San Francisco: A Google engineer, testifying in a high-stakes trial pitting Oracle Corp against Google Inc, denied that he referred to Oracle or any other company when he wrote in an email that Google should take a license to use the Java programming language. The trial entered its fourth day on Thursday, with Google engineer Timothy Lindholm taking the stand to answer questions about a 2010 email that has become...
12:59 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Monday stressed on the need to train law students in international laws, saying it would help India stand in "good stead" and hoped senior judges will prove to be the best guides for the new breed of lawyers. Addressing a gathering at the release of selected speeches and writings of former Chief Justice of India, Justice PN Bhagwati, he said India has "in a...
03:24 AM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: Batting for Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's proposal to tax Vodafone type deals, the World Bank president Robert Zoellick on Friday said that India wants the company should pay tax at some place and investors must give some time to the Government to explain the details. "The Indian Government is sensitive that they want to have an environment that draw both domestic and foreign investment and so I hope...
09:45 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Cabinet clears new marriage laws, tonight at 10 pm CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, does making divorce easier benefit women?
12:18 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Willful denial of sex, including that on the first night after wedding, by either of the spouse amounts to cruelty and can be a ground for dissolution of the marriage, the Delhi High Court has ruled. Justice Kailash Gambhir gave the verdict, upholding the lower court's decree of divorce to a man having a "sex-starved marriage" as his wife refused to have sexual intercourse with him on the...
09:24 PM, Mar 24, 2012
New Delhi: A Bill seeking to give a woman a share in her husband's property was approved by the Union Cabinet on Friday. Apart from giving women the right to their husband's property, the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, also aims at giving rights to adopted children on par with biological off-springs. The cabinet meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, was introduced...
10:31 PM, Mar 23, 2012
The UPA government will now bring the Bill after a break in Budget session only after it is able to evolve consensus on the contentious aspects of the Bill. ...
09:59 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Central government on Friday took some major decisions with regard to the Hindu Marriage Act, including making divorce easier, in a key Cabinet meeting. According to the decision of the Cabinet, the mandatory six-month clause for filing of divorce will now be waived off on grounds of irretrievable breakdown. The new clause also allows one-time settlement instead of monthly maintenance in case of divorce. The redrafted Marriage...
07:28 PM, Mar 23, 2012
SC's rejection of the plea to review Vodafone judgement has made the announcement to amend the I-T act even more controversial. ...
09:35 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Kolkata: With her government facing flak on farmer's suicides, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed a law framed by the previous Left Front government under which a farmer would lose his land if he failed to pay his debts. "In 2006 the West Bengal government had formed a law - West Bengal Cooperatives Societies Act, 2005 - which stated that if a farmer fails to repay loans...
04:14 AM, Mar 13, 2012
San Francisco: Yahoo Inc sued Facebook Inc on Monday over 10 patents that include methods and systems for advertising on the Web, according to a copy of the lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in a San Jose, California federal court, marks the first major legal battle among technology giants in social media and a major escalation of patent litigation that has already swept up the smartphone and tablet sectors and high-tech...
02:39 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Berlin: A German court has dismissed patent lawsuits by technology giants Apple and Samsung against each other in the two companies' battle over the market for smartphones and tablet devices. Mannheim state court spokesman Joachim Bock said judges dismissed both cases involving alleged patent infringements of the companies' respective slide-to-lock technology on mobile devices. Samsung Electronics welcomed Friday's dismissal of Apple's case against the firm, but vowed to appeal the...
10:49 AM, Mar 03, 2012
San Francisco: A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month. The planned revisions would enable Google Inc. to bundle the personal information gathered by its Internet search engine and other services, such as Gmail, YouTube and Plus, so the company can gain a better understanding of its users and potentially sell more...
11:47 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Taipei: Taiwan computer maker Acer Inc has sued its former chief executive, Gianfranco Lanci, saying he breached a non-compete clause in an agreement covering his departure from the company in 2011. Lanci left Acer abruptly at the end of March last year after a disagreement with other board members over the strategy needed to counter the runaway success of the tablet market, which has cannibalized Acer's profits. He joined rival...
12:19 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday wanted the legislature to redefine the offence of rape while sentencing a youngster to 10 years in jail for assaulting an 80-year-old woman in 2011. "This case sounds a wake-up call for Indian legislators to step in and think about having a re-look at the definition of rape so as to specifically include the instances of digital rape/male rape and make the offence...
10:20 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI is learnt to have favoured amendments to the existing laws than having a new measure to deal with graft cases involving foreign public officials and officials of public international organisations. CBI Director AP Singh who appeared before a Parliamentary panel on Tuesday is understood to have told the panel that the agency preferred amendments to the Prevention of Corruption Act to deal with such cases. Several...
04:31 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Act of 17 July 1992 no 100 relating to Child Welfare Services(the Child Welfare Act) As subsequently amended, most recently by Act of 19 June 2009 No. 45. This version includes the amendments which came into force 1 January 2010. Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion CONTENTS: The Act relating to Child Welfare Services (the Child Welfare Act). Chapter 1. Purpose and scope of the Act. Section 1-1. Purpose...
01:53 PM, Jan 24, 2012
San Francisco: In the summer of 2007, Apple's Steve Jobs received a note from then-Palm chief executive Ed Colligan, according to correspondence revealed in a lawsuit over employee poaching. "Your proposal that we agree that neither company will hire the other's employees, regardless of the individual's desires, is not only wrong, it is likely illegal," Colligan wrote to the now-deceased Apple chief. The note was made public in a court...
12:07 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Wikipedia Co-founder Jimmy Wales says that the Stop Online Piracy Act is not needed - not in the US atleast. ...
01:57 PM, Jan 18, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Commerce Secretary Zafar Mahmood has said that the government will not grant Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India unless a mechanism is evolved to protect domestic industry. "We are making sure that we will safeguard our industry first by consulting all stakeholders, including all chambers of commerce and other trade associations, before we grant MFN status (to India) and there is no international pressure in this regard,"...
09:02 PM, Dec 22, 2011
