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AFP. Moreover, the US State Department also issued its statement over the matter and rejected the announcement from the ICC Prosecutor, calling it 'shameful'. "The United States fundamentally rejects the announcement today from the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that he is applying for arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials, together with warrants for Hamas terrorists. We reject the Prosecutor's equivalence of Israel with Hamas.

The litigation marked an emerging conflict between technology disrupting the hands-on regulated profession of surveying. A state license requires educational and technical experience, which can include examinations and apprenticeships. Jones sought to expand his drone pilot career by taking composite images that could assist construction companies and others with bird's-eye views of their interested tracts of land.

Calcutta High Court on Monday came down heavily on the Election Commission of India for not resolving complaints filed by political parties during the Lok Sabha elections.

Delhi High Court has refused to direct all the medical professionals in the country to specify to the patient all possible risks and side effects associated with a drug, or a pharmaceutical product being prescribed. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora dismissed a PIL filed by Kerala-based social worker Jacob Vadakkanchery, also a naturopath, seeking a mandate from the government that medical professionals should specify the side effects in an additional slip in the regional language along with the prescription. «Since the legislature in its wisdom has elected to impose this duty on the manufacturer and the pharmacist (to state about side effects), we do not find any ground for issuing a direction as prayed for in this PIL as it would amount to judicial legislation,» the HC said in its May 15 order. The judges noted that while Vadakkanchery had admitted there are safeguards under the existing law with respect to apprising the patient about the possible side effects of the prescribed drugs, the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1945 obliges the manufacturer or its agent importing the drug to provide a package insert which shall duly disclose the side effects of the drugs to the consumer.

Justice Chitta Ranjan Dash, who retired as a judge of the Calcutta High Court on Monday, said he was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Speaking at his farewell at the high court in the presence of the judges and members of the bar, Justice Dash said he was «ready to go back to the organisation» if they called him for any assistance or for any work that he was capable of doing.

U.S.-based restaurant chain Red Lobster has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a Florida court after securing US$100 million in financing commitments from its existing lenders, the company said on Sunday.

court on Monday granted bail to JD(S) MLA and former Karnataka Minister H D Revanna in a sexual assault case. The 42nd Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court had previously granted interim relief to the 66-year-old politician.

Since its creation roughly 14 years ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has faced lawsuits, political and legal challenges to the idea of whether the Federal Government’s aggressive consumer financial watchdog agency should be allowed exist a...

Google is asking that a federal judge, rather than a jury, decide whether it violated U.S. antitrust laws by building a monopoly on the technology that powers online advertising

A local council in Germany has approved a plan by electric carmaker Tesla to expand the grounds of its first plant in Europe, a proposal which has drawn persistent protests this year

New York’s first-in-the-nation plan to levy a hefty toll on drivers entering Manhattan was the focus of a legal battle that played out in federal court

The Chicago Tribune is being sued by some of its staffers, who say they and other women and Black journalists are being paid less than their white male counterparts

Honolulu's former top prosecutor has been found not guilty in a bribery case that alleged employees of an engineering and architectural firm bribed him with campaign donations in exchange for his prosecution of a former company employee

The Russian state news agency Tass says a court in St. Petersburg has ordered the seizing of assets of Germany's Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank in Russia

A Russian court has sent a Finiko executive to prison for three years, after finding her guilty of helping to mastermind the biggest crypto scam in “post-Soviet history.”

«I'm truly sorry,» Combs said in a video post on his Instagram page. «My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I'm disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it. I'm disgusted now.»

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States over the mass leak of secret US documents, the culmination of 13 years of legal battles and detentions. Two judges at the High Court in London will rule on whether the court is satisfied by US assurances that Assange, 52, would not face the death penalty and could rely on the First Amendment right to free speech if he faced a US trial for spying. Assange's legal team say he could be on a plane across the Atlantic within 24 hours of the decision, could be released from jail, or his case could yet again be bogged down in months of legal battles.

conflicts, affecting 9.4 mn people and ₹3.11 tn investments. In this context, last week's Supreme Court judgment on land acquisition is significant.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) will file «at least one more» supplementary prosecution complaint (equivalent of a chargesheet) in the Delhi excise scandal, people aware of the matter told ET. It will elaborate on the alleged role of hawala operators in the alleged transfer of kickbacks from a South India-based group to functionaries of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the party's Goa assembly election campaign in 2022. The federal agency had arrested an alleged Delhi-based cash courier named Vinod Chauhan earlier this month. The agency, in one of its previous charge sheets, had alleged that Chauhan received cash bags from associates of BRS leader and co-accused in the case K Kavitha, which were then allegedly transferred through hawala to AAP leaders in Goa.

Patanjali found itself under the scanner of regulatory bodies and Supreme Court in the context of dodgy advertising practices. Welcome as this development was, the ayurvedic major is hardly alone in stretching the truth when it comes to advertising. While regulatory authorities must ensure that advertising adheres to ethical standards and doesn't mislead consumers, such scrutiny should be applied across the board. Every label coming out from FMCG, nutraceutical, cosmetic, pharmaceutical and wellness sectors must be properly checked by regulators. In this context, Supreme Court rightly pulled up the Indian Medical Association (IMA) last week for not taking action against Patanjali on complaints for the company's alleged 'misleading' claims and 'disparaging' ads against the allopathic system of medicine. Regulatory bodies should ensure that consumer goods are not allowed to introduce or sell their products in the market where the consumer assumes that products match what they are sold as — and, more importantly, that they are not sold as what they are not, especially by making disparaging comparisons.

NEW DELHI : Telecom service providers including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Tata Communications are set to save about ₹3,000 crore following a Supreme Court order released on Sunday. The apex court has waived off the interest levy on tax arising from its October 2023 ruling that said annual licence fees paid by telcos would be treated as capital expenditure, which are not tax deductible. The SC had overturned a 2013 Delhi High Court ruling that had said licence fees comprised revenue expenditure and were not taxable.