Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie has warned against the “alarming” threats to freedom of expression around the world, including in India, as he accepted the Freedom to Publish......
A United States judge has reserved his orders on submissions by the Congress party that the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case filed against it by a rights group in New York be dismissed as the Manhattan......
A fast track court on Thursday dismissed the bail plea of French Consulate official Pascal Mazurier, arrested on charge of raping his four-year-old daughter, on the ground that there was 'direct......
In a case the prosecutors say took an extraordinary time to take a man to trial, an Ohio judge has ruled that 64-year-old Biswanath Halder is sane enough to be tried. Halder faces death sentence......
An Indian-American legal luminary has been nominated by United States President Donald Trump to a key judicial position on the powerful US court of appeals. Amul Thapar, 47, who in 2007 became the......
Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, wanted in India in connection with the nearly USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case, was on Thursday further remanded to......
He has been lodged at Wandsworth prison in south-west London since his arrest in March in connection with the nearly $2 billion Punjab National Bank fraud and money laundering case. Illustration:......
A US federal judge dismissed claims against seven former directors of Satyam Computer Services Ltd in shareholder lawsuits stemming from the massive fraud at the heart of India's largest corporate......
Former WorldCom chief executive Bernard Ebbers has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for orchestrating a record $11 billion fraud that toppled the telecommunications company he founded.Judge......
Ramalinga Raju, former chairman of Satyam Computers, who last year confessed to have inflated his company's assets by over $1 billion, was declared a pauper by a New York court exempting him from......
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities: Image: Karan Johar, Lauren Gottlieb, Shahid Kapoor and Ganesh Hedge. His wedding day may be......
'You'll find more wisdom on such matters in a Sara Ali Khan interview,' says Sukanya Verma. Did I just hear 'misogynist' in a Hindi film? The irony is not lost when its co-producer and writer......
The Emmy nominations for 2018. Game Of Thrones led the 70th Emmy awards with the highest nominations at 22. It was followed by Saturday Night Live and Westworld at 21, and The......
The 72th Annual Golden Globe awards have been announced. There have been quite a few surprises and some expected nods. Here's a quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: BEST MOTION......
The 87th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. A quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: BEST PICTURE American Sniper Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Boyhood The......
IMAGE: Bahadur Singh Sagoo. Photograph: X Asian Games gold-winning former shot putter Bahadur Singh Sagoo was on Tuesday elected unopposed as the Athletics Federation of India's president,......
IMAGE: Nishant Dev lost 1-4 to USA's Omari Jones. Photograph: BFI/X Nishant Dev missed out on a Paris Olympic quota by a whisker, suffering a heartbreaking loss in the 71kg quarterfinals as all......
IMAGE: Mike Tyson, right, throws a punch at Roy Jones Jr. during the heavyweight exhibition boxing bout for the WBC Frontline Belt at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, on Saturday. Photographs:......
Disgraced US sprinter Marion Jones was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday for lying to federal prosecutors about her steroid use, a stunning downfall for the five-time Olympic medallist.......
IMAGE: Ireland's Michael Conlan, left, and Vladimir Nikitin of Russia during their men's Bantamweight (56kg) quarter-final at the rio Olympics. Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Reuters. Olympic......