San Francisco: Two tech titans will square off in federal court Monday in a closely watched trial over control of the US smart phone and computer tablet markets. Apple Inc filed a lawsuit against South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co last year alleging the world's largest technology company's smart phones and computer tablets are illegal knockoffs of its popular iPhone and iPad products. The Cupertino, California-based company is demanding $2.5 billion...
11:29 PM, Jul 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Environment Ministry has landed in a soup. An RTI query filed by CNN-IBN has revealed that the ministry approved the West Bengal government's controversial decision to capture a herd of wild elephants and force them into captivity, a practice that is banned under wildlife laws. The RTI application showed that the Environment Ministry gave the go ahead for the capture of four wild elephants that had been...
07:35 AM, Jul 28, 2012
Lawson will assist the Afghanistan team as consultant during the Under-19 Cricket WC in Queensland August 11-26. ...
02:32 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Los Angeles: John Travolta has landed into another legal problem after an author who wrote a book about the Hollywood star's alleged gay encounters has filed a libel case against him. Robert Randolph insists that the star and his attorney discredited him by falsely claiming the writer had mental issues, reports thesun.co.uk. The claims were swiftly dismissed by Travolta as 'absurd' and 'meritless'. The author says that comments made by...
11:47 AM, Jun 23, 2012
California: An Illinois woman has filed a $5 million lawsuit against LinkedIn Corp, saying the social network violated promises to consumers by not having better security in place when more than 6 million customer passwords were stolen. The lawsuit, which was brought in federal court in San Jose, California, on June 15 and seeks class-action status, was filed less than two weeks after the stolen passwords turned up on websites...
11:58 AM, Jun 21, 2012
New York: Apple Inc must defend against a lawsuit accusing it of letting advertisers secretly track the activity of millions of mobile device users, a federal judge ruled, but Google Inc and several other defendants were dismissed from the case. Owners of iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches may pursue claims against Apple under two California consumer protection laws, US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, said in a...
11:13 AM, Jun 14, 2012
Delhi High Court has ruled that a Muslim girl can marry as per her choice at the age of 15 years if she has attained puberty. ...
11:30 PM, Jun 07, 2012
Atlanta: A group of automobile dealers in the US has filed a lawsuit against Mahindra & Mahindra, accusing it of fraud, misrepresentation and conspiracy, which the Indian firm has denied. According to Michael Diaz, managing partner of Diaz Reus & Targ, the lawfirm that is representing various dealers, the lawsuit alleges that "Mahindra duped hundreds of US auto dealers and walked away with more than $60 million in cash and...
07:13 PM, Jun 06, 2012
Ankara: Thousands of demonstrators on Monday staged the largest protest yet against plans by Turkey's Islamic-rooted government to curb abortion, which critics say will amount to a virtual ban. Around 3,000 women, their ages ranging from 20 to 60 years old, gathered at a square in Istanbul's Kadikoy district carrying banners that read "my body, my choice," while shouting anti-government slogans. Many were accompanied by husbands and boyfriends. One man...
11:00 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev The Man: The founder of Isha Foundation loves his motorbikes, is as comfortable in jeans as in yogic garbs, and competes with businessmen on the golf course. His methods for self transformation are drawn from tradition. A regular speaker at the annual World Economic Forum at Davos. He says that businesses need to be governed by a simple set of rules where everyone knows what can be...
11:29 AM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Amid the opposition demand to make divorce more women-friendly, the government on Thursday approved fresh amendments in a bill pending in Rajya Sabha to give the wife a clearly defined share in husband's immovable residential property. A meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, took up new amendments to the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill introduced in the Rajya Sabha earlier this month. The government...
09:59 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: The much delayed Bill, providing for certain important amendments to the Copyright Act, was on Thursday approved by the Rajya Sabha to remove operational difficulties and address newer issues related to the digital world and internet. The Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010, moved by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, also seeks to bring Indian laws originally enacted in 1957 in conformity with international norms and World Intellectual Property Organisation. Replying...
09:07 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is expected to reply on Tuesday to various proposals in his 2012-13 budget. The Finance Minister will be seeking Parliament's approval to move the Finance Bill and is likely to relook at some of the controversial proposals, such as changes in the tax laws that would impact Vodafone and the implementation of the General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR). Sources point out that a major rollback...
07:14 AM, May 08, 2012
Helsinki: Wounded cellphone maker Nokia has turned on one of its former allies in the patent protection battlefield by filing lawsuits against rival smartphone maker HTC as it steps up its efforts to raise funds. Nokia, based in Finland, filed several lawsuits in Germany covering 45 hardware and software patents, ranging from power management to data encryption technologies against HTC, Canadian rival Research In Motion and tablet-maker ViewSonic. In the...
11:37 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Days ahead of the Finance Bill coming up in Parliament for passage, Vodafone group CEO Vittorio Colao on Wednesday met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee seeking reconsideration of the move to retrospectively amend laws that will have a tax implication of Rs 11,000 crore on the firm. Speaking to reporters after meeting, Mukherjee said, "Vodafone made a presentation of their case." Emerging out of the meeting, Colao said, "We...
11:17 AM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: A bill was on Monday introduced in the Rajya Sabha to amend existing laws to make divorce easier, with BJP opposing the legislation on the ground that certain provisions could be "dangerous" for women. Introducing the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, Law Minister Salman Khurshid said by amending the Hindu Marriage Act, 2007, and the Special Marriage Act, 1954, the government proposes to make divorce easier in case...
08:00 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet on Thursday okayed the Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill seeking to raise voting rights ceilings in private banks. The cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cleared the bill as recommended by the parliamentary standing committee on finance. The Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2011 was tabled in Parliament in 2011 and sent to the parliamentary standing committee for its views. The committee headed by former finance minister...
08:28 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: British telecom major Vodafone on Tuesday described a reported statement of Finance Secretary RS Gujral as "completely untrue" on the tax issue and said it had never received any communication from authorities to withhold tax while making payment to the Hutchison. "This is completely untrue. At no point before the transaction concluded and the payment was made did any entity of the Vodafone Group receive any communication at...
09:10 PM, Apr 24, 2012
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
