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Need to adjust age of consent laws in India, separate it from age of marriage: Bombay High Court

A single bench of the Bombay High Court expressed concern over criminal cases under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual...

Indian Supreme Court to hear case to deal with suicide by married men

The Supreme Court of India will hear a plea looking to create guidelines to tackle the issue of suicide by married men subjected to domestic...

Family lawyer in death of Indian-origin minor alleges medical negligence; UK official calls for health warning on protein drinks

A senior official in the United Kingdom called for health warnings on protein drinks after the death of a 16-year-old Indian-origin boy,...

US market regulator charges Amazon with duping customers into subscribing to Prime

The United States’ Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a lawsuit against Jeff Bezos' Amazon for allegedly enrolling customers in its...

Guest, staff member collude to run up INR 58 lakh bill at 5-star hotel; check out without payment

A five-star hotel in New Delhi's Aerocity has alleged that one of its occupants skipped out on paying a massive bill after a long-term stay.

Punjab Police catch INR 8-crore heist masterminds with free fruit drinks

A Punjabi ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ who allegedly masterminded a daring multi-crore heist were nabbed because of their craving for a...

US government indicts four people involved in racket selling body parts donated to Harvard Medical School

The United States government has brought federal charges against the manager of the morgue at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and three other...

'Fabricated, politically motivated charges': Trump lashes out at Biden, prosecutors after being indicted in federal documents case

Former United States’ President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to dozens of criminal counts of willfully mishandling US government...

Panel investigating Hindenburg allegations against Adani Group gives clean chit to SEBI

A Supreme Court-appointed expert panel investigating India's regulatory mechanism regarding the Hindenburg allegations against the Adani...

Writer E Jean Carroll wins USD 5 million in defamation case; Trump slams verdict

A federal jury in New York City found that former United States President Donald Trump sexually abused advice columnist E Jean Carroll and...

Indian student in UK sent email threatening Salman Khan, claim cops

The Mumbai Police today issued a look out circular (LOC) against an Indian student pursuing medical education in the United Kingdom for...

Same-sex marriage in India: Supreme Court lawyers hit out at Bar Council resolution that opposed SC hearings

Two organisations of lawyers in India are pitted against each other on whether or not the Supreme Court should hear the clutch of petitions...

CBI court acquits Sooraj Pancholi in Indian-American actress Jiah Khan suicide case

A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Mumbai today acquitted actor Sooraj Pancholi of abetment to suicide charges in the...

Singapore commutes death penalty for heroin dealer, right after hanging Tangaraju Suppiah in cannabis case

The Singapore Court of Appeal changed the death sentence of a heroin dealer to 10 years in prison on the same day that Singaporean Indian...

Same-sex marriage in India: Basic rights not subject to whims and vagaries of majority, says lesbian lawyer

The Supreme Court of India has resumed its hearing on petitions related to legalising same-sex marriage, even as the Bar Council of India...

Singapore death penalty: Family of Tamil man Tangaraju Suppiah pleads for mercy, retrial

The family of death row convict in the narcotics trafficking case Tangaraju Suppiah has made an appeal to the Singapore authorities to save...

Rahul Gandhi vacates official bungalow, moves in with Sonia

While vacating his official residence, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that he was ready to pay any price for speaking the truth.

Singapore death penalty: Tamil man to be executed on April 26 over marijuana trafficking

Singapore News: In the first such instance in 2023, the authorities in Singapore will execute a Singaporean Tamil man named Tangaraju...

Police detain NRI Kirandeep Kaur, Amritpal Singh's wife, at Amritsar Airport

Extremist Sikh leader Amritpal Singh's wife Kirandeep Kaur, a Non-Resident Indian (NRI) who has a British passport, was stopped from leaving...

Same-sex marriage petitions hearing begins in Supreme Court of India

The issue of legal recognition for same-sex marriage comes up in the Supreme Court of India today, as a five-judge Constitution bench of the...

Kalakshetra sexual harassment case: 7 students approach Madras High Court to make campus safer

Kalakshetra sexual harassment case: The Madras High Court says it would take a call on April 24 on reconstitution of the internal complaints...

Two Indian-American executives convicted in billion-dollar fraud case

Indian American executives of a Chicago-based start-up were among those convicted of running a USD 1 billion corporate fraud scheme.

Former Indian-origin executives suing Elon Musk's Twitter

Former Twitter CEO Indian-American Parag Agrawal is one of three top Twitter executives filing suit against Elon Musk, who sacked them last...

Netflix responds to Indian legal notice over The Big Bang Theory

OTT platform Netflix has reportedly taken note of the legal notice filed by political analyst Mithun Vijay Kumar demanding the removal of an...

Kalakshetra sexual harassment case: Divya Hari Padman files counter complaint

Divya Hari Padman, wife of the arrested Kalakshetra teacher Hari Padman, filed a counter complaint with Chennai Police, alleging that her...