Supreme Court (Photo: ANI) NEW DELHI: Putting a premium on the right to free speech and expression, Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of Sakshi TV anchor K Srinivasa Rao, who was held by Andhra police for abetting alleged derogatory and defamatory statements by a panelist on his live show on Amaravati. Justices Mishra…
A North Dakota jury on Wednesday awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer, which had sued Greenpeace over its role in protests nearly a decade ago against its Dakota Access Pipeline. The verdict was a major blow to the storied environmental organization. Greenpeace had maintained that it…
A judge in the US state of Missouri has held the Chinese government liable for covering up the Covid-19 pandemic and also for engaging in “monopolistic action” to hoard personal protective equipment (PPE) during the global pandemic that killed more than 70 lakh people across the world since it emerged in 2019. In his ruling,…
A US judge ruled on Friday in favour of Meta Platforms’ META.O WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software allowing unauthorised surveillance. US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, California, granted a motion by WhatsApp and found NSO liable for hacking and…
NEW DELHI: Providing a loophole to ingenious persons, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that if a person repays a personal loan through a cheque signed by him as a director of a company, then he would not be liable to be prosecuted under Section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act if the cheque bounced..A man…