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board member, Omid Kordestani, sued the social media company owned by Elon Musk on Friday, claiming that the billionaire refused to cash out more than $20 million worth of shares. Kordestani, who joined Twitter's board in 2015 and helped oversee the sale of the company to Musk in 2022, received most of his compensation in stock. But after Musk bought the company, now called X, he refused to pay Kordestani for those shares, the lawsuit said. X «seeks to reap the benefits of Kordestani's seven years of service to Twitter without paying him for it,» said the suit, which was filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco.

Arthasastra, for instance, frowns on challenges to authority. Anyone who foments revolts, attempts to snatch power, or to instigate disaffection is, it tells us, to be burnt alive “from head to foot". This is for non-Brahmins, though; Brahmins were to be drowned.

High Court has directed the capital markets regulator to disclose the letter that exempted ICICI Securities from the reverse book-building process required for delisting. In a ruling on Wednesday, the court directed the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to provide the petitioner-ICICI Securities shareholder Aruna Vinod Modi-with a copy of the exemption letter, subject to a non-disclosure undertaking. The investor had moved the court, contesting Sebi's decision to grant parent ICICI Bank relaxation from rules on delisting the broking firm.

government on Friday made it clear that it is not going to introduce any provision of creamy layer in the SC and ST reservation, days after the Supreme Court had said that states have the power to sub-classify SC/STs and observed that they can also identify the creamy layer, even from the SC/STs, excluding them from the benefits. The Cabinet held wide discussions on the SC's order, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told reporters after the meeting today. Today, under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, wide discussions were held on this issue, Vaishnaw said. "...the well-thought opinion of the Cabinet is that the NDA government is committed and dedicated towards the provisions of the Constitution prepared by Baba Saheb Ambedkar. And as per the Constitution, there is no provision of creamy layer in SC and ST reservation. Cabinet's well-thought through decision is that the SC and ST reservation should be according to Baba Saheb's Constitution," Vaishnaw said.

Social network X has suspended its much-criticised harvesting of European users' personal data to train its artificial intelligence program, Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Friday. The DPC, which acts on behalf of the European Union, said in a statement that it «welcomes X's agreement to suspend its processing of the personal data contained in the public posts of X's EU/EEA users which it processed between 7 May 2024 and 1 August 2024, for the purpose of training its AI 'Grok'.» The DPC, which is working in collaboration with European regulators, has made an urgent High Court application for violation of EU rules on data protection (GDPR).

Delhi government hit by the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is expected to be back on track if his former deputy Manish Sisodia is restored to his previous position even though the process will take time, officers and constitutional experts said on Friday. Sisodia held portfolios of 18 departments including education, finance, excise, health and PWD among others besides being deputy of Kejriwal before his resignation on February 28 last year. The former deputy chief minister would take care of the Delhi government's functioning in absence of Kejriwal when he used to leave for annual sessions of vipassana meditation for a few days. The Supreme Court on Friday granted him bail in excise policy cases lodged by the CBI and ED.

Manish Sisodia walked out of Tihar Jail on Friday evening, after 17 months of imprisonment. The Supreme Court granted him bail in the CBI as well as the ED cases against him in the now-scrapped Delhi liquor policy case earlier on Friday. «Bharat mata ji jai! Inquilab Zindabad!» said the former deputy chief minister upon his release. «I got bail from the power of the Constitution...Kejriwal will also come out soon. Our fight is against dictatorship,» he added. «Ever since this order came in the morning, every inch of my skin has been feeling indebted to Babasaheb. I don't understand how will pay off this debt to Babasaheb,» he further said in his release speech.

life and liberty which is one of the most sacrosanct rights guaranteed by the Constitution, the Supreme Court said on Friday. The apex court rejected the preliminary objection raised by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that AAP leader Manish Sisodia cannot be permitted to file second set of special leave petitions to challenge the Delhi High Court's May 21 verdict which denied him bail in the excise policy cases. While granting bail to Sisodia in the corruption and money laundering cases linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, the top court noted the counsel appearing for probe agencies had argued that he should be relegated to approach the trial court afresh for seeking relief. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan referred to the apex court's June 4 order which had disposed of Sisodia's plea challenging the high court verdict. The top court had then said that Sisodia can revive his bail petitions after the ED and CBI file their final prosecution complaint and charge sheet respectively.

Court of Arbitration for Sports will start hearing Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat's appeal against her disqualification at the Paris Olympics today. Phogat's appeal includes a request for a joint silver medal after being found overweight following her semi-final victory in Paris. Senior advocate Haris Salve will represent Phogat during her hearing. The hearing is likely to start at 5:00 pm. Also Read: Catch all the live updates on Vinesh Phogat case hearing in CAS The 29-year-old wrestler missed the opportunity to compete for the gold after being disqualified for being overweight during the morning weigh-in on Wednesday. This followed her impressive performance the previous day, where she defeated the unbeaten Yui Susaki of Japan in her opening bout.

Puja Khedkar, on charges of threatening and obstructing a public servant in the discharge of duty in Pune district, officials said on Friday. The case was filed at the Bundgarden police station here on the basis of a complaint lodged by a tehsildar-rank officer from the Pune district collectorate, they said. «The complaint says that during Puja Khedkar's posting as an assistant collector, Dilip Khedkar allegedly used threatening language against tehsildar Dipak Akade, asking him to allot a cabin for his daughter even as he had no right to interfere in the administrative functioning,» an official said.

The Allahabad High Court had, on July 25, quashed the pleas filed by the Muslim side, stating that the petitions filed by the Hindu-side are «maintainable». Previously, the Allahabad HC

Delhi excise policy case, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia has been granted bail by the Supreme Court. Sisodia, former deputy CM of Delhi, was arrested by the ED in the money laundering case stemming from the CBI FIR on March 9, 2023. The senior AAP leader resigned from the Delhi cabinet on February 28, 2023.

NEET PG Hearing 2024 Live Updates: The Supreme Court will hear on Friday a plea seeking postponement of the NEET-PG examination, scheduled for August 11, which claimed that candidates have been allocated cities that are highly inconvenient to reach. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra on Thursday took note of lawyer Anas Tanwir's submissions on the issue.The plea said many candidates have been allocated cities which are highly inconvenient for them to reach.

Vinesh Phogat news LIVE: The Court of Arbitration for Sports will hear ace Indian wrestlerVinesh Phogat's plea against her disqualification at the Paris Olympics today, Friday. In her appeal, Phogat also requested a joint silver as she was found overweight after she won the semi-final in Paris.

Kazakhstan’s anti-money laundering agency says officials in the country have blocked illegal crypto transactions worth a total of $75.4 million.

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