Minister of State for Communication and IT, Milind Deora accepted misuse of the Information Technology (IT) Act and said that the government is open to making the law more objective to prevent further misuse in future. ...
07:40 AM, Dec 01, 2012
Watch today's top stories with CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai. ...
11:17 PM, Nov 30, 2012
The SC asks Maharashtra to explain the FB arrests, but the Centre maintains there is no need to scrap the IT law. ...
10:41 PM, Nov 30, 2012
The SC issued notices to the Maharashtra government and other concerned states on why Section 66(A) should not be scrapped. ...
09:35 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Delhi University student Shreya Singhal, who has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court challenging the Information Technology Act, has said that she filed the petition because she felt very strongly about the issue and felt outraged over the recent cases where arrests were made over Facebook posts. ...
06:42 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Cyber law expert Pawan Duggal has hailed the Supreme Court's intervention in the Palghar Facebook arrests case. ...
05:53 PM, Nov 30, 2012
An 84-year-old man was arrested in Rajasthan's Sikar district, 38 years after he illegally came to India from Pakistan and settled down under a disguise, police said on Tuesday. ...
12:29 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday defended the suspension of two police officers over the arrest of two girls for their posts on Facebook regarding the bandh observed for Bal Thackeray's funeral. ...
10:20 PM, Nov 27, 2012
A week after two girls were arrested in Palghar for their remarks on Bal Thackerey's death, the state administration has finally taken some action. ...
09:05 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Shiv Sena unit of Palghar has called for bandh on Wednesday in favour of police officials who were suspended a week after two girls in Thane district of Maharashtra were arrested over a Facebook post criticising the Mumbai bandh for the funeral of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray. The Superintendent of Police of the Thane district and a sub-inspector of Palghar police station were suspended on Tuesday, but charges against...
07:23 PM, Nov 27, 2012
A week after two girls in Thane district of Maharashtra were arrested over a Facebook post criticising the Mumbai bandh for the funeral of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray, the state administration has finally taken some action. In a major step, the Superintendent of Police of the Thane district and a sub-inspector of Palghar police station were suspended on Tuesday, but charges against the girls were not dropped. ...
06:37 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Monday said there was no difference of opinion between him and Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan over action to be taken against police officials who arrested two girls for their Facebook comments on the Shiv Sena last week. ...
07:41 PM, Nov 26, 2012
A 23-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping a two-year-old girl in his neighbourhood in the city, said police on Sunday. Vijender lured the girl to his house on the pretext of playing with her. ...
12:49 AM, Nov 26, 2012
In this week's episode of The Week That Wasn't, Cyrus Broacha also talks about the film 'Life of Pi', Facebook post arrests and much more. ...
11:43 PM, Nov 24, 2012
The girl who was arrested for posting a Facebook comment criticising the Mumbai shutdown over Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's death, has said that she stands by her post. ...
10:59 AM, Nov 24, 2012
Mumbai: The girl behind the Facebook post on Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray finally spoke up for herself on Friday, saying that she did not regret what she wrote but added that what followed afterwards should not have happened. She was joined by her father who said that the family received immense support from the media and were thankful to it. "We say we are free, but in many ways,...
07:40 AM, Nov 24, 2012
Mumbai: The Inspector General Konkan Range on Friday submitted his investigation report into the arrest of two Thane girls over a Facebook post criticising a bandh in Mumbai for the funeral of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray. In his report, the IG said that the arrest of the girls by the police was unjustified. The probe report also recommended action against the police officials involved in the arrest of the...
07:18 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Mumbai: The police investigation report in connection with the arrest of two girls over a controversial Facebook post on Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray is likely to be submitted to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Friday. The two girls from Palghar were arrested after one of them posted a new status on her Facebook account denouncing the Mumbai shutdown after Thackeray's death and the other 'liked' it. The media...
10:25 AM, Nov 23, 2012
Idukki: The dawn-to-dusk hartal called by CPM in Idukki to protest arrest of party leader M M Mani for his refusal to turn up for a polygraph test in connection with a case registered in the wake of his controversial speech, hit normal life in the high range district on Thursday. Mani was arrested and remanded to judicial custody on Wednesday for rejecting the police notice to undergo brain mapping...
03:21 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Hyderabad: A principal of a primary school at Fatehnagar here was on Thursday arrested on allegations of corporal punishment meted out to a five-year old student, police said. Following a complaint by the mother of the LKG student, principal Mumtaz Ahmed who also runs the school, was arrested. Ahmed allegedly hit the boy with a stick resulting in bruises on his back as a punishment for reportedly not attending the...
02:36 PM, Nov 22, 2012
