-The Telegraph Delhi High Court today refused to stay criminal proceedings against Yahoo India which had challenged a lower court order summoning it for allegedly hosting objectionable content. Justice Suresh Kait declined to pass an order and fixed March 1 for the next appearance, saying he would hear the case before the trial court does on March 13. Arvind Nigam, the counsel for Yahoo India, today claimed that the company’s name did not...

-The Hindu Following a Delhi court order, Google on Tuesday said it has removed from its Indian sites content that were found ‘objectionable' by the court. “We only removed specific content that was identified or was the subject of the court's order from local domains of Search, YT (YouTube), Blogger and Orkut,” the United States-based Internet giant said in a statement. “This step is in accordance with Google's long standing policy of responding...

Of the 22 companies summoned by a Delhi civil court over objectionable content on their websites, only Google India submitted today that it had removed certain contentious pages. Facebook, Yahoo! India and Microsoft said there was no cause for action against them. In its affidavit, Facebook told the court that it does not control or operate the servers that host the website at www.facebook.com, which are located in the US. Google...

-PTI Facebook India on Monday filed its compliance report before the Delhi court which had ordered it and 21 other websites to remove objectionable content from their websites. Google India also told the court that it has removed certain web pages from the Internet on which the petitioners raised objections. Meanwhile, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft told the court that they have no role to play in the case and there is no cause...

—PTI Less than a week after a similar move by micro-blogging site Twitter, Internet major Google has unveiled plans to make content on its blogger platform selectively available, depending on the local rules of each country. Google is the latest entity to come out with the option to restrict online content amid a raging debate over moves by many countries, including India, to enforce regulations on the internet. Google, which launched its blogging...