New Delhi: iPhone and iPad maker Apple Inc has come under the scanner of the Competition Commission of India for allegedly limiting the availability of its products to a few service providers using its dominant market position. A customer has filed a complaint before the Commission under section 4 of the Competition Act 2002 that Apple is curbing the customer's choice by limiting the availability of iPhones and iPads in...
07:32 PM, Jun 20, 2011
New Delhi: An advocate on Sunday approached the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the government to issue a white paper on the entire episode leading to the eviction of yoga guru Ramdev and the alleged barbaric police action early on Sunday against his followers at the Ramlila Grounds. The petition filed by Ajay Agarwal said in the white paper the government should explain the entire sequence of events, details...
08:45 PM, Jun 05, 2011
New Delhi: The waiting list of death row mercy pleas has become shorter as President Pratibha Patil has rejected the mercy petitions of two murder convicts MN Das and Devender Bhullar. Khalistani terrorist Bhullar was convicted for attacking Congress leader MS Bitta in 1993, leading to several deaths in Delhi. It comes after the Supreme Court on Monday expressed surprise over the 8-year delay in the disposal of Bhullar's plea....
07:05 AM, May 27, 2011
Madurai: A petition was on Monday filed in the Madras High Court bench here, seeking action against sportstars Sachin Tendulkar and Sania Mirza and two others for "insulting" the national flag. Petitioner B Stalin sought a direction to register the cases against the four under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971 and Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper use) Act, 1950. Popular TV host Mandira Bedi and...
07:15 PM, May 23, 2011
New Delhi: Aggreived by being referred as "tainted" and being listed in the category of "men who shamed India" by the media, former Central Vigilance Commissioner P J Thomas has approached the Supreme Court seeking a CBI probe into alleged distortion in the reporting of his case. Thomas has also sought laying of guidelines for reporting of court proceedings contending that while reporting his case the media had crossed all...
08:23 PM, May 12, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the petition seeking a ban on sale and production of the pesticide Endosulfan across the country. The petition filed by CPI-M's youth wing Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) would be mentioned before a bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia. In its petition, DYFI has sought a direction to the Centre to prohibit the sale of Endosulfan in its...
08:04 AM, May 02, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgement on the plea of CBI for prosecuting Bhopal gas tragedy case accused, who have escaped with lighter punishment of two years jail term, under the stringent penal provision attracting maximum ten years of imprisonment. The bench headed by the Chief Justice SH Kapadia will pass its verdict over the petition seeking to recall the apex court's 14-year-old judgment that had...
07:11 PM, Apr 27, 2011
San Francisco: A thin but energetic Steve Jobs made a surprise return to the spotlight on Wednesday, taking the stage to unveil Apple Inc's new iPad and drawing a standing ovation. The Silicon Valley legend has been out on medical leave since late January and his reappearance, in trademark turtleneck and jeans, bolstered Apple shares and reassured investors and fans worried about his health. Defying speculation in some tabloid reports...
09:02 AM, Mar 03, 2011
UTV World Movies is providing a platform to ‘budding talent’ from across the country. It has introduced ‘Premier - The Short Film Competition’ to recognize, handpick and showcase some upcoming talent in the short film segment. The contest is open to amateur and professional film makers alike to create a short film and get a chance to showcase it on-air on the movies channel. The contest will be judged by...
11:45 AM, Feb 23, 2011
Washington: The United States on Thursday will submit a petition before the Lahore court to certify that Raymond Allen Davis, who has been arrested on murder charges, has diplomatic immunity and he should be released. "On Thursday, we will present a petition to the court to certify that he has diplomatic immunity and that he should be released," P J Crowley State Department spokesman told reporters. He insisted that Davis...
10:19 AM, Feb 15, 2011
Tokyo: Over a thousand people gathered on the outskirts of Tokyo, shovels in hand, to dig it out for the top prize in the Japan All-National Hole Digging Competition and claim the coveted Golden Shovel award. The contest drew participants from all over the country to test their hole-digging prowess and claim awards not only for the deepest hole, but also for most creative hole and the most original costume...
11:42 AM, Feb 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the central and Tamil Nadu governments on a petition seeking compensation for the 94 students who died in a fire in a primary school in Tamil Nadu's Kumbakonam town in July 2004. An apex court bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma issued notice on the petition by the Kumbakonam fire tragedy victims' association.The petitioner has also demanded...
12:17 PM, Feb 04, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Attorney General on a petition seeking complete disclosure of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia's telephonic conversations with various public figures. A bench comprising justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly asked the Attorney General G E Vahanvati to file his response within two weeks and posted the matter for hearing on March 8. The tapes reportedly include her...
06:53 PM, Feb 02, 2011
New Delhi: The petitioner in Citibank fraud case Sanjeev Aggarwal on Wednesday slammed Citibank, saying the multi-national bank should own up for whatever has gone wrong. He said that he had sent many queries regarding unauthorised inflows in his account, but none of them were answered. Aggarwal said, "I came to know about this a month back, when we got a very cryptic call from Citibank officials, stating that there...
03:33 PM, Jan 05, 2011
Washington: Inspired by the science fiction movie "I, Robot," two high school students, one of them an Indian American, have developed a speech recognition technology that has won them a $100,000 grand prize. Akash Krishnan and Matthew Fernandez of Portland, Oregon, who developed a computer algorithm that can detect a speaker's emotions better than current technology, would share the team prize, the Siemens Competition for America's top math and science...
05:05 PM, Dec 08, 2010
New Delhi: The apex court will hear two petitions against former Telecom Minister A Raja in the 2G spectrum scam case on Monday. The court will hear a petition filed by noted lawyer Prashant Bhushan on the CAG report which relates to the licenses that were issued to ineligible companies at 2001 prices. The court is also expected to decide on Janta Party leader Subramanian Swamy's petition on whether the...
09:02 AM, Nov 22, 2010
Actor Shahrukh Khan took time out from his busy schedule to cheer for his kids Aryan and Suhana, who were competing in the 6th National Taekwondo competition held in Mumbai. ...
09:18 AM, Oct 05, 2010
Washington: US President Barack Obama has counselled American children to aim high as the country's success in the 21st century depends on them in the face of increasing competition from "Bangalore, India" and "Beijing, China" where students are "working harder than ever". "You've got an obligation to yourselves, and America has an obligation to you to make sure you're getting the best education possible," he said on Tuesday in a...
11:52 AM, Sep 15, 2010
Seventy-seven mercy petitions have been decided by the President during the last 30 years. ...
05:27 PM, Jun 04, 2010
