The use of the national anthem tune as ring tone or welcome tune is illegal, the Dhaka High Court ruled Thursday.Accepting a writ petition filed by a lawyer four years ago, the court also imposed a fine of Taka five million ($ 71,942) each on t ..

In a bizarre protest, four Chinese men in Beijing chopped off the tip of the little finger of their hand and swallowed it to protest their sacking from a power utility company.Li Bo, Zhang Yongsheng, Huang Qunyue and Zhang Shen are former employees o ..

The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) and the NCERT seeking reply on a public interest litigation (PIL) which seeks making yoga part of health and physical education in schools.A Division Ben ..

Five days after yesteryear's wanted criminal Charles Sobhraj had his appeal against a life term for murder rejected by Nepal's Supreme Court, it was the turn of his fiancee, Nihita Biswas, and her mother Shakuntala Thapa to appear in the same ..

Without protecting the basic human rights of people, the goals of security forces cannot be achieved -- be it combating terrorism or Maoists, experts said here Wednesday."Without protecting human rights, the challenge of terrorism, confrontation ..

 Yet another black mark against the Commonwealth Games organisers. Children of over 400,000 construction workers at the Games sites are deprived of basic rights like sanitation, schooling and healthcare, said a report released here Wednesday.The ..

Labour trouble is rearing its head afresh at Hyundai Motor India's plant at Irrungattukottai near here even as the car maker is getting ready to celebrate production and sales milestone of three million units Wednesday."The company managemen ..

Hearing a plea seeking arrest of a politician's musclemen, the Supreme Court Tuesday said policing is not a part of its mandate and it could not help if its orders were not being executed by the law enforcing agencies."If our orders are not  ..

In partial relief to Bollywood actress Priety Zinta and other three owners of Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kings XI Punjab, the Punjab and Haryana High Court Tuesday stayed the proceedings of a case against them in a local court here till Sep 22. ..

"I intend to move the Supreme Court to recall the order of transfer of the case to CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation)," Ram Jethmalani, counsel for former Gujarat minister Amit Shah in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh killing, said Monday.Jet ..

The Delhi High Court Monday awarded compensation of Rs.5 lakh to the family of a retired bureaucrat who died last year after falling into a pit left uncovered by a negligent civic contractor outside his south Delhi home.A division bench of Chief Just ..

The Delhi High Court Monday dismissed the petition of a woman wrestler who challenged the selection criteria of the Wrestling Federation of India for the Commonwealth Games.Justice S. Murlidhar, while dismissing the plea of Sonika Kaliraman, said: &q ..

In a blow to the Maharashtra government, the Supreme Court Friday rejected its petition and directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to continue with its probe into the Hari Masjid police firing on Jan 10, 1993, in which six people were kil ..

The final hearing in the killing of Sadiq Jamal Mehtar, an alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba militant who was killed in 2003 in a staged shootout by the state police, began in the Gujarat High Court Friday.In the partly heard matter, advocate S.H. Iyer who app ..

A Russian woman, Olga Timoshik, who was arrested last month for assisting a suspected German spy, has been granted bail by the court but is still in jail as she has failed to furnish the bail bonds.Additional Sessions Judge Surinder Mohan granted bai ..

The conviction and life imprisonment awarded to Charles Sobhraj in a 35-year-old murder case was upheld by Nepal's Supreme Court Friday.A division bench of Justices Ram Kumar Prasad Shah and Gauri Dhakal upheld the 20-year imprisonment handed ove ..

An application filed by Rajesh Talwar, father of teenager Aarushi who was murdered along with her family's domestic help in 2008, seeking to restrain the media from indulging in reckless reporting on the case will be heard Aug 9, the Supreme Cour ..

All the four medical students accused of ragging to death first year student Aman Kachru last year surrendered in a local Himachal Pradesh court here Thursday.The Himachal Pradesh High Court had Wednesday cancelled the bail given to Ajay Verma, Navee ..

In a far-reaching move, Bangladesh's Supreme Court has restored 'secularism' in the country's constitution. It has also denounced the declaration of martial law in the past and sought safeguards to end "extra-constitutional adven ..

The Himachal Pradesh High Court Wednesday cancelled bail to four students of a medical college for ragging to death first year student Aman Kachru last year.The order was delivered by Justice D.D. Sud who had asked the government why their bail shoul ..