According to a report in The Guardian, 2000 Oxford University modern history graduate Faiz Siddiqui has filed a £1m claim in a UK court against his alma mater, alleging that the “appallingly bad” and “boring” instruction meant that he did not obtain a first (the highest possible grade) but only a 2:1 (the next highest grade) in college and therefore lost out on becoming a successful international commercial lawyer.

The Indian Express and others have reported this litigation over the trendy augmented reality mobile game, which requires users to collect virtual pets in the real world:

The Delhi high court today asked Chief Arvind Kejriwal to explain the meaning of the word “thulla”, which he used during a television debate on policemen.

>A PIL was on Friday moved in the Delhi high court seeking to restrain manufacture, supply and sale of ‘Godfather’ beer in the national capital, saying that it hurt religious sentiments.

A case has been filed in a Bihar court against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for insulting the national flag, a lawyer said on Wednesday.

A Delhi court today dismissed a defamation case filed by a policeman against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for using a derogatory term against the men in khaki.

A Delhi court on Saturday issued summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly using the word “thulla” - derogatory Delhi slang for cop - to describe policemen.

The Delhi high court today refused to entertain a plea that sought action against JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charge. Action was sought against Kanhaiya on the charge that he had said that the Indian Army was responsible for rapes of women in Kashmir, as reported earlier ...

A petition was filed in the Delhi high court on Tuesday seeking action against JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on a sedition charge for saying that the Indian Army is responsible for rapes of women in Kashmir. Justice Pratibha Rani would hear the case post-lunch on Tuesday. “Indian Army...

A lower court today issued summons to Lord Hanuman for appearance in court in connection with a roadside temple dedicated to him in Rohtas district, a government lawyer said. The Sub-Divisional Magistrate in Rohtas asked the monkey god to appear in his court after hearing a complaint of encroachment...

Advocate Pradeep Dwivedi, represented by advocate Anupam Dwivedi, has filed a criminal contempt and sedition complaints against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly using “defamatory and seditious” words against prime minister Narendra Modi, which would spread disharmony,reported First...

The Supreme Court will look into a plea for a ban on websites with jokes on the Sikhs, as a lawyer-petitioner told the apex court on Friday that the community was projected as people of low intellect, stupid and foolish through such jokes. As petitioner Harvinder Chowdhary urged for directions to ba...

A case was filed today against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in a court in the Bihar capital for giving a “religious colour” to yoga, thereby hurting people’s sentiments, one day before Modi’s national Yoga day celebrations. “We have filed a case a...

Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit has been served a notice by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for endorsing Maggi noodles, an official said on Friday. The film actress is seen endorsing the two-minute noodle as a healthy food for children in a television commercial. The FDA in Uttar Pradesh had sou...

A petition seeking quashing of the Delhi government’s decision to file defamation cases against media organisations for publishing or broadcasting defamatory news about Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was filed in the Delhi high court on Wednesday. The public interest litigation, filed by advocate ML...

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre and the state governments, including union territories, on a PIL seeking that country should be named as ‘Bharat’. The PIL petition has sought direction to the Centre and the state governments including union territories to use to Bharat for al...

Advocate Sushil Kumar Mishra has filed a criminal defamation complaint before an Allahabad magistrate against US president Barack Obama, who allegedly “tarnished the image of India which is a secular country”, after POTUS warned in a speech on his India visit that religious tolerance was on the rise...

A consumer activist Thursday filed a complaint against America’s New England Brewing Company, which sparked a controversy by using a picture of Mahatma Gandhi on its beer cans and selling them in certain parts of India. Consumer Guidance Society of India media cell chief Viveck Shettyy lodged the co...

The Supreme Court Monday declined to entertain a plea seeking to rename India as Bharat and asked the petitioner to approach an appropriate authority with its plea. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu asked the petitioner to first make an appropriate representation before an author...

A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Delhi high court yesterday seeking a ban of the word “fanny” from promotional materials for, and songs, title and dialogue in the Bollywood film Finding Fanny , because of the “vulgar word ‘fanny’”, reported IANS . The petition filed by Nandini Tiw...