The case had begun in 2008, when an activist filed a PIL to get the search engines to abide by local law which bans such tests to arrest th...

Section 22 of the PCPNDT Act pertains to prohibition of advertisements relating to pre-natal determination of sex and punishment for contra...

A citizen has a right to access to internet. We are on a concept of pre-censorship. Court has to be very cautious, a bench led by Justice D...

The court has been dealing with a PIL which demanded that these search engines either comply with local laws banning such tests or wind up ...

During the hearing, Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar said that companies were violating the PCPNDT Act by displaying advertisements on sex de...

Maneka had said that sex determination test should be made compulsory to track women pregnant with a girl child as a measure to check femal...

Earlier, the court had come down heavily on various states for their failure to stop female foeticide leading to an alarming drop in the se...

The court had directed Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to strictly comply with Indian laws and block advertisements on sex determination of a f...

Even as the country is grappling with the problem of bias against girl child, e-market places like Amazon and Flipkart are found selling bo...

If any advertisement existed on any search engine, these should be "withdrawn forthwith" by the search engines, the apex court said categor...

Microsoft submitted before SC that it never advertised any pre-natal sex selection technologies on its website in violation of Indian laws.

The court also expressed unhappiness over a 2010 affidavit of Group Coordinator and Enforcement Division of Department of Information Techn...

A Smithsonian exhibition captures a smidgen of Indian-American heritage and history, although it could have done better to go beyond the st...

To cash in on the Christmas and New Year demand, Kerala based Elite Foods, makers of different varities of Plum cakes, launched two new spe...

Expressing concern over increasing female foeticide in India, American lawmakers and experts have asked the US Government to help.

Mumbai seems to prefer its men to women in all age categories, according to the provisional Census 2011 figures released on Friday.

Internet giants Google and Microsoft have pulled adverts for sex selection products and services considered illegal in India after being th...