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BJP) workers staged a protest outside the Delhi Jal Board office in Delhi on Saturday. The police also used water cannons to disperse the people protesting the prevailing water crisis in the national capital. BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla attacked the AAP, saying that Haryana is sending enough water and the Supreme Court has also acknowledged this.

Russia has sent so many men to join its war in Ukraine that crime levels in the country fell soon after the invasion began. Now their return is starting to unleash a wave of offending. Crimes committed by servicemen that aren’t linked to the war increased by more than 20% last year, according to data from Russia’s Supreme Court. While the overall numbers are still small and many returning servicemembers don’t go onto commit offenses, there was a jump in cases of violent crimes as well as thefts and drug-related transgressions. The figures exclude crimes involving tens of thousands of convicts released from jail to join the war under a program set up by the late Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. Those who survived six months at the front were able to gain a pardon from President Vladimir Putin and return to Russia as free men.

Delhi court on Saturday extended till July 6 the judicial custody of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar. Kumar is accused of assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal on May 13 at the chief minister's official residence. Kumar was produced through video conferencing before Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav Goyal who extended his judicial custody till July 6.

tax (GST) council which is meeting today is likely to take up host of reforms including conditional waiver of interest or penalty on tax notices issued between 2017 and 2020, empowering the centre and states to quash tax notices on industry specific trade practices and putting a sunset clause on anti profiteering cases. The council may also decide on reducing the pre deposit for filling appeals to 7% from 10%, may set a monetary threshold for filing appeal in GST Appellate Tribunal and hight court and apex court and may set deadline for issuing summons even in case of willful default. The proposals once passed would set the ground ready for next level reforms in goods and services tax regime which will complete seven years in July. Also it may open window for relief to insurances, non banking financial services, banks, airlines and shipping companies facing tax demands along with penalties.

AIADMK legislators staged a walkout from the Tamil Nadu Assembly in protest over the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy. Ruckus erupted in the House after AIADMK leaders demanded discussion on the Kallakurichi illicit liquor tragedy, flagged black clothes and raised slogans in the Assembly. The opposition also demanded the resignation of chief minister MK Stalin.

Hinduja family were convicted on Friday for exploiting underpaid servants at their luxurious villa in Geneva, Switzerland. The elder family members, Prakash Hinduja (78) and Kamal Hinduja (75), who were absent from the trial due to health issues, received sentences of 4 1/2 years each. Ajay Hinduja and his wife Namrata, who were also not present in the courtroom, were sentenced to 4 years, as reported by Bloomberg. The Hinduja family's business manager, Najib Ziazi, received an 18-month suspended sentence. The Hindujas expressed their dismay at the court's decision and announced an appeal has been filed to a higher court. They hope to overturn the verdict, which found them guilty of exploiting vulnerable domestic workers, as reported by PTI.

GST) Council is likely to consider a number of measures at its meeting on Saturday that are expected to set the tone for broader tax reforms in the first full budget of the newly elected government. The council may discuss the use of GST cess amount collected from sin goods such as pan masala, cigarettes, etc. which may amount to Rs 70,000 crore. Other discussions may include the conditional waiver of interest or penalty on tax notices issued between 2017 and 2020, barring cases of wilful default and review of the decision to levy 28 per cent GST on the full value of bets for online gaming companies The GST Council may also deliberate on streamlining timelines for issuing notices, establishing monetary thresholds for pursuing disputes in the GST Appellate Tribunal, and setting a deadline for anti-profiteering cases. These reforms aim to minimize tax litigation and enhance the ease of doing business.

Nancy Pelosi's husband was convicted Friday of aggravated kidnapping, a conviction that mandates life behind bars without the possibility of parole. A San Francisco jury found David DePape also guilty of first-degree burglary, false imprisonment of an elder, threatening a family member of a public official and dissuading a witness.

Elon Musk has a secret child with an executive of his company Neuralink. Bloomberg has reported that Neuralink's Director of Special Projects, Shivon Zilis, is the mother of Musk's child born earlier this year. This is Musk's third child with Zilis. Earlier, twins were born to the Neuralink executive. Earlier the the owner of SpaceX and social media platform X, filed a petition in the court requesting to change the name of his twin sons.

survived a 2022 lethal injection attempt, is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 26 in Alabama through the new method. His attorneys argued the first nitrogen execution in January left Kenneth Smith shaking and convulsing on a gurney for several minutes as he was put to death.

Ledgers of the failed fintech middleman Synapse show that nearly all the deposits held for customers of the banking app Yotta went missing weeks ago, according to one of the lenders involved.

India lodged a «strong protest» with the Canadian High Commission in Delhi opposing the organisation of 'Citizen's Courts' by Khalistactivists in Canada. «We have strongly protested at the Canadian High Commission here. Such courts or gatherings are not helpful at all. We have strongly taken it up with them and asked them to take appropriate action in the matter,» said Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in response to ANI's question. Jaiswal emphasised India's stance against providing political space to extremist anti-India elements and those advocating violence.

NEET, days after deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar demanded the states be allowed to conduct their own entrance exams. He demanded a CBI enquiry into the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)-2024 in the wake of the exam’s on-going grace marks controversy, terming it a scam of the Modi-government. “The central government’s reluctance to order a probe despite the exposure of this massive scam raises doubts in the minds of the people. All the state governments have demanded a CBI probe. We don’t know if the Centre is trying to shield the culprits. The Modi government is playing with the future of 24 lakh students across the country,” Patil said. The state, however, could not outrightly reject the NEET, he added, as the law was enacted by the Central government and backed by a Supreme Court order. “The Tamil Nadu government has expressed its position, we need to fight legally. The Apex Court has told the Centre to accept if it has bungled. It’s sad that the Centre is not taking this seriously even as students and parents continue their protests across the country,” he said.

RBI) Deputy Governor S S Mundra on Friday called for an «introspection» among financial regulators. The career central banker, who served as the Deputy Governor of the RBI for three years ending 2017, cited recent instances involving both the RBI and Sebi. «There is a little bit which is there, for which regulators also need to introspect,» Mundra said, while speaking at an event organised by industry lobby grouping Assocham here.

Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the West Bengal government to take steps to ensure that people displaced due to alleged post-poll violence in the state return to their homes. It directed the police to keep a strict vigil in the areas where violence allegedly took place and ensure that such incidents do not recur. The directive was issued by a division bench presided by Justice Harish Tandon while hearing petitions regarding allegations of violence in West Bengal after the Lok Sabha elections. The bench is likely to pronounce its directions on extension of deployment of central forces in West Bengal in the written order which will be posted in the high court's website.

National Testing Agency which conducts the NEET-UG examinations should be scrapped as crores of students who are future of India are suffering. He also called for the resignation of the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. «If he (Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan) is taking moral responsibility, we have heard in politics that people who take moral responsibility resign from their posts. But he is doing nothing of that sort… It is clear that papers are being leaked, they are being sold. This is a kind of commercialisation that is happening,» Yechury told ANI.

Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea challenging certain alleged controversial dialogues and scenes in Annu Kapoor-starrer movie 'Hamare Baarah'. The Bombay High Court had on June 19 allowed the release of the movie after its makers agreed to delete certain objectionable portions. The matter came up for hearing on Friday before a vacation bench of justices Vikram Nath and S V N Bhatti, which allowed the petitioner to withdraw the plea. «By this writ petition, I have challenged certain controversial dialogues and scenes in the picture,» the counsel appearing for the petitioner said.

granted bail to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday, citing insufficient evidence and potential bias in the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) investigation into the alleged money laundering case, in a 25-page order that was released on Friday. Special Judge Niyay Bindu of the Rouse Avenue Court highlighted the lack of clear evidence linking Kejriwal to the crime and questioned the ED’s investigative methods. The court noted the ED’s failure to demonstrate how the alleged proceeds of crime were used in the 2022 Goa assembly elections by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The judge pointed out that only Rs 40 crore of the alleged Rs 100 crore had been traced, with no timeline provided for locating the remaining amount. «ED has failed to clarify as to how much time is required for tracing out the complete money trail,» Judge Bindu remarked, emphasising that Kejriwal's prolonged detention without substantial evidence was unacceptable.

Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail for two weeks to activist Mahesh Raut, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, for attending the rituals following the death of his grandmother. A vacation bench of justices Vikram Nath and S V N Bhatti directed that the interim bail will commence from June 26 and Raut shall surrender without fail on July 10. The bench passed the order on his application seeking interim bail to attend the rituals which are likely to be held on June 29-30 and July 5-6. «Considering the facts and circumstances of the case and the period of incarceration already undergone by the respondent and also the nature of request made for the purpose, we are inclined to grant two weeks interim bail to the applicant (Raut) which may commence from June 26, 2024 and end on July 10, 2024,» the bench said.

Anu Dhankad’s involvement in the Burger King shooting is just one instance of this disturbing trend. As per a report by The Times of India, gang leaders are leveraging social media to recruit women fascinated by crime, drawing them into their syndicates. These women aren't mere accomplices but play multifaceted roles from honey-trapping targets to executing reconnaissance and even participating in lethal operations, recent cases reveal, the report stated.