New Delhi: A Delhi court, hearing a civil case against various social networking sites for allegedly displaying objectionable content, on Thursday slapped a fine of Rs 200 on a petitioner for seeking an urgent review of its order which dropped the names of Google India and others from the suit. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh slapped the fine on petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi for making the plea without any...
09:35 PM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Google India's name was on Friday taken out from the suit for trial of various social networking websites for allegedly hosting offending contents, after it was pointed out to a Delhi court that it is merely a software developing firm. Administrative Civil Judge Praveen Singh dropped the case against Google India agreeing with its plea that it does not operate any social networking website. The court also...
11:50 AM, Apr 13, 2012
Pune: Authorities screened 11,793 people for the presence of H1N1 virus across the district on Tuesday, the maximum number of persons tested in single day so far. During the process of screening, 14 persons tested H1N1 positive, raising the total number of swine flu cases to 205. Dr Vijay Powar, resident medical officer at District Civil Hospital, said that three patients continued to be on ventilator support, one each at...
01:24 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Los Angeles: Leading online dating companies eHarmony, Match.com and the operator of sites ChristianMingle and JDate have agreed to check subscribers against national sex offender registries to screen out predators, the California attorney general said on Tuesday. The set of business principles for the industry, which are also meant to screen out fraudsters, additionally includes providing customers with means to rapidly report abuse. The companies said they have already taken...
06:30 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday rejected a petition against Microsoft India in the objectionable content case. A civil case had been filed against Microsoft India for objectionable contents in their sites. While rejecting the complaint against Microsoft India, the court also directed the complainant to pay Rs 5000 as the cost of litigation. Meanwhile, search engine Google Inc told a Delhi court that that it had already removed...
05:54 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday exempted the heads of Google and Facebook from making a personal appearance in the court on March 13 in the objectionable content case. This came after the lawyers of the government and the websites sparred over their presence in the court. The government counsel, meanwhile, slammed Google and Facebook and hit out for not adhering to Indian sentiments. The counsel cited an...
04:38 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Bangalore: All websites, including social media sites, would have to operate within the India laws and be responsible for hosting any content, Minister of State for Communications & IT Sachin Pilot said on Monday. "Be it a social media website or any other site on internet, they all have to operate within the laws of the country and they should be accountable and responsible for what they put up on...
01:10 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Mumbai: A special screening of the Hindi flick 'Gali Gali Chor Hai' was held for anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare in his native village Ralegan Siddhi on Tuesday night in presence of the film's crew. "Anna saw the entire film which ended at around 10 pm and expressed satisfaction over it," Hazare's aide Datta Awari told PTI from Ralegan. "Anna agreed to watch the film despite ill health as it deals...
12:19 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday sought response from the city police on a plea of Yahoo India Pvt Ltd challenging the summons issued to it by a magistrate for allegedly hosting objectionable content. "Notice be issued for February 10," Justice Suresh Kait said while admitting the petition of Yahoo India for hearing. The court also allowed Yahoo India's plea that its case be heard separately. Senior advocate...
01:20 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook and Google, which are facing a lawsuit in India for allegedly hosting offensive content, are fighting back a case that has fired up a debate over Internet censorship in democratic India. And is there a balance that can be struck between the freedom of speech and controlling objectionable content. Petitioner Vinay Rai who filed a criminal complaint in Delhi's Patiala court against twenty networking sites, including Facebook,...
10:11 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear Google India and social networking site Facebook's plea on Tuesday as both websites are challenging the decision to prosecute them for posting objectionable content. Google and Facebook which are among 18 websites facing criminal proceedings are not giving up without a fight. On Monday, Google told the Delhi High Court that blocking it was not an option in a democracy. It pointed...
06:17 AM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: Google India, which along with 20 websites is facing criminal case for allegedly hosting objectionable materials, on Monday told the Delhi High Court that blocking them was not an option as a democratic India does not have a "totalitarian" regime like China. "The issue relates to a constitutional issue of freedom of speech and expression and suppressing it was not possible as the right to freedom of speech...
07:51 PM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: The government has sanctioned the prosecution of several websites including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and YouTube amongst others. The Delhi High Court had earlier refused to squash proceedings against Google and Facebook. The court had issued a summons to a host of websites on allegations that they were allowing defamatory articles against politicians and articles that hurt religious sentiments. The summons may be served through the Ministry of External...
11:03 PM, Jan 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday warned Facebook and Google that their websites could be blocked if they did not remove objectionable materials. The High Court observed, "Like China, we will block all such websites" that carry objectionable materials. The websites were asked by the court to create a mechanism to screen their content. In another setback to the websites, the High Court also refused to stay proceedings...
07:19 PM, Jan 12, 2012
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