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The past few weeks have seen a sudden flurry of activity centered around the open plots of land at Wanowrie ahead of Sacred Heart Town. Spread over approximately 48 acres in three broad chunks, a part of the area has been used by people for walks and even the odd game of cricket / football. There [...]

Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors has been given the go-ahead by the Delhi High Court for public release. The film is a story of a 10-year-old boy who moves to England with his family and gets involved in a plan to save the world. Warner Bros had sued the film makers, their contention being that the [...]

Well, in case we did not know the meaning of idiot, the Supreme Court has a new definition of the term. The court was hearing a case from Madhya Pradesh where one Hari Singh Gond murdered his grandfather-in-law and then claimed innocence on the grounds of idiocy. Under Section 84 of the IPC (Indian Penal Code), a person is [...]

An employment tribunal has awarded £30,000 as compensation to estate agent Julie-Anne Reed of Exeter, Devon after she was repeatedly criticised by her boss for her 36 DD chest size. He is also alleged to have told her on several occasions to “either reduce the size of her breasts or get some new blouses.”, which induced bouts of depression [...]

Former MP Madhukar Sarpotdar of the Shiv Sena was convicted for his role in the 1992-93 Mumbai riots case. As expected, party patriarch Bal Thackeray immediately sprang to his defence, saying ‘Sarpotdar’s only crime was raising the Vande Mataram slogan, mainly to counter chants of ’Pakistan Zindabad’ by rioters.

If you happen to be the victim in a road accident, and are unable to get compensation as the culprit’s licence was fake, here’s some good news for you. The Supreme Court has ruled that insurance companies cannot deny compensation to the victim on the grounds that a driver of an insured vehicle was carrying a [...]

The Supreme Court, in a landmark ruling, has said that Som Mittal, who is currently Chairman of NASSCOM, should be prosecuted for not taking measures to ensure the safety of employees while he was heading Hewlett Packard. In December 2005, one of the employees, Pratibha Srikant Murthy was raped and murdered by a cab driver who was an employee of [...]