New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to give an urgent hearing to a PIL on the issue of US National Security Agency snooping on Internet data from India and seeking to initiate action against Internet companies for allowing the agency to access the information.
Agreeing to hear the PIL filed by a former Dean of Law Faculty of Delhi University Professor S N Singh, a bench of justices AK Patnaik and Ranjan Gogoi posted the case for hearing next week.
In his plea, Singh has alleged that such largescale spying by the US authorities is detrimental to national security and urged the apex court to intervene in the matter. He has claimed that the Internet companies are sharing information with the foreign authority in "breach" of contract and violation of right to privacy.
"As per reports, nine US-based Internet companies, operating in India through agreements signed with Indian users, shared 6.3 billion information/data with National Security Agency of US without express consent of Indian users. Such largescale spying by the USA authorities besides being against the privacy norms is also detrimental to national security," the petition, filed through advocate Virag Gupta, has said....
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06:20 PM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to give an urgent hearing to a PIL on the issue of US National Security Agency snooping on Internet data from India and seeking to initiate action against Internet companies for allowing the agency to access the information. Agreeing to hear the PIL filed by a former Dean of Law Faculty of Delhi University Professor S N Singh, a bench of justices...
11:59 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: The issue of the US National Security Agency monitoring internet data of India on Tuesday reached the Supreme Court with a PIL filed seeking its direction to the Centre to initiate action against internet companies for sharing information with foreign authority in "breach" of contract and violation of right to privacy. The PIL, filed by a former Dean of Law Faculty of Delhi University Professor SN Singh, alleged...
07:45 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Chennai: DMK on Monday announced staging statewide protests next month demanding immediate implementation of the Sethusamudram Shipping Channel project. This will be part of a series of protests on the issue, the DMK's Administrative Council under party chief M Karunanidhi resolved here today. The protests on July 8 will also demand that AIADMK government withdraw an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court against the project, it said. The Rs 2,400...
03:26 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Tuticorin (TN): The Sterlite Copper Smelter unit here, which was shut down over two months ago, has resumed operations after the National Green Tribunal's expert panel gave a green signal, officials said on Monday. The panel members conducted its second phase of inspection yesterday and checked if the pollution monitoring equipment at the unit was working properly. Later they gave the green signal for the operation of the plant and...
01:16 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday announced that the state government would soon approach the Supreme Court with a contempt of court petition against Karnataka and another petition to direct the central government to set up Cauvery Management Board (CMB) and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC). Jayalalithaa also announced sops for the state's farmers like fertilisers, pesticides and pipes free of cost involving an outlay of...
04:39 AM, Jun 15, 2013
New Delhi: Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, accused in the murders of their daughter Aarushi and servant Hemraj, have given a list of 13 witnesses to the Special CBI in Ghaziabad. The Talwar couple wants these witnesses for their defence. The list includes IPS officer Arun Kumar, who was the chief of the first CBI team that probed the twin murder case. Now the CBI has to file it...
01:00 PM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday said that admission to the under-graduate and post-graduate medical courses would be subject to the final outcome of the petitions challenging the Medical Council of India's decision requiring that candidates clear the National Eligibility Entrance Test. The apex court bench of Justice Gyan Sudha Misra and Justice Madan B Lokur said this on an application filed by NGO Sankalp, seeking direction that the private...
09:59 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the plea of Gujarat's Additional DGP PP Pandey for quashing of FIR and protection against the non-bailable arrest warrant, issued by a CBI court against him in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. "Having heard the parties at some length, we are not persuaded to entertain the petition under Article 32 (of the constitution) straight away. The petition is dismissed and the...
07:30 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: A trial court on Tuesday will examine the defence witnesses in the Aarushi-Hemraj duoble murder case. This comes after the Talwars had filed an appeal to have those witnesses summoned that were dropped by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The court said it was not inclined to interfere with the High Court's order. It added that nothing stops the Talwar couple from calling those witnesses as defence...
09:29 AM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear a PIL on Tuesday seeking a ban on Ranbaxy drugs. The petitioner cited the pharma giant's case in the US - where Ranbaxy USA admitted to selling substandard and adulterated drugs. The pharma giant was asked to pay a fine of 500 million dollars. Ranbaxy has been facing the heat off late - with a few hospitals banning its drugs. The PIL has...
08:49 AM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order allowing Sterlite Industries Ltd to recommence operation of its copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district under the supervision of an expert committee. "It would be appropriate to wait for the judgement (of NGT). Let the judgement come, then we may see," a bench of Justices Gyan Sudha Misra and Madan B Lokur...
07:40 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Panaji: BJP President Rajnath Singh on Saturday demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the Coalgate scam in which the CBI's status report was vetted before being submitted to the Supreme Court. "When the Prime Minister himself is under suspicion... why was the CBI report in the Coalgate probe changed in former law Minister Ashwani Kumar's room?" BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said, giving details of Rajnath's inaugural speech...
02:59 PM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: A Public-interest litigation (PIL) has been moved in the Supreme Court against Ranbaxy Pharma. The PIL is seeking prosecution of all Ranbaxy directors and sealing of its manufacturing units at Paonta Sahib and Devas. This was based on Ranbaxy USA's 500 million dollar settlement with the US for making and selling aulterated drugs for over four years. Earlier in May, Ranbaxy had pleaded guilty to felony charges. ...
09:22 AM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear next week a PIL seeking shifting of probe into the IPL spot-fixing scandal from Delhi and Mumbai Police to the Central Bureau of Investigation to unearth the larger conspiracy and insulate the investigation from "highly influential persons and politicians". The petition in this regard was mentioned before a bench of justices Gyan Sudha Misra and Madan B Lokur which said...
07:51 PM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday expressed surprise over former ministers getting security cover and questioned an ex-minister in Uttar Pradesh for seeking police protection. "Can you get Y security just because you are an ex-minister? We are unable to understand," a bench of justices Gyan Sudha Misra and Madan B Lokur asked Ramveer Upadhyay, a minister in the previous Mayawati government who was stripped of his security when...
04:25 PM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: The recent appointment of SK Sharma as the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) was on Monday challenged in the Supreme Court by lawyer and anti-corruption activist Prashant Bhushan. Bhushan has filed a PIL in the apex court, adding to a similar PIL that had been filed on May 22 by another lawyer ML Sharma. Both the matters are to be heard in July. Sharma on May 23 was...
03:12 PM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: The government is set to tell the Supreme Court that it is ready to bring in amendments to Delhi Police Establishments Act that will ensure more independence to the CBI, sources said on Saturday. Sources told CNN IBN that the government is also set to tell the apex court that it will not interfere in CBI investigations. Under fire for interfering in the probe into coal block allocations,...
06:20 PM, Jun 01, 2013
Ghaziabad: A Ghaziabad court on Friday decided to continue the trial in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case as it is, declining to give an acquittal order to the main suspects, Aarushi's parents, Rajesh and Nupur Talwar. The next date of hearing is on June 11 when the defence is likely to examine witnesses. The special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court was expected to decide if there is enough evidence to...
04:54 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked Delhi University to look into the grievances of blind students seeking a special course to initiate them into the four year undergraduate course starting in the coming academic year. The blind students have sought the introduction of a bridge course for teaching Mathematics and Science and Life so that they could pursue foundation course in the second year in the four year format....
02:34 AM, May 31, 2013
