.
New York, June 11 (ANI): Michael Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe could be the legal guardian of Paris if the teenager wants it, but she is reportedly not going to fight Katherine Jackson over her daughter's custody because she has too much respect for the late King of Pop and his mother.
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) An 82-year-old man has been acquitted of the charge of raping his maid by a Delhi court which also directed the government to frame guidelines for regulating placement agencies providing domestic helps so as to curb registration of false cases.
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) Observing that it could not go on "smelling foul" in everything, the Supreme Court Monday asked a petitioner as to what proof he had that pharma major Ranbaxy was marketing in India the alleged adulterated drugs that it sold in the US.
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday stayed a non-bailable warrant against Deputy Election Commissioner Vinod Zutshi issued by a magistrate's court in an alleged illegal leasing of government land in Jaipur to a private company.
Dubai,June 10 (ANI): A British stewardess has been fined 2000 dirhams for calling an Emirati housewife a 'lesbian' in a public place.
London, June 10 (ANI): A Chinese court has sentenced the brother-in-law of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in jail on charges of fraud.
Kolkata, June 9 (IANS) Observing that non-conduct of the panchayat polls would be a disaster, the CPI-M Sunday accused West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress of trying to disrupt the elections to the rural government bodies.
Panaji, June 9 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi took a veiled dig at union Law and Justice Minister Kapil Sibal Sunday, saying he has no knowledge of law, despite being a lawyer and law minister.
Washington, June 9 (ANI): Social media giant Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has denied reports about the US government having access to its servers and insisted that the company has never been part of any such programme to allow the access.
Washington, June 9 (ANI): A former National Security Agency (NSA) official has claimed that the agency's phone data collection of all US Verizon customers is only a 'tip of the iceberg' as the estimates go as high as 20 trillion phone calls and mails by US citizens.
Beijing, June 9 (IANS) China's former railway minister Liu Zhijun stood trial in a court here Sunday on charges of bribery and abuse of power.
London, June 9 (ANI): Spanish tennis ace Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from next week's ATP Halle event, as a part of his grass court preparations for Wimbledon.
Paris, June 8 (IANS) Top seed Serena Williams defeated defending champion Maria Sharapova in straight sets to win her second French Open crown and 16th Grand Slam singles tennis title here Saturday.
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has denied anticipatory bail to a woman's husband and in-laws who allegedly forced her to swallow abortion pills for causing a miscarriage.
Beijing, June 8 (IANS) A 25-year-old man who set fire to a building that killed eight people was Saturday sentenced to death by a court in China.
Panaji, June 8 (IANS) Two days after claiming that building a Ram temple at Ayodhya was not a priority for the BJP, party spokesperson Nirmala Sitaraman Saturday said that the issue was "very close" to the saffron party's heart.
Agartala, June 8 (IANS) A court in Agartala Saturday sent Tripura newspaper editor Sushil Choudhury to two days judicial custody in a triple murder case, an official said.
Singapore, June 8 (IANS) An Indian-origin lawyer and Hindu rights activist in Malaysia has appealed the 30-month jail term given to him by a Kuala Lumpur court in a sedition case.
Washington, June 8 (ANI): Alec Baldwin was all praise for his former wife Kim Basinger, and called her the most beautiful woman who ever lived.
London, June 08 (ANI): Scarlett Johansson is suing another author of a bestselling French novel for featuring a fictional character that resembles her.
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court has said that evidence tendered by a prosecution witness would not get entirely erased merely because the prosecution has chosen to treat him as hostile - someone who has gone back on a statement made earlier.
London, June 8 (ANI): The use of drones by British forces in Afghanistan may be in breach of international law, a controversial legal opinion circulated to peace campaigners has claimed.
Los Angeles, June 8 (IANS) Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan's comeback movie "The Canyons" will have its international premiere at the Venice Film Festival after reportedly being rejected by other film festivals.
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday inquired about the capability of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to lay national highways and if it had ever built a highway on schedule.
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday upheld a trial court's awarding a three-year jail term to a Public Works Department employee for encashing cheques worth Rs.21,000 by forging leave travel documents of three other employees.
Dubai, June 7 (IANS) An Indian man in Bahrain, who broke a car's side rear view mirror in the hope of getting deported to India, has been sentenced to jail for two months.
Hyderabad, June 7 (IANS) The CBI has sought the judicial custody of former Andhra Pradesh ministers Sabitha Indra Reddy and Dharmana Prasada Rao in YSR Congress Party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy's disproportionate assets case.
Washington, June 7 (ANI): A man from Nashville has admitted to fathering 22 kids by 14 women.
