The Karnataka High Court quashed proceedings initiated against the chief mentor of Infosys Technologies Ltd, N R Narayana Murthy, in a lower court on a complaint over his alleged remarks on the singing of the National Anthem.

Justice K Bhakthavatsala passed the order on a criminal petition filed by Murthy.

A private complaint was filed by the Karnataka Rakshana Vakeelara Vedike before the second additional city metropolitan magistrate, which passed the order on May 26, issuing summons to him.

The Vedike had alleged that Murthy had passed insulting remarks about the National Anthem during a press conference on April 8 after the then President A P J Abdul Kalam visited the company's Mysore campus.

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Microsoft Corp said on Monday its Web search business remains on a 'positive trajectory' with plans to roll out several updates over the next 12 months.

Kevin Johnson, President of Microsoft's platforms and services group, said the company is building on momentum after its Windows Live Search gained market share over competitors in the quarter ended in June.

"Over the next 12 months, we've got a very aggressive engineering plan with multiple releases of search coming forward. So, I think we are on a positive trajectory," Johnson said in an interview.

Microsoft lags far behind Google Inc and Yahoo Inc in Web search, the most lucrative slice of a rapidly growing online advertising market.

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