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CNN anchor Don Lemon sued Elon Musk on Thursday, saying that the billionaire entrepreneur refused to pay him after a partnership with the X social media platform got shelved. The lawsuit was filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco, a legal filing showed. X canceled its partnership with Lemon in March after he said Musk would be his first guest in an interview.

Supreme Court has sought response from the government, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), National Cooperative Exports Ltd and others on a plea challenging validity of two notifications prohibiting the export of non-basmati white rice since July 20. The petitioner, Rika Global Impex Ltd, has also challenged the DGFT's notification of September last year allowing export of 75,000 MT of non-basmati white rice to the United Arab Emirates only through the National Co-operative Exports Ltd. A Bench led by Justice B.V. Nagarathna also issued notice to the customs department on Rika’s petition alleging that the notifications were «ultra vires» to the Foreign Trade Policy, 2023 and liable to be set aside on account of «doctrine of legitimate expectation.”

bail plea of an SUV driver, arrested for his alleged role in drowning of three civil services aspirants in the basement of a coaching centre. During the proceedings, the Delhi Police told the court that they have decided to drop harsher charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against Manuj Kathuria, the SUV driver. Additional Sessions Judge Rakesh Kumar was hearing an appeal against the denial of bail to Kathuria by a magisterial court on Wednesday. «The bail is allowed,» the judge said.

The recent federal lawsuits against famous short seller Andrew Left draw attention to the roles that financial influencers have in guiding investors’ decision making – and the wide range in the quality of the information available online.

The mistress of a Texas Ponzi schemer who advertised on Christian radio programs was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison, according to a statement from the district attorney of Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth and Arlington.

The Michigan Supreme Court has overruled the Legislature and reinstated major changes to the state’s minimum wage and sick leave laws

tax evasion related to work down by their overseas offices, a government source said on Thursday, a day after Infosys was slapped with a $4 billion tax demand. In serving its highest-ever tax demand on Infosys, the government accused India's second-largest tech services company of evading taxes and sought Rs 32,000 crore ($3.8 billion), or almost all its revenue for the quarter ended June 30. Infosys said late on Wednesday it had received «pre-show cause» notices from the tax authorities but believed the relevant taxes had been paid. The company said in a statement it had paid its dues and is in compliance with central and state regulations.

A father and son accused of planning a terrorist attack in Toronto had filmed a video of themselves holding weapons in front of the ISIS flag, sources told Global News.

Donald Trump falsely suggested to the country's largest annual gathering of Black journalists on Wednesday that his Democratic rival Kamala Harris had previously downplayed her Black heritage.

income tax (I-T) notices loom over the next one month amid fears that many could slip through the tax net.

The judge who presided in the class-action lawsuit filed by “Sunday Ticket” subscribers against the NFL said the jury did not follow his instructions in determining damages

Arijit Singh, the Bombay High Court has recently restrained a clutch of AI firms and individuals from providing a tool to convert anyone’s voice into the Bollywood playback singer’s voice. He has approached the court to protect his personality rights.

The owners of twelve Pennsylvania casinos are asking the state’s highest court to declare that a tax on slot machine revenue is unconstitutional because the state doesn’t impose it broadly on cash-paying electronic game terminals known as skill games t...

P Chidambaram said the entire exercise of enacting the new criminal laws was wasteful and 95 percent of the criminal procedure has been copied and pasted.

Court on Wednesday directed SpiceJet Ltd's chief financial officer to appear before it on August 8, if the airline failed to make the balance payment of Rs 20 crore to its engine lessors--Team France 01 SAS and Sunbird France 02 SAS.

Luno, a crypto exchange licensed by the Securities Commission Malaysia, is launching its third crypto staking, this time, for Solana. Scarlett Chai, Luno’s country manager, noted that the exchange has already released the teaser of the launch.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not definitively classified Solana (SOL) as a non-security, despite retracting its request for a court ruling on the matter as part of its ongoing lawsuit against Binance.

Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar has directed all the departments concerned not to make payments to contractors engaged for desilting of drains unless a third-party audit of such wok is completed. The move has come in the wake of the tragic deaths of three civil services aspirants after water from a flooded drain gushed into the library of the basement of Rau's IAS Study Circle in Old Rajinder Nagar on Saturday.

Munshi Premchand, a towering figure in Indian literature. Known for his Hindustani literature, Premchand's work vividly portrays colonial India through a realistic lens. His contributions to Hindi and Urdu fiction have left an indelible mark on the literary world.

Delhi High Court on Wednesday pulled up authorities over the deaths of three UPSC aspirants who drowned in the basement of a coaching centre, saying such tragedies are bound to happen when there is no collection of taxes due to a "freebies culture". A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Manmohan said a «strange probe» was going on with police action against the passerby who drove a car but no action against MCD officials.

Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz are getting the hang of this doubles thing, improving to 2-0 as a team at the Paris Olympics and moving into the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-7 (2), 10-2 match tiebreaker victory over Tallon Griekspoor and Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands on Tuesday. Playing a day after Nadal's singles loss to rival Novak Djokovic and Alcaraz's win against Griekspoor, the old-and-young Spanish duo, wearing polo shirts in slightly different shades of red, didn't look like a pairing that never had played together until this event.