Hewlett-Packard Co sued its former chief executive Mark Hurd to block him from joining rival Oracle Corp as a senior executive, alleging the hiring breaches his exit agreement and will lead to a transfer of technology giant's trade secrets to a competitor.
The world's No. 1 golfer Tiger Woods and his Swedish wife Elin Nordegren said on Monday they had divorced following the torrid sex scandal that engulfed Woods late last year.
At least 85 people have died of coronavirus with the confirmed cases crossing 4,500 in the US.
The King of Pop, who was allegedly being treated for insomnia, had lethal levels of the strong anaesthetic Propofol in his body when he died, according to court papers.
An 18-year-old student from India has been arrested in the United States on charges of rape after he was accused of entering the room of another student and sexually assaulting her.
An Indian man was today sentenced to life imprisonment in the US after he pleaded guilty to setting afire his two sons, who succumbed to their injuries in 2007.
Former Premier League striker Delroy Facey has been charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, officers investigating match-fixing said on Monday.
Jon remains in Los Angeles County jail following his arrest on March 6 for rape and related charges. The bail was set for $1.365 million.
Morgan and her husband Servando Carrasco last month announced that they were expecting a daughter.
The win will have nationwide implications for a wide range of cases dealing with religious land interests.
Kshitiji Nishkant Shrotri, charged with aggravated armed assault on a research fellow who he suspected to have taken away the woman he fancied, continued to be in a jail in Atlanta more than a week after the attack. Shrotri, who grew up in Pune, Maharashtra and studied in Purdue University before coming to Georgia Tech where the attack took place, reportedly had no visitors in jail. News reports and the authorities said he is a post-doctoral researcher.
A New York hospital's staff negligently shaved an elderly Sikh patient's beard, eyebrows and moustache a month before his death, resulting in a lawsuit from his family which received US $ 20,000 in compensation.
China has sentenced a senior Tibetan religious leader, known as a 'Living Buddha', to eight-and-a-half years in jail for illegally occupying government land and possession of weapons, a news report said on Thursday.
Upaid claimed it had served requests for production of documents related to the 'now scuttled Maytas transfers on Satyam' on Friday, but now had to submit this motion to the court 'because Satyam had repeatedly resisted its efforts to depose Raju and Vadlamani in the case.' The current motion is in reply to a disparagement case that Satyam had filed against Upaid wherein the former had claimed that the payment services firm has been disparaging them in the public domain.
Lovely Varughese, the mother of Pravin Varughese, 19, a student at the Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, filed a civil suit against Gaege Bethune, 22, the last person to see Pravin alive, the City of Carbondale and Police Chief Jodi O'Guinn demanding compensation in excess of $1 million (Rs 10,00,000)from each.
Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty in federal court to hate crime and firearm offenses arising out of the shooting.
Extending an olive branch to his opponents, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday announced to set up a commission of Supreme Court judges to probe the charges of rigging in the last year's elections.
Australia all-rounder James Faulkner has been charged with drink-driving by Greater Manchester Police, Cricket Australia said on Friday.
A 28-year-old Indian man, wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in relation to a 2008 shooting of another Indian, will be extradited to the United States from India to face homicide charges.
Mayorga's lawyer Leslie Stovall has claimed that she received a call from a woman 'having had a similar experience (like that of Mayorga's)', according to British media.
Brandon Kiel, the deputy director of community affairs for California's Justice Department, which Kamala Harris heads, is currently on administrative leave as he faces charges of impersonating a police officer. Ritu Jha reports
The Indian cricket board (BCCI) is likely to haul up discarded Karun Nair and Murali Vijay and seek an explanation from them about their comments on the 'communication policy' of the MSK Prasad-led national selection committee.
'Many of the players in IPL are the sons of men and women who are in ordinary jobs and not well off.' 'These players are the first in their family ever to move into another social class.' 'I think it is a very fine thing that young men from ordinary backgrounds get exposed to fame and money, and playing with legends from abroad and India,' says Aakar Patel.
Two Indian-American teens charged with combined 73 felony counts for allegedly hacking school computers -- for stealing tests and changing grades -- have pleaded not guilty at a court in southern California.County prosecutors allege that the two students broke into their Tesoro High School to steal tests and change their own and others' grades on the school computer network.If convicted, Omar Khan, 18, faces decades in prison while Tanvir Singh could get three years.
Jerome Barson, who was a passenger in a sedan that collided with the SUV that Venus Williams was driving, died 13 days after the accident.
Sukhbir Channa, a 24-year-old Sikh musician, has filed a $1 million class action complaint against Walt Disney World.The lawsuit, filed in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court in Hillsborough County, Florida, claims that Channa was denied employment despite being qualified for the job because of the 'look problem' a reference to his turban and beard.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
Ansu Philip says her beautiful, compassionate daughter, who had a great sense of humour, was nothing like the investigations, and the media, made her out to be. "People made up stories; there was nothing we could do to stop them," she says.
The players would train under coach Balwinder Singh Sandhu, a member of the 1983 World Cup winning squad.
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Apple had argued that the government request and the court order were a massive overreach.
Dr Dipak Desai,a prominent Indian-origin doctor who is a majority owner of a clinic chain linked to a hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas has been restrained from practising by a court.
A drunk Vazquez was thrown out of a football game and put into a cab driven by Singh. While Singh was driving down, Vazquez punched him, bit him on the scalp and called him an 'Iraqi terrorist'. Singh, who pulled to the side of the freeway, told police that he had been afraid for his life and that of others on the road. Singh said, through a Punjabi interpreter, that he and other members of the Sikh community wanted to offer forgiveness to Vazquez.
The Delhi high court on Tuesday dismissed as "premature" the plea challenging a trial court order recommending extradition to the USA of Indian Catholic priest Rev Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in that country during his stay in 2004.
Jon will be appearing in person in Los Angeles Superior Court in Beverly Hills on April 4 for arraignment.
Indian-born actor Shelley Malil, best known for his performance in The 40 year Old Virgin, has pleaded not guilty in a court to a charge of attempted murder following his arrest for allegedly stabbing his former girlfriend 20 times.
Shocked Indian students in North America have launched an online petition addressed to the Indian government and the Indian embassy in Washington, lashing out at the alleged apathy of local autorities in the case.
Besides the woman's husband Chetan, her mother-in-law, a family friend, and a woman, who the prosecution said was having an affair with Chetan, were also sentenced to life imprisonment.
Hindu priest Prakashanand Saraswati, 79, has been charged with 20 counts of indecency with a child and released on a whopping $1 million bail bond by a United States court. Known to his followers as Shree Swamiji, the priest is accused of groping two underage girls on several occasions in the 1990s. The case stems from an investigation that started in May 2007, sealed indictments were issued in April after which an arrest warrant was issued against Saraswati.
Prakashanand Saraswati, 79, founder of the Barsana Dham centre in north Hays County in Texas -- one of the biggest Hindu temples in the US -- was arrested at an airport in Washington, DC last week. Known to his followers as Shiree Swamiji, the priest is accused of groping two underage girls on several occasions in the 1990s.
'Information developed revealed the suspect was upset with Shayona's parents and sister for discontinuing the relationship due to different religious backgrounds, Hindu and Muslim,' the court papers said.
