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SEBI) and the country’s two stock exchanges –National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the Supreme Court on Monday set aside a Bombay High Court order that imposed a cost of Rs 80 lakh on them for “illegally” freezing the demat accounts of two Mumbai residents Dr Pradeep Mehta and his son Neil Pradeep Mehta. Their demat accounts were erroneously frozen in 2017 as Pradeep Mehta happened to be one of the promoters of Shrenuj & Co at one point of time. Shrenuj could not file its quarterly earnings for April-June, July-September and October-December in 2016.

U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has stirred controversy with a proposal to tax unrealizedcapital gains for the wealthiest Americans. The plan has come under fire for both political and practical reasons — and raised questions about whether the policy could make its way to Canada.

If free speech is a measure of a modern liberal democracy, Brazil is in trouble. A crackdown on expression and the denial of due process for those who contradict the state’s version of the truth dates back to 2020. Now it’s getting worse.

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A Lebanese judge has ruled that the country’s former central bank chief will remain in jail while facing charges of embezzling tens of millions of dollars from state coffers

One month after a judge declared Google’s search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech giant faces another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company

Jannik Sinner produced a brutal display of baseline power as he became the first Italian man to win the U.S. Open with a 6-3 6-4 7-5 win over American Taylor Fritz in the final on Sunday. Sinner held aloft his arms in celebration after breaking Fritz to clinch the title and cheers rang around Arthur Ashe Stadium, even though home fans had hoped to see Fritz end a 21-year U.S. men's Grand Slam drought. Sinner was under a cloud of controversy at the start of the tournament after revelations that he tested positive twice for an anabolic agent in March but avoided a ban. An independent tribunal accepted his claim that the positive tests were the result of an unintentional contamination.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) will focus more on restoration of assets and properties to people defrauded by wrongdoers booked by the agency under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) besides expediting the conclusion of its investigations, people aware of the development told ET. The top brass of the federal agency recently held meetings to discuss the issue and take a conscious decision to ensure restitution of assets to victims, they said. ED officials are also identifying cases in which restitution of assets can be expedited, they said.

Parliament security breach accused wanted to discredit India's democracy, gain instant global fame, usurp power and achieve «richness and glory» by targeting the «very symbol of democracy», according to the chargesheet filed in the court by Delhi Police. The accused first met on social media and planned their move for nearly two years before executing it last year on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attack. According to the chargesheet, a source said, their first in-person meeting was held in February, 2022 at Mysuru. Citing from the chargesheet, sources told PTI, that in total they held five meetings in Mysuru, Gurugram and Delhi to decided finalise their plan and arrive at a modus operandi. The chargesheet, spread over 1,000 pages, was filed before the Patiala House Court in June and the court took its cognisance last month. A supplementary was filed in July.

Prakash Singh case. State governments have been loath to implement the order because it would mean political leaders relinquishing personal control over the coercive apparatus that they covet. As much as these structural reforms are desirable, we need to think of other politically feasible reforms that take us in the right direction.

celebrities are turning to the Copyright Act and the Information Technology Act to prevent abuse of their personality rights through generative artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deepfakes, in the absence of specific laws to combat this escalating concern. Legal experts say the proliferation of deepfakes, a type of generative AI, poses significant threats to the personality rights of celebrities. Deepfake content, generated by AI, appears genuine but is entirely fabricated. In a landmark intellectual property rights (IPR) case involving singer Arijit Singh, the Bombay High Court recently granted an ad-interim exparte injunction against multiple defendants, including Codible Ventures LLP, for the unauthorised use of AI and voice-cloning technologies to replicate the singer's voice.

Taylor Fritz became the first American man since 2009 to reach a Grand Slam final on Friday, setting up a US Open title showdown against world number one Jannik Sinner. Fritz, the world number 12, twice fought back to defeat compatriot Frances Tiafoe 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 in his semi-final. Australian Open champion Sinner became the first Italian man to make the New York final with a 7-5, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 win over an ailing Jack Draper of Britain.

RG Kar hospital Sandip Ghosh has been operating a "criminal nexus" along with the other «co-accused» for «wrongful gains», according to initial findings of the CBI's probe into financial irregularities at the medical establishment here, an officer claimed on Saturday. The central probe agency had also placed the findings before a special court here during a hearing earlier in the week, he said. The CBI had arrested Ghosh, two vendors, and his security person for their alleged involvement in financial irregularities at the state-run hospital, where the rape-murder of a young doctor has triggered nationwide protests. «These (two) vendors were known to Ghosh since he was with the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital. We have found that they granted the contracts of RGKMC&H (RG Kar Medical College and Hospital) only because of their proximity with Ghosh,» the officer said.

Puja Khedkar from Indian Administrative Service with immediate effect, reported PTI quoting official sources. Khedkar has been accused of cheating and wrongly availing Other Backward Classes (OBC) and disability quota benefits to ensure her selection in the service. She has denied all allegations. The central government, vide order dated September 6, 2024, discharged Khedkar from the Indian Administrative Service under Rule 12 of IAS (Probation) Rules, 1954, with immediate effect, the sources said. The rules allow the central government to discharge probationers from service if they fail «to pass the re-examination...» or «if the central government is satisfied that the probationer was ineligible for recruitment to the Service or is unsuitable for being a member of the Service», among others.

Delhi court is likely to take cognisance of a supplementary charge sheet against former railway minister Lalu Prasad, his son and former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav and eight others in alleged land for jobs scam, on September 13. Special Judge Vishal Gogne on Saturday fixed the matter for the next week after noting that no further clarification was required from the ED on the matter. The final report was filed before the court by the ED on August 6. The ED filed its case based on an FIR lodged by the CBI.

loan fraud case against an insolvent automotive equipment manufacturing company, the ED said Saturday. The action comes after the federal agency arrested Amtek Group promoter Arvind Dham in July. The company is under liquidation. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) booked a case against the company and its promoters under various sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), taking cognisance of a CBI FIR and a direction issued to it by the Supreme Court in February to probe the case. The IDBI Bank and the Bank of Maharashtra had filed a CBI complaint against the accused for «illegally diverting» bank loans and causing loss to these lenders, the ED said in a statement. The bank «fraud» is estimated to be about Rs 27,000 crore.

Department of Justice plans to issue an outline by December on what Alphabet's Google must do to restore competition after a judge earlier found the company illegally monopolized the market for online search, prosecutors said at a court hearing in Washington on Friday. Prosecutors did not detail what remedy they will propose, but Justice Department attorney David Dahlquist said it should be comprehensive and take into account how Google plans to integrate artificial intelligence into search. Since the case was brought, Google has rebranded its Bard AI product to Gemini, Dahlquist said.

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documents requested following the start of insolvency proceedings. Byju's said its unable to provide the documents as the materials were requested from the firm's board, which has been suspended due to the insolvency proceedings. BDO's email requesting documents was addressed to a suspended board, not to the insolvency professional in control of the firm at the time, the edtech firm said.

Workers seeking to ban smoking in Atlantic City’s casinos are asking an appeals court to consider their request, saying a lower court judge who dismissed their lawsuit did so in error