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home/flat/apartment/bungalow, etc you have to pay a booking amount before finalising the deal. It is intended to put some cost to cancellation of the deal because backing out creates problems for the builder and the home buyer. For the builder, it means he/she has to spend resources again to find a new buyer. For the home buyer, it means he/she may lose out on the booking amount which was initially given to the builder for booking the said home. So, what happens if a buyer has to cancel the booking due to an unavoidable reason? As per an ET Wealth Online report last week, a similar incident happened when a home buyer backed out of the purchase deal, and the builder forfeited the entire Rs 5 lakh that was given as a booking amount. Read more about how MahaRERA rescued this buyer.

The 2G spectrum judgement of 2012 is making headlines again. The government is pleading at the Supreme Court (SC) for an amendment to its landmark telecom auctions ruling that mandated the sale of 2G spectrum to the highest bidder. But the Centre wants to allocate some spectrum through administrative means, such as licensing—an approach often used for procuring services from the private sector.

Top Events of the Day: PM Modi will address a rally in Pune at the Race Course. Mahindra & Mahindra to launch its Mahindra XUV 3XO. Meanwhile, SC will hear the West Bengal government’s plea against Calcutta HC’s order in the Sandeshkhali Case.

Prajwal Revanna, who is accused of sexual assault on thousands of women, filed a complaint on Sunday claiming the viral videos are “morphed" and are being circulated to “tarnish his image and poison the minds of voters" during the Lok Sabha elections 2024. Prajwal Revanna had also filed a case against a man named Naveen Gowda. In his complaint, he had alleged that the visuals had been morphed to show him and also obtained an ex-parte injunction from the Principal City Civil and Sessions Court against 89 media houses preventing them from publishing any “defamatory" content about him.

Mumbai news: Actor Sahil Khan has been sent to police custody till May 1 in connection with the Mahadev betting app case. Mumbai's special investigation team (SIT) apprehended Khan from Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh on Saturday after the Bombay High Court dismissed his bail plea. The well-known actor for his work in Bollywood films like Aladdin, Excuse Me, and Style is one of the 32 others charged with promoting the betting application.

movie mogul has been admitted to a Manhattan hospital for various tests upon his return to New York City, as per an AP report. This came after an appeals court decision overturned his 2020 rape conviction. Attorney Arthur Aidala said that Weinstein was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on April 26, adding, “They examined him and sent him to Bellevue.

security situation in Jammu and Kashmir is «comfortable to hold elections,» defence minister Rajnath Singh told ET, adding that the final decision rests with the Election Commission (EC). EC has decided to hold only Lok Sabha elections — being held across the country in phases until June 1 — in the current poll cycle in the Union Territory. The Supreme Court earlier said Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections should be held by September. These were last held in 2014. «The final decision will be with EC, but we do want polls to take place,» said Singh. «The security situation is comfortable to hold elections. In terms of (security) data, I would say we are 95% there.»

Trevor Gorji has jokes. Over the past several years, through his puckish clothing brand Fugazi, Gorji, 25, has made a Jordan-lookalike sneaker that swapped the Swoosh for a revolver. He’s made shirts with “Willful Infringement" embroidered along the back in reference to trademark lawsuits and made sherpa hoodies with wrong-looking zig-zaggy zippers.

Muslim reservation in Karnataka has reignited a heated debate, drawing attention from various quarters, including political functionaries and the National Commission for Backward Classes. The controversy revolves around the allocation of quotas for Muslims within the broader framework of OBC reservation in the state, with remarks by PM Narendra Modi adding fuel to the discussions. Modi Accuses Congress of Reservation Manipulation During a recent rally in Rajasthan’s Tonk-Sawai Madhopur Lok Sabha constituency, PM Modi accused the Congress of attempting to diminish quotas for SCs, STs, and OBCs. He criticized Congress for advocating reservation for Muslims, which he deemed contrary to the spirit of the Constitution.

A judge ordered jurors Friday to keep deliberating after they said they were deadlocked in a lawsuit alleging a Virginia-based military contractor is liable for abuses suffered by inmates at the Abu Ghraib prion in Iraq two decades ago

Turkey’s state-run news agency has reported that a court sentenced a Syrian woman to life in prison for a deadly explosion on a busy shopping district in Istanbul in 2022

State assemblies met for an average of 22 days in 2023, even as in some states they held sittings after long adjournments with sessions stretching for over six months without the House being prorogued amid run-ins between state governments and governors. According to a report by think tank PRS Legislative Research, state assemblies sat for an average of 22 days in 2023, and the average duration of sittings was five hours. In 2023, seven states continued sessions for more than six months without proroguing it, and with long gaps between sittings, it said. The Constitution mandates state legislature sessions to be held at least once every six months. Almost 62 per cent of sittings were held during the budget session.

Ramraj Meghwal had a long dispute with his neighbours, Bhagwan Mali and his brother Rakesh Mali. The dispute was related to pet dog, as the family members of Ramraj Meghwal claimed that the Mali brothers used to set their dogs free to scare their children when they used to leave for school. As the dispute escalated, Bhagwan Mali and Rakesh Mali allegedly attacked Ramraj Meghwal with sticks and iron rods.

New York court in 2020 of the rape and sexual assault of ex-actress Jessica Mann in 2013, and of forcibly performing oral sex on former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006. He was later sentenced to 23 years in prison.

Bollywood actor and fitness influencer Sahil Khan from Chhattisgarh concerning the Mahadev betting app scam. Khan's arrest follows the Bombay High Court's denial of his pre-arrest bail plea, citing his direct involvement with an online betting application.

Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest in a money laundering case stemming from the alleged excise policy scam. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta is likely to hear the matter. Kejriwal had earlier told the apex court that his «illegal arrest» in the case constitutes an unprecedented assault on the tenets of democracy based on «free and fair elections» and «federalism». In a rejoinder to the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) reply affidavit filed on his petition challenging his arrest in the case, Kejriwal said the mode, manner and timing of his arrest just before the Lok Sabha elections when the Model Code of Conduct had come into play, speaks volumes about the «arbitrariness» of the agency.

arrested Sahil Khan from Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh in connection with the Mahadev betting app scam case. The Bollywood actor and fitness coach's arrest came after the Bombay High Court rejected his pre-arrest bail plea. Known for his roles in Bollywood movies such as Style and Excuse Me, Khan initially gained fame through a musical video of Stereo Nation's Nachange Sari Raat.

Karnataka's Congress government on Sunday in a rally in Belagavi, saying it has bowed to the pressure of appeasement politics instead of giving justice to the family of Neha Hiremath, the young student murdered in her college in Hubballi two weeks ago. Neha, the daughter of Congress Councillor of Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation Niranjan Hiremath, was stabbed to death on the campus by accused Fayaz Khondunaik. The BJP has been cornering the ruling Congress on the issue, taking the ‘Love Jihad’ angle. “What happened with our daughter in a college campus in Hubli shook the entire nation. They don't value the lives of our daughters like Neha. All they care about is their vote bank…ever since the Congress government came to Karnataka, the situation of law and order in the entire state has deteriorated significantly,” the PM said.

Why Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal can't cast a vote in Lok Sabha Elections on May 25? "Today people have come from different parts of Delhi to participate in this walkathon for Arvind Kejriwal. They are showing their support and love, and giving blessings. Delhi people are fighting the election.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has put all three leaders on the star campaigners list for the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Can Arvind Kejriwal and his former ministers vote in the ongoing elections? Let’s explore: Delhi, where Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his former ministers are currently in jail, is scheduled to vote in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha Elections on May 25, 2024.

special investigation team of Mumbai cyber cell has detained actor Sahil Khan from Chhattisgarh in connection with the Mahadev betting app case, an official said on Sunday. The actor was apprehended from Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh on Saturday after the Bombay High Court rejected his pre-arrest bail plea, he said. Khan was recently questioned by the SIT in connection with the case. The SIT has been conducting a probe into the alleged illegal transactions between certain financial and real estate firms in the state and the promoters of the controversial Mahadev betting app.