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After brief but sharp price jumps last week, bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) headed lower Tuesday.

Carson Group fired back at a former executive’s retaliation and discrimination claims in court last week.

Khosla ka Ghosla. In real life, too, it’s not uncommon to uncover issues related to properties after you’ve seemingly made a rightful purchase. Sometimes a property is sold twice, to different parties, or the title deed is not clear, or relatives might come into the picture.

Tata Sons shares to refinance over $2 billion debt, Tata Trusts has, for the first time, officially said these are non-transferable. The Trusts, which holds a controlling 66% in group holding company Tata Sons, is worried about possible litigation with lenders over enforcing the security in case SP Group defaults. «As is publicly known, Tata Sons' shares are not freely transferable,» said Tata Trusts chief executive Siddharth Sharma in response to ET's emailed queries on the Trusts' legal position on the matter.

A law that drew massive protests and made Wisconsin the center of a national fight over union rights has returned to court, facing a new challenge from teachers and public workers brought after the state’s Supreme Court flipped to liberal control

Americans expect more federal student debt forgiveness in a survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last month.

The former chief executive of FTX’s Bahamas subsidiary was ordered to spend 7.5 years in prison, the first of Sam Bankman-Fried’s close associates to be sentenced in the wake of the cryptocurrency exchange’s implosion.

Centre has extended the service of Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar, 1987 batch IAS officer, for a further period of three months, officials on Tuesday said. Kumar, at loggerheads with the AAP government in Delhi, was given his first extension in November 2023, following a Supreme Court order. An order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday said, «Approval of the Competent Authority is hereby conveyed for the extension of service of Naresh Kumar, IAS (AGMUT 1987), Chief Secretary, GNCTD, for a further period of three months beyond 31.05.2024, i.e. from 01.06,2024 to 31.08.2024 in relaxation of Rule 16(1) of AIS (DCRB) Rules, 1958 by invoking Rule 3 of AIS(CS-RM) Rules, 1960.» Kumar, who was due to retire on November 30, 2023, was given a six months extension. The period of extension will expire on May 31.

Immediately halt its military offensive and any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part".The ICJ ruling against Israel on Friday brought the focus on Judge Dalveer Bhandari in India. So who is Dalveer Bhandari, the Indian Judge who voted in favor of the ruling against Israel.A former Supreme Court judge, Justice Bhandari has been a member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since 2012.

Kumar’s bail plea was dismissed by a sessions court, which said there appeared no "pre-meditation" by Maliwal in lodging the FIR and that her allegations could not be "swiped away".Following the rejection of the bail plea, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said Bibhav Kumar will move the Delhi High Court against city court's decision. During the hearing on Monday, Swati Maliwal, who was presented during the hearing, opposed the bail plea saying she was receiving threats.

Rafael Nadal says he might not be done. He’s left the door open to a French Open return, to the point he asked Roland Garros officials to cancel plans for an elaborate on-court farewell. One imagines a scrambled call to a Saint-Germain-des-Prés pâtissier, scuttling a 14-foot macaron pyramid: “Désolé, il ne veut pas de gâteau.

'BJP asks us to join…': Arvind Kejriwal says AAP won't bow down amid MLA poaching rowThe confession stated: “A Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed, and, KCR wanted the arrest of senior BJP leader Santhosh to make the case strong so that BJP would come for compromise and it could be used to get rid of the ED case on his daughter, MLC K Kavitha. However, due to the inefficiency of some Cyberabad police officials, one important person escaped police apprehension, and later, the case went to the High Court where orders not to arrest were issued and then the SIT case was transferred to CBI."Also Read | BRS workers 'kidnap' own party leader amid defection buzz, former MLA 'rescued' by BJP | WATCH'Peddayana' – an indirect reference to Chandrasekhar Rao – was “very angry" when the work was not done as per his expectations, according to the former police official.Radha Kishan Rao has also confessed to tapping the phones of some officers during the BRS government in the state, an Indian Express report mentioned.

in Delhi NCR on Tuesday and Wednesday.On Tuesday, Atishi appealed to everyone not to wash their cars with pipes. "Don't use the water supply to wash your cars. This is a wasteful use of water," she said."Please make sure water is not wasted because of continuously running water motors...

Jalan Kalrock Consortium (JKC), the successful bidder of the grounded Jet Airways, on Tuesday withdrew its plea before the NCLAT to move Rs 200 crore, which it paid to lenders, to an escrow account. The withdrawal comes after the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) refused to give any relief to JKC. An NCLAT bench headed by Chairman Justice Ashok Bhushan said the matter is already before the Supreme Court. Following this, the Consortium of Murari Lal Jalan and Florian Fritsch withdrew the appeal. «Until the shares of the corporate debtor (Jet Airways) are not issued to the successful resolution applicant (consortium), pass necessary directions requiring the MC (monitoring committee) lenders to transfer the sum of Rs 200 crore infused by SR (successful resolution applicant), in the share application account to an interest bearing escrow account,» JKC had said in its plea before the NCLAT.

Delhi court on Tuesday refused to summon Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a criminal complaint filed by a BJP leader who accused him of defamation for claiming that AAP leaders were approached to join the saffron party in return for cash. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tanya Bamniyal, however, summoned AAP leader Atishi, saying «prima facie» there was sufficient evidence against her in the matter. The judge directed Atishi, a minister in the Kejriwal cabinet, to appear before the court on June 29. BJP leader Praveen Shankar Kapoor had filed a case against Kejriwal and Atishi over poaching allegations made by the two.

Rouse Avenue Court on Tuesday summoned Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi Marlena in a defamation suit filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Praveen Shankar Kapoor. The court has asked the Delhi Minister to appear before it on June 29 in a suit which alleged that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Atishi have accused the saffron party of attempting to lure AAP MLAS and bribe them to switch parties are unfounded and defamatory. The court has, however, refused to summon Arvind Kejriwal.

Delhi police have filed a supplementary chargesheet containing more digital and forensic evidence reports to nail Aaftab Amin Poonawala, who stands accused of killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar and dismembering her body, court sources said on Tuesday. The nearly 3,000-page chargesheet was filed before metropolitan magistrate Aviral Shukla, they said. Poonawala is alleged to have strangled Walkar and chopped her body into pieces in the national capital's Mehrauli in May 2022 before scattering the body parts in different areas of the city to escape detection. He has been charged under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the Indian Penal Code.

Nigeria’s government is cracking down on illegal mining, making dozens of arrests of unlicensed miners since April for allegedly stealing the country’s lithium, a critical mineral used in batteries for electric vehicles, smartphones and power systems

A prosecutor told jurors at a fraud trial's start that a self-exiled wealthy Chinese businessman became an internet sensation and conned thousands of people worldwide out of $1 billion

Ohio’s historical society is close to gaining control of ancient ceremonial and burial earthworks now maintained by a country club where its members golf alongside the mounds

American Airlines is changing law firms after a controversial filing in a lawsuit brought by the family of a 9-year-old girl who was recorded using an airplane lavatory