Kodak sues Apple, BlackBerry on phone cameras

NEW YORK - Eastman Kodak Company is suing Apple and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) for infringement of its imaging technology by the two giants in digital cameras in their iPhone and BlackBerry devices.

Kodak sues Apple, RIM alleging patent violation

SAN FRANCISCO - Camera and film company Eastman Kodak said it had sued Apple and RIM, claiming that the camera technology used in iPhones and Blackberries violated one of its patents.

Gary Coleman, Utah man settle personal injury lawsuit over altercation in parking lot

Gary Coleman settles Utah man’s injury lawsuit

CJI in RTI law is issue of public importance, stresses AG

NEW DELHI - Both the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court believe that the issue whether the office of the chief justice of India comes within the ambit of the Right to Information Act is a matter of public importance and should be decided by the apex court, Attorney General Goolam E.Vahanvati said Thursday.

Apex court raises stink over CJI’s wife’s pocket money

NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court has locked horns with the government over denial of pocket money to Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan’s wife Nirmala Balakrishnan during one of her foreign jaunts with her husband last year.

Court orders police to probe killing of RTI activist

MUMBAI - In a significant development, the Bombay High Court Thursday suo moto ordered the Maharashtra government and the state police to probe the killing of Pune-based RTI activist Satish Shetty.

Case against Dikshit to continue, objections dismissed

NEW DELHI - The Delhi Lokayukta Thursday quashed the preliminary objections by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on the maintainability of the complaint filed by BJP leader Vijender Gupta charging her with misuse of public money.

Court dismisses plea over missing soldier

NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Thursday dismissed the plea of the son of a missing Indian soldier suspected to be in a Pakistani jail for 44 years after the government said they had failed to trace him.

Company Law Board chairman gets bail

NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Thursday granted bail to suspended chairman of Company Law Board R. Vasudevan in a graft case but restrained him from going outside the national capital.

Rathore deposits passport in court

CHANDIGARH - Former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore Thursday deposited his passport in a local court as part of the conditions it imposed while extending his post-conviction bail in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case till Feb 8.

Court lets Vishal Yadav out on bail for sister’s wedding (Second Lead)

NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Thursday suspended the sentence of Vishal Yadav, serving life imprisonment for killing Nitish Katara, and granted him interim bail till Jan 31 to enable him to attend his sister Sarika’s wedding.

Nigerian court hears lawsuits challenging ill president’s long absence abroad

Nigeria court hears lawsuits over leader’s absence

`Cuban government seeks to silence bloggers’

Havana, Jan 14 (IANS/EFE) Blogger Yoani Sanchez said Wednesday that Cuba’s President Raul Castro has begun to understand that he must eliminate or intimidate the creators of blogs in order to silence them, because he cannot bribe them with “a week in Varadero”, a coastal resort near Havana.

Lakhvi’s counsel fears attack from Indian ’spies’, seeks transfer of 26/11 case

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) has issued notices to the interior secretary, the attorney general of Pakistan and the Punjab advocate general on a petition moved by Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks.

Why is Habibullah still chief CIC, ask RTI activists

NEW DELHI - A group of Right to Information (RTI) activists has served a legal notice on the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) over Wajahat Habibullah continuing as chief information commissioner (CIC) three months after he reportedly resigned.