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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee made on Wednesday and issues related to RG Kar Medical College & Hospital. Later, Bose left for New Delhi. «We have demanded imposition of President's Rule in Bengal,» Sukanta Majumdar told ET. BJP also started a seven-day dharna on the RG Kar issue after the Calcutta High Court granted them permission on Wednesday. Congress, led by WBPCC president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury also hit the streets and organised a rally from College Square to Shyam Bazar. Several other rallies have been called in Kolkata by women protesters and citizens.

Assam government on Thursday said it has approved an oil exploration project near Hoollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary by the Vedanta group and the proposal has been forwarded to the Centre for consideration. Replying to a query by Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, Debabrata Saikia, Forest Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said the State Board of Wildlife (SBWL) has approved a proposal to check the possibility of oil exploration around 13 km from the sanctuary. «We have forwarded it to the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) and they will make a final decision… Before the final approval, we will discuss with experts,» the minister said. Saikia criticised the government's decision and said environmentalists have opposed the idea of giving oil exploration permission in and around the forest.

Department of Telecom has dropped the penalty clause on telecom entities for violation of interception norms under the new rules notified recently. The Telecommunications (Procedures and Safeguards for Lawful Interception of Messages) Rules, 2024, notified on Wednesday, will not be applicable to demonstrations and testing of interception systems by the central government. Under the new interception rules, the DoT has removed provisions related to fines and suspension of telecom licences for violation of licence conditions pertaining to maintenance of secrecy, confidentiality of information and unauthorised interception of communications. The new rules, however, mandate telecom entities involved in the process of interception to ensure that «adequate and effective internal safeguards are implemented to prevent any unauthorised interception of messages» and «confidentiality and secrecy is maintained in the matter of interception of messages».

SEOUL—Dozens of South Korean children sued their government over inadequate policies targeting climate change, arguing their rights to live in a clean environment had been violated. On Thursday, they earned a major legal victory. South Korea, home to major semiconductor, battery and electric-vehicle makers, has pledged by the end of this decade to reduce carbon emissions by 40% from a 2018 benchmark.

Prosecutors in Thailand has indicted a former national police chief in connection with an alleged cover-up of a 2012 traffic accident involving the Thai heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune that killed a police officer

Jaypee Infratech Ltd (JIL) through insolvency process, has identified 2,552 acre of land parcels for lenders of the bankrupt realty firm in accordance with the resolution plan. On June 4, Suraksha Group took control of JIL following the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal's (NCLAT) decision on May 24, upholding its bid to acquire JIL and constituted a new board. According to sources, Suraksha Group has earmarked 2,372 acre of land for assenting lenders and 180 acre, separately, for ICICI. The group had appointed real estate consultant CBRE to help in land identification process. JIL had around 6,250 acre of land in Delhi-NCR and adjoining areas. In its resolution plan, which was approved by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in March last year, Suraksha Group has offered bankers more than 2,500 acre of land to partly settle their dues.

A federal appeals court has revived Sarah Palin's libel case against The New York Times

Google an illegal monopoly in a landmark ruling this month, it was not immediately clear what consequences the world's largest search engine provider would face. But one result is coming into focus: Google's antitrust defeat opened the door to more lawsuits. On Wednesday, Yelp, the popular online service that lets people find and review local businesses, sued Google in federal court in San Francisco. Yelp claims that Google used its dominance as a general, or all-purpose, search engine to gain an unfair advantage in local search services. Yelp is seeking unspecified monetary damages and an order for Google to stop its anticompetitive practices in a jury trial.

2024 Paralympics, with multiple events scheduled across various sports on the first day. The day kicks off with para badminton, where Palak Kohli and Suhas Yathiraj will face off against Nitesh Kumar and Thulasamithi Murugesan in the mixed doubles category at 12:00 PM IST. Following this, Sivarajan Solaimalai and Nithya Sre Sivan will take the court at 12:40 PM IST. As the afternoon unfolds, attention will shift to the Women's Singles events. Manasi Joshi, competing in the SL3 category, and Mandeep Kaur in the general Women's Singles, both have matches scheduled for 2:00 PM IST.

A Hong Kong court will deliver its verdict in a sedition case against two former editors of a shuttered news outlet on Thursday

The outbreak of covid in 2020 sparked a global war against a deadly new virus. Away from the spotlight, it also triggered a grand domestic battle between advocates of allopathy and Ayurveda. The trigger was Patanjali Ayurved’s quick launch of Coronil, a purported ‘cure for corona’ that drew public attention to dodgy claims and protests from allopathic doctors.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered billionaire Elon Musk on Wednesday to name a legal representative for his messaging platform X in Brazil within 24 hours or face the site's suspension in the country, a court decision showed. Earlier this month, X announced it would close its operations and fire its staff in Brazil due to what it called «censorship orders» from Moraes, while adding the firm's service would remain available for users in Brazil. The Supreme Court posted a screenshot of Wednesday's court decision on its X account, tagging Musk's and X's Global Government Affairs accounts.

OpenAI has responded in California federal court to allegations that it misused the work of authors including Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates and comedian Sarah Silverman to train its artificial-intelligence language model. The Microsoft-backed AI company said in an answer to the complaints on Tuesday that it makes fair use of copyrighted content to teach models like the one underlying its popular chatbot ChatGPT to create original material. «The models learn, as we all do, from what has come before,» OpenAI said in its filing. «The fair use defense exists for precisely that reason: to encourage and allow the development of new ideas that build on earlier ones.»

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice is threatening to shut down the local activities of X, formerly Twitter, unless its billionaire owner Elon Musk names an in-country legal representative within 24 hours

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A Swiss criminal court has convicted two top managers of a Saudi oil company facing charges including fraud and money laundering in a scam that swiped at least $1.8 billion from a Malaysian state-owned investment fund

The Supreme Court is keeping on hold the latest multibillion-dollar student debt relief plan from the Biden administration, while multiple lawsuits make their way through lower courts

Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday granted default bail to 50 accused in a case related to the Haldwani violence in February on the ground that no charge sheet was filed even after 90 days of the incident. On February 8 this year, violence erupted in Banbhoolpura area of Haldwani after the authorities demolished encroachments including a madrasa and a place meant for offering namaz within its precincts.

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former Indian Army personnel from Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district has been convicted and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment by an NIA special court here in a Pakistan-operated espionage case. As per investigations, Saurabh Sharma, formerly a signalman in the Indian Army, was lured into the spying racket by a pseudonymous entity operated by Defence/ISI agents of Pakistan, said an official statement issued by the NIA on Wednesday. He had shared restricted and confidential secret information about the Indian Army with this pseudo entity, 'Neha Sharma', the statement said. The leaked information included sensitive details pertaining to Indian military installations, it said.

federal appeals court revived Sarah Palin's libel case against The New York Times on Wednesday, citing errors by a lower court judge, particularly his decision to dismiss the lawsuit while a jury was deliberating. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan wrote that Judge Jed S. Rakoff's decision in February 2022 to dismiss the lawsuit mid-deliberations improperly intruded on the jury's work. It also found that the erroneous exclusion of evidence, an inaccurate jury instruction and an erroneous response to a question from the jury tainted the jury's decision to rule against Palin. It declined, however, to grant Palin's request to force Rakoff off the case on grounds he was biased against her. The 2nd Circuit said she had offered no proof.