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NEW DELHI: A court in Delhi has ordered the former wife of cricketer Shikhar Dhawan to return approximately Rs 5.7 crore, holding that orders passed by an Australian family court under the concept of “property settlement” are contrary to Indian law and unenforceable in India.Family court judge Devender Kumar Garg also directed that she couldn’t…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that most of the US’ trading partners want to continue trade arrangements negotiated under his tariffs despite the recent ruling by the Supreme Court striking down many of them.Speaking at the joint session of Congress during his 2026 State of the Union address, Trump also reiterated that tariff revenue…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday said some mechanism needs to be devised, not necessarily punitive, to make voting compulsory so that democracy gets stronger by attracting more eligible people to contest elections and render Nota option redundant. A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said the Nota option was devised to…
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appeared before a Los Angeles Superior Court last week. The CEO of the social media giant Meta arrived at the court to testify in a closely watched social media addiction trial involving the company. However, the proceedings quickly drew attention after the presiding judge warned executives accompanying the company’s CEO for…
Newly-available court documents have revealed that senior executives at Facebook-parent company Meta internally warned the company that its plan to encrypt Facebook Messenger was “irresponsible” because it would lead to a massive drop in the detection of child exploitation and terrorism material on the platform. The internal communications, made public in a New Mexico state…
Karnataka HC hears Ranveer Singh’s case over IFFI remarks mimicking Rishab Shetty’s Kantara role, allegedly hurting religious sentiments. Court slams recklessness, grants interim protection till March 2. FIR under BNS 196, 299, 302. Counsel admits fault; next hearing Monday. The Karnataka High Court has taken up a case involving actor Ranveer Singh, following his appearance…
The petitioner approached the High Court seeking quashing of the appointment order and her own appointment based on merit. (AI image) In a strongly worded decision that upheld the constitutional right to equality in the public employment, the Gujarat High Court ruled that refusal to employ an unmarried woman on the assumption that she might…
NEW DELHI: Refusing to marry due to a ‘kundali’ (horoscope) mismatch after establishing physical relationship based on an assurance of marriage can attract Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita which criminalises sexual intercourse through deceitful means, the Delhi High Court has said.Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma made the observation while declining bail to a man…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India has permitted the Calcutta High Court to deploy additional judicial officers, including from Jharkhand and Odisha, to expedite scrutiny of voter inclusion claims in West Bengal’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.The court took note of the Calcutta HC Chief Justice’s assessment that despite assigning 294 serving…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain Subramanian Swamy‘s plea to restrain the Andhra Pradesh govt from conducting an administrative inquiry to identify lapses and fasten responsibility on officers resulting in alleged adulteration of ‘laddu’ prasadam of Tirupati temple.Swamy’s counsel said as the court had already constituted an SIT to probe the controversy…
