Senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, who has been one of Twitter’s more prolific and active lawyers (with 37,330 tweets as of 2015 and 98,000 followers more recently), has been banned from the platform and has sent a legal notice to the social media giant, according to The Print.

Chief Justice of India (CJI) _Dipak Misra_ on Monday hinted at possibly allowing journalists to publish news straight from courtrooms on Twitter from their mobile phones, live during case proceedings in the Supreme Court.

Columnist and author Chetan Bhagat called lawyer Dushyant Arora an “India hater” on Twitter sparking online controversy on the microblogging site, after Arora posted a column on blogging platform DailyO critical of Bhagat’s open letter to Kashmiri Youth. Arora, who is a regular tweeter with more tha...

India Today senior editor Gayatri Jayaraman has been live-tweeting diligently from the Mumbai sessions court in the Shakti Mills gang rape sentencing hearing today, at which the judge will decide whether the accused will get the death sentence.

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