SC seeks HD Revanna's reply on Karnataka govt's plea against HC order dropping Section 354 chargeThe Supreme Court will review a plea from Karnataka challenging a high court decision. This decision had previously quashed a charge agains...
13 Jul, 2026, 02.07 PM IST
Trump opposes letting E. Jean Carroll collect $5 million award, cites Supreme Court bidThe lawyers said Trump would be irreparably harmed and face "unrecoverable loss" if Carroll fulfills her stated intention to give away the ...
08 Jul, 2026, 07.27 PM IST
Chinese men in Germany used Telegram groups to share rape videos and drugging tips: ProsecutorsProsecutors are investigating a Telegram network used by Chinese men for sexual assaults. These perpetrators referred to women as "cars" an...
08 Jul, 2026, 02.24 PM IST
Chinese men in Germany used Telegram groups to share rape videos and drugging tips, prosecutors sayInvestigators have been poring through several years' worth of posts in roughly two dozen group chats on the popular messaging app that aut...
08 Jul, 2026, 10.02 AM IST
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeks dismissal of sister's punitive damages claims in sexual abuse lawsuitAnnie Altman accused her brother of sexually abusing and raping her between 1997 and 2006 at the family home in suburban Clayton, Missouri...
16 Apr, 2026, 07.57 AM IST
France's first big #MeToo trial: Film director found guilty of sexually assaulting 12 year-old actressA Paris court convicted filmmaker Christophe Ruggia of sexually assaulting actor Adele Haenel between ages 12 and 15. Ruggia received a two...
03 Feb, 2025, 08.31 PM IST
Sexual exploitation of minors plagued societies worldwide, matter of serious concern in India: SCThe Supreme Court of India has highlighted the critical issue of child sexual exploitation and the necessity of the POCSO Act, 2012. The co...
23 Sep, 2024, 06.55 PM IST
Austrian actor Florian Teichtmeister guilty of possessing child sex abuse images, gets 2-yr suspended prisonFlorian Teichtmeister previously pleaded guilty to collecting and, in some cases, processing, files containing depictions of the sexual abu...
06 Sep, 2023, 11.57 AM IST
We swear, it's not the swear words' fault!Be that as it may, the Lingua study reveals that swearing - when not in anger, but in banter, in regular speech, etc - can make a person no...
06 Nov, 2022, 11.11 PM IST
Amber Heard to appeal $10 mn judgment she was ordered to pay ex-husband Johnny Depp in defamation caseMuch of the testimony focused on Heard's claims that she had been abused by Depp.
22 Jul, 2022, 10.29 AM IST
Jury finds Bill Cosby sexually abused 16-year-old at Playboy Mansion in 1975The jurors' decision is a major legal defeat for the 84-year-old entertainer once hailed as America's dad.
22 Jun, 2022, 09.12 AM IST
New York court upholds Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction chargesThe 5 judges unanimously upheld the guilty verdicts, resulting in a 23-year sentence.
03 Jun, 2022, 02.56 PM IST
Late-June sentencing date set for Ghislaine Maxwell in sex traffic caseThe British socialite was convicted last month on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.
15 Jan, 2022, 10.18 AM IST
POCSO gets back its extracted teethSex crimes, particularly those involving children, are complicated and difficult to pin down. Therefore, to limit the scope of the judicial...
01 Dec, 2021, 11.23 PM IST
Verdict in Priya Ramani case will give more women courage to speak up against abuse: ActivistsA Delhi court on Wednesday acquitted journalist Ramani in Akbar's criminal defamation case against her over the allegations of sexual haras...
17 Feb, 2021, 07.06 PM IST
A huge win for #MeToo movement: Harvey Weinstein verdict could change the way US legal system views assaultThe Harvey Weinstein conviction is a morale booster for women everywhere in the world.
27 Feb, 2020, 08.59 AM IST
SC asks two clergymen to surrender in Kerala Church sex scandalThe counsel for victim alleged that some videos were uploaded by the accused on the Internet and they used the same to blackmail her.
06 Aug, 2018, 01.16 PM IST