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A former top official at South Africa’s state-owned passenger railway company has received a 15-year concurrent prison sentence for faking his engineering qualifications and other cases of fraud

According to a recent ABC News/Ipsos survey, which was released on Sunday, Harris led Trump among all adults and registered voters 50 per cent to 46 per cent. Harris had a 52 per cent to 46 per cent advantage over Trump among likely voters. The results are comparable and statistically unchanged from an August poll, according to pollsters. Before the convention, an ABC News, Washington Post, and Ipsos poll found that among registered voters, Harris had 49% support and Trump had 45%. Everybody's eyes were on the polls that were made public after the Democratic National Convention last month to see if the vice president would gain ground after the convention, as some candidates have in the past. Starting on August 23, the day following the convention's last night, a poll was conducted. Pollsters noted that Harris widened the gender gap, even though most of the numbers were essentially unchanged from before the Democratic convention. Regarding women, Harris had a 13-point advantage (54% versus 41%), while Trump had a 5-point advantage (51% versus 46%). According to pollsters, Harris had a 6-point advantage over women before the convention.

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The application said that duty personnel are facing a lot of difficulties in performing duties due to non-availability of accommodation, security gadgets and paucity of transportation. Centre, in its application in the Supreme Court, was seeking direction to West Bengal to extend full co-operation to the CISF and ensure full compliance, in letter and spirit, of the order dated August 20 or face contempt proceedings for wilful non-compliance of the order.

Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Sahara group to submit a “scheme” for the sale of its immovable, domestic and offshore properties by Thursday. This is to raise money for refund of more than Rs 24,029 crore collected by its two entities — Sahara India Real Estate Corporation Ltd (SIRECL) and Sahara Housing Investment Corporation Ltd (SHICL) — from 3.3 crore bond investors, with an interest of 15% from March 2008, as directed by the apex court in a series of orders since August 2012. A bench comprising Justices Sanjeev Khanna, Bela Trivedi and MM Sundresh told Sahara’s senior advocate Kapil Sibal that “more than 10 years have passed, and you still haven't deposited the money… SEBI is seeking the remaining Rs 10,000 crore. How will you muster the remaining Rs 10,000 crore?” Sibal said that Sahara group did not have a fair opportunity to sell its properties to pay the balance amount and no one wanted to “touch its properties.”

Shobha Karandlaje on Tuesday filed an affidavit before the Madras High Court, apologising to the people of Tamil Nadu for her remarks made in light of the Rameshwaram Cafe blast in Bengaluru earlier this year. Post the March 1 low intensity blast at the popular eatery in Bengaluru, Karandlaje had linked the people of Tamil Nadu with the incident and she was booked by the Madurai police over the matter. She had moved the court seeking to quash the criminal proceedings against her. In her affidavit filed before the bench of Justice G Jayachandran, Karandlaje said the remarks made about the people of TN was done «without any intention» to hurt their sentiments and feelings.

Sandip Ghosh was remanded in eight-day police custody by Alipore Judges Court on Tuesday. This followed his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on charges of financial misconduct. Three others were also detained alongside Ghosh, including his security guard and two vendors who supplied materials to the hospital. The arrest is connected to the alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where the body of a female medic, a victim of rape and murder, was discovered on August 9. The CBI's investigation stems from the Calcutta High Court's August 23 order, transferring the case from a state-formed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to the federal agency. Ghosh was the second person arrested in connection with this case, following the earlier detention of a civic volunteer by the Kolkata Police. The opposition BJP asserted that this development exposed efforts by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government to cover up the former principal's wrongdoings. TMC leader Kunal Ghosh acknowledged that the state health department could have acted sooner to avoid the current situation.

Olympian wrestler Vinesh Phogat's political future continues to build, especially after the recent meeting of the Congress Central Election Committee (CEC). Following the meeting, AICC Haryana in-charge Deepak Babaria announced that the party's list of candidates for the upcoming Haryana polls will be released within two days. Babaria also stated that the party would confirm on Tuesday whether Vinesh Phogat will contest the Haryana election on a Congress ticket. Vinesh Phogat made headlines recently after her disqualification from the 50 kg gold medal bout at the Paris Olympics for being 100 grams overweight. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) also rejected her petition to be awarded a joint silver.

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Coco Gauff's 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 loss to Emma Navarro in the U.S. Open's fourth round: Gauff wound up with more double-faults, 19, than winners, 14. It was the latest in a series of early-for-her exits in recent weeks, including bowing out in the third round at the Paris Olympics, then going 1-2 at hard-court tuneup events before arriving in New York. «I feel like there's 70 other players in the draw that would love to have the summer that I had, even though it's (the) least, probably, (I've) done well during this time of the year,» said the No. 3-seeded Gauff, who went 18-1 during the North American swing on hard courts 12 months ago, including the run to her first Grand Slam title. «So many people want to be in the fourth round. So many people want to make the Olympics. So many people want to be flag bearer. It's perspective.» The 20-year-old from Florida did fight her way back into the match with a four-game run in which she claimed 14 of 17 points and grabbed the second set.

Elon Musk, who is now fighting to maintain his social media platform X in one of the biggest democracies in the world, made the disparaging comparison to the Harry Potter character. It makes sense that Alexandre de Moraes would be compared to Voldemort given his dark, piercing gaze and shiny bald head. Mr.

A Brazilian Supreme Court panel has unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X nationwide

Hewlett Packard Enterprise says it won’t drop its U.K. claim for damages against the estate of British tech mogul Mike Lynch

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MNCs, including Microsoft India, Sumitomo Corporation India and AT Kearney India, the Delhi High Court on Monday quashed the final tax assessment orders that were passed against them without there being any draft assessment orders as mandated under Section 144C of the Income Tax Act 1961. It further said that the final assessment orders if framed after the prescribed time under Section 153 of the Act had expired are liable to be quashed on that ground additionally. Failure to frame a draft assessment order by the assessing officer would “clearly be violative of the mandatory prescriptions of Section 144C and the final order of assessment framed in violation thereof is liable to be viewed as a nullity,” a Division Bench comprising justices Yashwant Varma and Ravinder Dudeja said.

Delhi High Court has permanently restrained Taj Iconic Membership's managing director from using «Taj» name in its contents, corporate name, logo in a trademark suit filed by the Tata group of companies. The court directed the transfer of the domain name of Taj Iconic to IHCL. Justice Mini Pushkarna said "...it is apparent that the use of the various contents and photographs available on the plaintiff's (IHCL) website, by the defendant (Taj Iconic) in relation to business activities, has the effect of inducing the consumers and members of the trade to falsely believe that the defendant has a direct nexus or affiliation with the plaintiff.” “Further, the fraudulent and illegal trade activities of the defendant has also the effect of causing incalculable harm and injury to the business, goodwill and reputation associated with the plaintiff‟s associated mark,” the HC said, while directing the managing director of Taj Iconic to pay damages of to the tune of Rs 10 lakh and cost of Rs 5 lakh to IHCL, which is a part of the Tata group of companies.

Mike Lynch's estate in the UK. The US company had been seeking compensation over its acquisition of British tech firm Autonomy amid claims of fraud masterminded by its co-founder Mike Lynch to inflate the company's value. Lynch, who died in August when his yacht sank off the coast of Sicily, had denied any wrongdoings.

Madhabi Buch drawing salary post retirement from ICICI Bank, the private lender on Monday issued clarification by saying no salary or ESOPs were given to the SEBI chief. “ICICI Bank or its group companies have not paid any salary or granted any ESOPs to Ms. Madhabi Puri Buch after her retirement, other than her retiral benefits. It may be noted that she had opted for superannuation with effect from October 31, 2013," said ICICI bank in the statement. «All the payments made to Ms. Buch post her retirement had accrued to her during her employment phase with the ICICI Group. These payments comprise ESOPs and retiral benefits,» added the bank in the statement.

bail to an accused in a money laundering case and said that the power to arrest must be directly proportional to its checks and balances coupled with unambiguous regulations. Granting bail to Mangelal Sunil Agarwal, Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Dheeraj Mor noted that in a «very unpleasant situation», while the previous investigating officer had cited him as a witness, the next IO chose to arrest him based on the same evidence available on record. «The hallmark of investigation is its objectivity. Subjective interpretation of IO must be deprecated as it would make a supposed objective investigation dependent upon his uncontrolled whims and fancies, who has been conferred extreme power of arrest that leads to curtailing liberty of an individual,» the judge said in the order passed on August 31. «In these circumstances, it is apparent that one of the lOs was/is wrong and either acted upon the considerations extraneous to law for the reasons to be ascertained or he was incompetent to comprehend the facts of the case in proper perspective.

Caroline Wozniacki used to come to the U.S. Open all but certain that she would face one of the great players of her generation. For the former world No.

education to Indian students for overseas studies, the trust was spending for the charitable purpose of education outside India since the loan was given for spending on education outside India. Therefore, tax exemption was denied to the trust in respect of such loan scholarships given to students.