Courts Financial News

The Supreme Court is putting the Environmental Protection Agency’s air pollution-fighting “good neighbor” plan on hold while legal challenges continue

Police have clashed with protesters in Kenya’s capital Nairobi before planned protests against a contentious finance bill

One of the benefits often cited by small-business owners is the ability to write off various expenses for tax purposes. The misconception about what can be legitimately written off brings to mind one of my favourite Seinfeld episodes, The Package, in which Kramer convinces Jerry to say his stereo was broken during shipping to collect a $400 insurance payment from the post office.

SYDNEY—WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange landed in Australia as a free man for the first time in more than a decade, waved to supporters as he exited his airplane and then disappeared from public view. His immediate priorities: eating real food, playing with his children and going to swim in the ocean. But people close to Assange think he will eventually return to the public spotlight, fighting for press freedom, defining his legacy and promoting human rights.

Satire has long been accepted as a legitimate form of free speech, not constituting defamation. However, with the advent of deepfakes generated by various Generative AI software tools, whether content is parody or defamation is not limited to only the question of what is said, but now includes the question of whether the viewer can reasonably tell who said it.

Federer: Twelve Final Days, was less than riveting. In this rivalry, Alacaraz has thus far cornered the star power, starting with his tattoo that repeats the motto his grandfather gave him: cabeza, corazon y cajones (head, heart, balls) to his more than occasionally theatrical on-court demeanour.

Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the National Testing Agency (NTA) to file a reply to the notice against it by Xylem Learning App. The vacation bench of Justices Manoj Misra and SVN Bhatti also ordered to connect all related petitions to the same case.

Bhagwant Mann on Thursday said that AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal will not bow down no matter how much atrocities are committed on him. Mann's statement came a day after the Delhi chief minister was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a corruption case linked to the alleged excise scam. The Punjab chief minister also shared Kejriwal's picture in a post on X. This picture represents the struggle against dictatorship. Arvind Kejriwal will not bow down, no matter how much atrocities you commit. The CBI's arrest after the ED's bail is a blatant misuse of the CBI at the behest of the BJP," Mann posted in Hindi on X.

Kenya's president says he won’t sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes that prompted thousands of protesters to storm the parliament on Tuesday

Supreme Court reprimanded the Delhi government over the illegal felling of 1,100 trees in South Delhi's Reserve Forest Area without permission, Delhi's government has taken a firm stand on the issue. In response to the illegal felling of 1,100 trees in South Delhi's Reserve Forest Area without Supreme Court permission, Delhi's government has taken a firm stand, the Environment Ministry said in a press release. «Concerned about the significant environmental damage, Environment and Forest Minister Gopal Rai held an urgent meeting with Forest Department officials on Wednesday, demanding all relevant records and a status report on actions taken so far. The Forest Department has been instructed to provide this information by 11 am on Thursday.,» an official release stated.

WikiLeaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange walked free after signing a plea deal with the United States, the US State Department termed his actions for which he pleaded guilty had put the lives of people, especially Washington's allies and diplomats, at risk. US State Department Mathew Miller also pointed that Assange served as a «conduit» for Russian intelligence interfering in the US presidential elections.

Julian Assange who is the founder of the controversial Wikileaks has been set free by a US court in the Northern Mariana Islands. This has ended his long legal battle with the US. The Wikileaks founder has been accused of accessing classified information pertaining to the US and releasing them in an illegal manner. He has also been accused of recruiting individuals with access to this important information and illegally transmitting it to his servers. This information had damaged the relationship of the US with many of its partners including France, India and Japan among others.

GST Intelligence (DGGI) has sent fresh summons to online gaming companies, including Delta Corp, seeking details of the cashback given to the players from October onwards. The agency detected reimbursements of taxed money back to players as cashback in a separate promo account by online gaming companies post implementation of the 28% GST (goods and services tax) on the full entry level betting amount. The DGGI Gurgaon has sent summons for a period between October 2023 and June 15, 2024, ET has learnt.

Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra that challenged the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) summons to appear before the capital markets regulator. The division bench of Justice KR Shriram and Justice Jitendra Jain disposed of the writ petition in an oral order after the Sebi informed the court that it was withdrawing the first summons directing Subhas Chandra to be present. However, Chandra will have to furnish the documents sought by the regulator through a communication dated March 27. Chandra, chairman emeritus of Zee Entertainment, was represented by senior counsels Ravi Kadam and Prateek Seksaria.

NIA) on Wednesday secured the conviction and sentencing of two members of the proscribed Bangladeshi terror outfit, Ansal-al-lslam, over a conspiracy to unleash terrorist attacks in India. They have been identified as Bangladeshi nationals, Mahmud Hassan @ Shariful Hassan and Mohamad Sayad Hussain @ Mohamad Sa'ad Hussain @ Sohan Molla @ Shihab Hossain. The NIA Special Court, Aizawl, Mizoram, has sentenced both to Imprisonment of five years each, along with fine of Rs 10,000 or one month in default, after finding them quilty under various provisions of IPC, Foreigners Act and UA(P) Act.

ruled the 45-year-old’s employment made her a “member” of IRFAN-Canada, which it said had engaged in terrorism.She has appealed the Jan. 12 decision to the Federal Court.Canadian authorities stripped IRFAN-Canada of its charity status in 2011 after federal auditors found it had sent $14.6 million to groups “associated with Hamas.”The Canada Revenue Agency also said videos found at the group’s office near Toronto glorified “martyrdom” and portrayed the Palestinian conflict as a religious war.In 2014, the government placed IRFAN-Canada on its list of terrorist entities for using its “status as a charitable organization to fund Hamas.”Before arriving in Toronto from Venezuela in 2016 and claiming refugee status, Sarassra worked part-time for IRFAN-Canada in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.Her role was to distribute money to children whose fathers had died.

Bulgaria says it plans to file charges in absentia against Ruja Ignatova for one of the largest crypto fraud schemes in history and will take steps to seize her assets it said were illegally acquired

Kenya’s president came to power by appealing to the common people, describing himself as a “hustler” and vowing relief from economic pain

A U.S. appeals court says that Smith & Wesson must comply with a subpoena from New Jersey officials investigating whether the gun-maker engaged in any deceptive advertising

One of the co-founders of an Atlanta-based venture capital firm that supports women of color has stepped down as chief operating officer

The Supreme Court has sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security