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Abdulaziz Almuzaini whose animated show on OTT platform Netflix has won laurels is now facing the prospects of a long prison term on the charges of terrorism. His animated series on Netflix is known for breaking social taboos related to the kingdom. However, an anti-terrorism court deemed certain tweets of his to be an act of terror and has now sentenced him to a prison term. This has raised concerns among various human rights groups who have called for his unconditional release. He had recently secured a contract from Netflix to work on his content which is popular across the world.

Kiren Rijiju today announced that the Budget Session of the Parliament will commence on and continue till August 22.

Russia is seeing an increase in the number of crypto bribery cases where corrupt individuals receive payment in tokens such as Bitcoin (BTC), lawyers say.

The Supreme Court is taking up an e-cigarette case

A woman from China has been arrested at a Vermont lake bordering Quebec for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak, according to Border Patrol agents.

Delhi High Court on Monday reserved the order on a plea by Arvind Kejriwal's close aide Bibhav Kumar seeking direction to declare his arrest by Delhi Police as illegal. The bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna after hearing both sides at length decided to reserve the order. Appearing for Bibhav, Senior Advocate N Hariharan submitted that the FIR was registered after a delay of three days.

The new criminal laws replace the Indian Penal Code of 1860, the 1973 Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act of 1872, and came into effect last week. Here are the key new provisions:

The Supreme Court has opened the door to new, broad challenges to regulations long after they take effect, the third blow in a week to federal agencies

South Korea's government has announced it will abandon its plan to suspend the licenses of striking junior doctors to resolve the country’s long medical impasse

The Supreme Court is keeping a hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users

A Malaysian court has dismissed a bid by imprisoned former Prime Minister Najib Razak to serve his remaining corruption sentence under house arrest

finance ministry has asked various ministries, departments and public sector enterprises to avoid the arbitration process in their future contract and use the mediation to settle any disputes. It has also advised various ministries and departments to form a high level committee consisting of a retired judge, a retired high ranking officer and a technical expert for mediation in case of ongoing contract dispute and settle the matter amicably. The move is another attempt by the government to reduce insignificant litigation and to de-clog the Judiciary. “Government departments/ entities/ agencies should avoid and/ or amicably settle as many disputes as possible using mechanisms available in the contract,” said a recently released guidelines issued by the department of expenditure regarding arbitration and mediation in contracts of domestic public procurement.

LIC policy after a few years, you get a portion of the premiums back as surrender value. Life-cover benefit stops immediately. However, a new player has entered the market with a claim of offering a potentially “more attractive” alternative. ACESO Endowment Services recently launched Assignment of Life Insurance Policies or ALIP, a one-of-a-kind programme designed especially for LIC policyholders contemplating surrendering their policies.

government to grant maternity leave to a surrogate mother, saying that leave privileges shouldn't depend on how a person became a mother. A single-judge bench ruled in favour of a Orissa Finance Service (OFS) officer, granting her 180 days maternity leave after she became a parent through surrogacy. «Maternity leave should be granted to employees who become mothers through surrogacy to ensure treatment and support for all new mothers, irrespective of how they become parents,» Justice S K Panigrahi ruled.

PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy were on Friday handed easy groups for the Paris Games beginning on July 26. Sindhu, who won the silver medal at the Rio Games and followed that with a bronze in Tokyo Olympics, has been seeded 10th. The World number 13 has been drawn in Group M of the women's singles alongside Kristin Kuuba of Estonia (WR 75) and Maldives' Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq. (WR 111). While Sindhu, who is vying for a third Olympic medal, has a relatively easy group, she could face China's sixth seed He Bing Jiao in the round of 16.

New York judge on Tuesday delayed Donald Trump's sentencing for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star until Sept. 18, after the former U.S. president asked for a chance to argue he should have been immune from prosecution. The sentencing had previously been set for July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention begins in Milwaukee on July 15. Trump is expected to be his party's nominee to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 election. Trump faces an uphill battle getting the hush money conviction overturned, since much of the conduct at issue in the case predated his time in office. Trump's lawyers on Monday asked Justice Juan Merchan to allow them to argue his conviction in New York state court in Manhattan should be overturned due to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on July 1 that presidents are entitled to immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. Prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said Trump's argument was «without merit,» but agreed to delay the sentencing to give Trump the chance to make his case. A Manhattan jury on May 30 found him guilty of falsifying business records to cover up his former lawyer Michael Cohen's $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about an alleged 2006 sexual encounter until after the 2016 election, when Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.

A former investment advisor has been found liable for defrauding members of his religious community out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through a years-long deception, according to the SEC.

When Natasha Craft first got a Yotta banking account in 2021, she loved using it so much she told her friends to sign up.

Mumbai police has arrested Mihir Shah, the main accused in the Worli hit-run-case. Shah (24) fled from the scene of crime and has been absconding since Sunday. Police sources told ET that Shah was arrested from Shahpur on the outskirts of Mumbai. According to the police, around 5.25 am on Sunday, near Worli, Shah rammed his speeding BMW into a scooter on which a couple was travelling. The woman, identified as Kaveri Nakhwa, was dragged for around 100 meters on the bonnet of the car, leading to her death. Her husband, Pradeep, has been injured. By the evening, the city police arrested Rajesh Shah (Shiv Sena leader of the Eknath Shinde faction) and their family friend-cum-driver, Rajrishi Bisawat in the case.

Michigan University have now got an option of suing the US Government over activities by ICE agents which involved them getting duped of thousands of dollars in tuition fees. This was made possible following a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, who have ruled in favor of the students who had been arrested by ICE agents for studying at University of Farmington in Farmington Hills.

Hathras claimed the lives of 121 people, the Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of the Sikandra Rao division of the district submitted a prime facie report to the District Magistrate of Hathras on Wednesday. The prime facie report suggests that the stampede occurred as devotees rushed to seek blessing from 'Bhole Baba', the preacher at the religious congregation Satsang, as he was about to leave the venue after the prayer. The preacher 'Bhole Baba' identified as Suraj Pal is also known by the names of Narayan Sakar Hari and Jagat Guru Vishwahari.