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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, a new legal battle looms over the ownership of their billion-dollar Château Miraval. Pitt, who has already emerged victorious in three legal skirmishes against Jolie, is now preparing for a fourth trial to secure ownership of the famed French vineyard amidst allegations of breach of contract and unauthorized share sales to a Russian tycoon.

Sajjan Jindal molested her. The police said that the hotel staff confirmed that Jindal did not go to the hotel on that day. The complainant filed a rape case at the BKC police station against Sajjan Jindal in December 2023 and claimed that she was molested in January 2022 in the penthouse atop the company’s head office.

Hyderabad: Electoral bonds are nothing but 'quid pro quo', Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy said on Sunday. Addressing a «meet the press» programme, Reddy slammed former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, alleging that his regime resembled "Nizam's rule." «They (electoral bonds) are nothing but 'quid pro quo' between those in power and contractors. Those in power are giving some contracts and they are giving back electoral bonds,» he said replying to a query. The Election Commission of India on Sunday uploaded the data received in digitised form from the registry of the Supreme Court on electoral bonds, on its website.

Electoral bonds data 2nd list: In a fresh set of details around the political donations through electoral bonds, the Election Commission of India on Sunday uploaded the sealed covers received by the Supreme Court's registry carrying party-wise details of electoral bond donations at least till 12 April 2019. The second set of data sheds more light on donations through ‘now-scrapped’ electoral bonds.

₹6,986.5 crore donations made to the saffron party, through electoral bonds, ₹2,555 crore was made during the financial year 2019-20, the data shared by the election commission revealed. Sealed cover’ data of electoral bonds for the period March 2018-April 2019 made public by the election commission doesn’t include the names of the donors (barring few parties who disclosed the names voluntarily).

Elvish Yadav was present at the party and is accused of supplying snake venom to the party. After police raids, social media was abuzz with videos of Elvish Yadav with snakes and users demanding the arrest of the YouTuber. NGO People for Animals (PFA) founded by BJP MP Maneka Gandhi conducted a string operation after which five people were arrested for snake smuggling.

₹1397 crore donations, whereas K Chandrashekar Rao's BRS is the fourth largest recipient after BJP, Trinamool and Congress.Electoral Bonds data 2nd list LIVE: K. Chandrashekar Rao’s BRS has emerged as the fourth largest recipient through electoral bonds.

Electoral bonds data: Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday uploaded fresh data related to funding of political parties in India through electoral bonds. The fresh data pertains to the information provided by political parties to the Supreme Court of India in a sealed cover after interim order in April 12, 2019 and is believed to be for the period before the date of the interim order.

Supreme Court seeking disclosure of the details of electoral bonds sold from March 1, 2018, to April 11, 2019, saying voters are entitled to know funding to political parties for the entire period since the start of the scheme. In a landmark verdict last month, the top court scrapped the Centre's electoral bonds scheme that allowed anonymous political funding calling it «unconstitutional» and ordered the State Bank of India (SBI), the authorised financial institution under the scheme, to submit the details of the bonds purchased from April 12, 2019 to February 15, 2024 to the Election Commission of India (ECI). A new application, filed by Citizen's Rights Trust, has submitted that 9,159 bonds worth Rs 4,002 crore have been sold between March 2018 to April 2019 which should also be disclosed. The petition seeks a direction to the SBI to share the details of electoral bonds sold and redeemed from March 1, 2018, to April 11, 2019, including the alphanumeric number, date of purchase, denomination, names of donors and parties to the ECI.

Kapil Sibal on Sunday said the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal is an evidence that the Election Commission is «a long arm of the government». Sibal also raised questions over the appointment of two election commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu recently, saying they were appointed despite the fact that there is a Constitution bench judgment stating that the Chief Justice of India (CJI) should also be a member of the committee that recommends the names of appointees. «As far as the seven phases (of the Lok Sabha polls in the country) are concerned, that was expected,» he told PTI Videos. «In fact the way they appointed these two election commissioners despite the fact that there is a Constitution bench judgment saying that the CJI should also be a member of the committee. The way they have discarded the Constitution bench decision despite the challenge pending in the Supreme Court and the way they preponed the appointment, only shows that their intention was to have their own people there,» Sibal alleged.

Charan Singh were blessed with a baby boy. Taking to Instagram, Balkaur Singh shared the good news with the rapper’s fans. “With the blessings of millions of souls who love Shubdeep, the Almighty has put Shubh's younger brother in our bag. With the blessings of Waheguru, the family is healthy and thankful to all the well-wishers for their immense love (sic),” he wrote. In the picture, the proud father is seen sitting beside a picture of the late rapper, carrying the newborn in his lap. The post went viral on the image and video sharing portal, crossing 1 million likes.

Centre has urged the Delhi High Court to grant some time to frame a policy on the online sale of medicines on the grounds that the issue was «complex» and any modification in the manner of sale of drugs would have far-reaching consequences. The high court granted the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare four months as a last and final opportunity to frame the policy. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet PS Arora made clear that «if the draft policy is not prepared before the next date of hearing, this court will have no other option but to proceed ahead with the matter». The high court, which was hearing several petitions seeking a ban on the «illegal» sale of drugs online and challenging the draft rules published by the ministry to further amend the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, listed the matter for further hearing on July 8.

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Times Now, Serious charges under IPC including criminal breach of trust and cheating have been leveled against them. Earlier on Wednesday, during an investigation into the Mahadev betting app case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) revealed that several dummy accounts and fake bank entities were being used to invest nearly ₹1,100 crore in the stock market. Till the investigation is completed, the ED will keep these shares frozen.

Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear for questioning on March 21 in the excise policy linked money laundering case, official sources said Sunday. The 55-year-old national convenor of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been asked to depose at the central agency's office in central Delhi. The ninth summons have been issued so that Kejriwal's statement can be recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the sources said.

Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested fresh three accused in the Sandeshkhali ED assault case, sources said. The accused have been identified as Mafujar Molla, Sirajul Molla and Sheikh Alomgir. CBI has arrested total six person in the case as of now and investigations is underway. Earlier, on March 11, amid the ongoing investigation into the attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers at Sandeshkhali, West Bengal, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) made three arrests.

PTI reported Kumar as saying. Also Read: Electoral Bond Case: Here's what the SC told SBI about unique number In its landmark verdict on February 15, the top court had scrapped the Centre's electoral bonds scheme that allowed anonymous political funding, calling it “unconstitutional" and ordered disclosure by the EC of donors, the amount donated by them and the recipients. Kumar said, “The unaccounted money which is used in the elections...

Arvind Kejriwal and asked him to appear before the federal agency on March 21 in the excise policy case. The AAP supremo was granted bail by Delhi's Rouse Avenue court against arrest for skipping probe agency summons on a bail bond of ₹15,000 and a surety of ₹1 lakh in the money laundering case.

Arvind Kejriwal. As reported by ANI citing party sources, “ED opened a new case against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

Moneycontol. “The employer must grant a paid holiday to all eligible employees on the day of the election. They must ensure that there is no deduction or abatement of wages," Moneycontrol quoted Partner at RR Legal, Abhishek Awasthi as saying.

Opposition volleys over the publication of date on polling funding through electoral bonds on the official portal of the Election Commission (EC), expelled Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam on Saturday asked if the rival parties were suggesting that all the 1,300 firms that made donations via electoral bonds were 'thieves'. Speaking to on Saturday, Acharya Krishnam, who has been taking regular potshots at the Congress since being expelled for 'anti-party activities', said, «All political parties across the world receive donations. Are they (Opposition) suggesting that the 1,300 companies that made political donations through these electoral bonds, the money from which went into nation-building, are thieves? Are they robbers? The money they have donated is now on record. It is in the public domain. Casting aspersions on the contributions that are on record shows the dirty mindset of the Opposition.» Coming down heavily on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who claimed earlier that the BJP was running the «biggest extortion in the world» through the Electoral Bond Scheme, the expelled leader added, «The entire Opposition has started speaking in Rahul-ji's language. This is most unfortunate.»