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Follow live updates on Electoral bonds Here Both cases comes a day after the poll body uploaded the details of the electoral bonds issued to political parties on its website and the appointment of two election commissioners, ahead of Lok Sabha polls. In the first case the ECI, according to legal news website LiveLaw, has requested the Supreme Court to return to it the documents in sealed cover that it had submitted in the Electoral Bond case.

Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 jet when part of its fuselage blew out in January are suing — including one who says his life was saved by a seat belt. The latest lawsuit, representing seven passengers, was filed in Washington’s King County Superior Court Thursday against Boeing, Alaska Airlines, Spirit AeroSystems and 10 people listed as John Does. Cuong Tran, of Upland, California, was sitting in the row behind where the side of the aircraft tore away and left a door-sized hole on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Jan.

electoral bonds for contributions to political parties. This came after the Supreme Court of India directed the State Bank of India to complete its submission of data on March 12. Now, with the lists revealed, leading the list of donors is a rather unknown company called Future Gaming and Hotel Services, helmed by "Lottery King" Santiago Martin.

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Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Ltd head the list of donors to parties through electoral bonds. Late on Thursday, the Election Commission of India (ECI) published details of bond buyers and beneficiaries since April 2019, as per the Supreme Court’s orders, ahead of the 18th Lok Sabha elections. The data release provides details of electoral bonds worth over Rs 12,000 crore. The information was provided by State Bank of India (SBI), the sole seller of the bonds, and published by the ECI. Other donor names include the Bharti Group and Vedanta. The information clearly shows the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) got the lion’s share over the years, something that’s also clear from the party’s own annual audit reports.

As we wade through tax season anxiously awaiting those final few T5 and T3 slips for 2023 to arrive, we should ensure we’ve taken full advantage of the contribution room available to us in all the various registered plans in order to minimize the amount of taxable investment income we’ll need to report in future years.

government on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court, challenging a foreign arbitration award won by Vedanta against the former's demand for a higher payout from its Rajasthan oil and gas fields. The dispute between the Directorate of Hydrocarbons and Vedanta — Cairn arose due to incorrect cost recovery and non-allocation of common costs that allegedly had a huge «adverse financial implication on the Profit Oil/Gas» payable to the government. As of May 14, 2020 (excluding interest), the government's share of profits dues of the company of $1.66 billion were short paid by $1.16 billion, representing 70% of the total amount due, according to the government.

companies undergoing business reorganisation such as amalgamation, merger or demerger, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has allowed them to file modified returns of income with an extended deadline. Companies undergoing business reorganisation, particularly those involved in schemes of amalgamation, merger, or demerger or succession post insolvency sanctioned by competent authorities, after June 2016 but prior to April 1, 2022, may now file modified return up to June 30, CBDT said in an order issued on Thursday. Experts said the CBDT decision underscores the government's commitment to a business-friendly ecosystem as it brings relief to companies whose reorganisation orders were issued before the implementation of the Finance Bill 2022.

SBI Electoral Bonds data LIVE updates: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday uploaded the electoral bond data on its website in compliance with the February 15 order of the Supreme Court. The electoral bond data, compiled by the State Bank of India (SBI) lays down two sets of information- one related to the name of the purchaser date, and denomination of the bonds.

Manish Sisodia's curative petition challenging the apex court's decision rejecting his bail plea in the Delhi excise policy scam case, news agency ANI reported. Dismissing the curative petition filed by the former deputy chief minister of Delhi, a Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justices Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and SVN Bhatti said," no case is made out." “We have gone through the Curative Petitions and the connected documents. In our opinion, no case is made out within the parameters indicated in the decision of this Court in Rupa Ashok Hurra vs Ashok Hurra," the bench observed.

Mint analysis of the data released by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday. Until the Supreme Court quashed the scheme last month, purchasing an electoral bond effectively meant making a political donation that could later be encashed by a political party. The list detailed bonds worth ₹12,155.51 crore purchased by over 1,300 companies in nearly five years.

bitcoin is not the pseudonymous inventor of the cryptocurrency, a judge at London's High Court ruled on Thursday. Craig Wright has long claimed to have been the author of a 2008 white paper, the foundational text of bitcoin, published in the name «Satoshi Nakamoto».

UK Judge James Mellor has rejected Craig Wright’s claims of being Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive creator of Bitcoin, in a recent verdict. 

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LGBTQ community in Japan cheered the high court ruling as a landmark decision that gives them hope for change toward equality. Notably, the Japanese High Court does not have the provision to overturn the current marriage law, which restricts marriage as between woman and man. The Sapporo High Court ruling said that not allowing same-sex couples to marry and enjoy the same benefits as straight couples violates their fundamental right to equality and freedom of marriage, reports AP.

Bar and Bench reported. The Supreme Court will now the matter regarding the compliance with its orders in connection with electoral bonds case. While scrapping the Centre's Electoral Bond scheme, the Supreme Court had asked the State Bank of India (SBI) to furnish details of the electoral bonds to the Elections Commision.

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Lok Sabha polls. Kalyan is a known Telugu actor and heads the JSP. After suffering a crushing defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the TDP, which was part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance until 2018, expressed interest in reviving the alliance.

Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on the hugely contentious issue of whether the royalty payable on minerals is a tax under the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, and if only the Centre is vested with the power to levy such exaction or states also have the authority to impose levies on mineral bearing land in their territory. A nine-judge bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud heard the matter on eight days, while dealing with a batch of 86 appeals filed by different state governments, mining companies and public sector undertakings. The bench, also comprising Justices Hrishikesh Roy, Abhay S Oka, BV Nagarathna, JB Pardiwala, Manoj Misra, Ujjal Bhuyan, Satish Chandra Sharma and Augustine George Masih, heard the arguments of various parties including the Centre. During the hearing, the top court had said the Constitution vests the power to impose tax on mineral rights not in Parliament alone but also the states and underlined that such authority should not be diluted.

As your grandparents might have told you, “once you find a single reason to be angry about something, you won’t have trouble finding dozens more”. Seldom has there been a better example of this proverb in action than the UK Employment Tribunal case which was recently decided largely in favour of Barclays and against three of its staff.