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Indian opposition leader and New Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has been granted bail by a court in the capital after he was arrested in a bribery case in March

The Supreme Court has upheld a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business and anti-regulatory interests

Delhi Congress workers on Friday held a demonstration near the BJP headquarters here over the alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG 2024 examinations. The demonstration was led by Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav. The medical entrance examination, National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate) or NEET-UG, was conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on May 5 with around 24 lakh candidates taking part. The results were announced on June 4.

UGC-NET and NEET-UG, the two important national-level examinations, have triggered a political row with opposition leaders including Rahul Gandhi launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing him of being more concerned about Lok Sabha Speaker's election scheduled next week.The Union Education Ministry on June 19 cancelled the University Grants Commission–National Eligibility Test (NET) after concerns were raised about the exam's integrity. The UGC-NET 2024 was conducted on June 18 across 317 cities.Also Read: ‘Millions of dreams…,’ ABVP, other RSS affiliates express unease over NTA role amid NEET, UGC-NET 2024 row: ReportThe cancellation of UGC-NET came amid ongoing controversy over alleged irregularities in the medical entrance exam - NEET.

The Southern Baptist Convention—whose nearly 13 million members make it the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S.—is often described as a “barometer" for evangelical sentiments nationwide. Yet last week the convention did something few Christian bodies have done: It adopted a resolution opposing the use of in vitro fertilization. Public debates about IVF and advanced reproductive technology aren’t new.

Ketan Mehta is a patient man. After establishing a business for buying and selling life insurance policies in 2002, the chartered accountant (CA) spent a decade (2005-2015) embroiled in litigation. LIC, India’s largest insurance company, opposed the idea of a 'secondary market' in insurance and did not cooperate with Mehta. 

probe, cancellation and retest of NEET-UG, 2024 exam on grounds of question paper leak and other malpractices, on Friday. On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued a notice regarding a plea by the National Testing Agency (NTA) seeking to transfer all petitions related to the NEET-UG 2024 examination from various High Courts to the apex court. The bench, led by Justice Vikram Nath, also stayed proceedings before different High Courts but emphasized that it would not halt the ongoing counseling process. Additionally, the SC issued a notice to the Centre and the NTA in response to a petition filed by students who appeared for the NEET-UG exam at the Meghalaya center. These students claimed they lost 45 minutes during the exam and requested to be included among the 1,563 students who were granted grace marks and offered a re-exam on June 23. The Court has scheduled the hearing for these pleas on July 8.

Brazil's top court decided on Thursday to close an investigation into Alphabet's Google and Telegram for allegedly coordinating their opposition to a bill aimed at cracking down on fake news. The bill, which is still pending, would require that internet companies' search engines and social messaging services find and report illegal material, and would charge hefty fines for failures to do so.

The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that planners reviewing well-drilling permits must consider the environmental impact from burning the oil that would be produced

black passengers were removed from a flight allegedly for their body odor? Several American Airlines employees have been sent on leave. In a terse note written to its employees, American CEO Robert Isom said that the incident was unacceptable. He said that he was incredibly disappointed by what happened on that flight and the breakdown of the set procedures. He added that the incident contradicted the values of the airlines fell short of commitments and failed customers. What happened?

Delhi Court on Thursday granted bail to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the Delhi Excise policy case. Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in March this year under relevant provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) for his alleged role in the Delhi excise policy case. The federal agency had last month filed a chargesheet against Kejriwal accusing him of being the «kingpin» in the case. The ED has also chargesheeted the AAP as a co-accused in the case. Vacation Judge Niyay Bindu passed the order today after hearing contentions of ED and Kejriwal over two days. After the pronouncement of the order this evening, the ED requested whether the signing of the bail bond could be deferred by 48 hours so that the order may be challenged before the appellate court. However, the judge turned down ED's request. The bail bond is to be produced before the duty judge tomorrow, the court added. The agency has alleged that Kejriwal demanded ₹100 crore in kickbacks to benefit certain liquor wholesalers in the excise policy. It further alleged that the AAP utilised the bribes in the 2022 Goa assembly elections.

The US Supreme Court upheld a 2017 tax on American-owned businesses’ foreign profits, rejecting an appeal that could have saved companies hundreds of billions of dollars.

The European Union’s top court says products such as disinfectants can’t be advertised as “skin friendly.”

An ongoing fight between residents and animal rights activists over whether to cull pigeons in a small German town has led to an uproar

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Thursday vowed to challenge the Patna High Court order setting aside a hike in reservation for deprived castes from 50 per cent to 65 per cent. Choudhary, who is also the state BJP president, asserted his party was «fully in support» of reservations and the state government will move the Supreme Court «after due consultations with legal experts». «It was with the BJP's full support that the Nitish Kumar government ordered the caste survey and raised quotas for Dalits, tribals and backward classes,» said Choudhary, who became deputy CM in January this year after the return of Kumar to the NDA. «We believe that the reservation laws in Bihar were amended in accordance with provisions of the Constitution… states like Tamil Nadu, too, have 69 per cent quotas,» he said.

«The government is going to form a high committee. Recommendations will be expected from that high-level committee to further improve NTA, its structure, functioning, examination process, transparency and data security protocol,» said Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

Election Commission has received eight applications from aggrieved candidates, including those from the BJP and the Congress, for verification of tampering or modification in micro-controller chips embedded in the EVMs post declaration of Lok Sabha election results on June 4. Terming the suspicion of manipulation of the electronic voting machines «unfounded», the Supreme Court had on April 26 rejected the demand for reverting to the old paper ballot system. But at the same time, the top court had opened a window for the aggrieved unsuccessful candidates securing second and third places in the poll results and allowed them to seek verification of micro-controller chips embedded in five per cent EVMs per assembly constituency on a written request upon the payment of a fee to the poll panel. BJP's Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) candidate Sujay Vikhe-Patil has sought verification of the machines from 40 polling stations.

Binance is contesting a $4.3m fine levied by Canada’s financial intelligence agency, FINTRAC.

NEET exams have intensified due to allegations of leaked question papers and biased markings, a heated political controversy has sparked in Bihar.The claims made by the accused individuals have sparked a conflict between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is part of the ruling coalition led by the Janata Dal (United), and the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).Also Read: NEET UG 2024 row: Arrested candidate confesses leaked question paper ‘matched the actual exam paper’At the heart of this conflict is each political faction's alleged association with the accused, particularly Sikandar Yadavendu, whom authorities suspect to be the mastermind behind the alleged operation.Four individuals reported to the police that the exam paper was leaked 24 hours before the scheduled exam date on May 4th. The individuals include Anurag Yadav, a NEET candidate, his uncle Sikandar Yadavendu, and Nitish Kumar and Amit Anand.Also Read: NEET-UG 2024 row: Supreme Court seeks responses from Centre, NTA on paper leak allegationsAnurag Yadav stated that his uncle had given him the leaked paper, which “contained questions identical to those on the actual exam."Meanwhile, Bihar Deputy CM Vijay Sinha alleged, “On May 1, Tejashwi Yadav's personal secretary Pritam Kumar called guesthouse worker Pradip Kumar to book a room for Sikander Kumar Yadavendu...

Rouse Avenue Court on Thursday heard the bail plea of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. ASG SV Raju appeared for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and submitted documents showing certain transactions done for his stay at the Grand Hyatt in Goa through Chanpreet Singh’s account. Raju also submitted screenshots of WhatsApp chats between Kejriwal, Singh and Vinod Chauhan, claiming to have established transactions being done between the three.