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match fixing" raised by Shiv Sena (UBT) faction leader Sanjay Raut ahead of the verdict in the Shiv Sena MLA disqualification case, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said that the decision to be announced later in the day by Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar will have to be made on merit. Speaking with reporters in Mumbai on Wednesday, ahead of the verdict, CM Shinde said the Election Commission of India had allotted his faction the Shiv Sena name and symbol. «We are official Shiv Sena and we have the majority in the state Assembly… but some are making allegations of match fixing, but they also had a meal with the speaker but we didn't make any such allegations; the speaker is an MLA too and the meeting was official and it's in open light...,» CM Shinde said, responding to Sanjay Raut's allegation of «match fixing.» Earlier, Uddhav faction-led Shiv Sena raised objections to Speaker Narwekar meeting Shinde, ahead of the verdict at his residence on January 7 «Whether it's High Court or Supreme Court, they keep making comments on it… the decision will have to be on merit, as we (the government) are formed on merit,» CM Shinde added. Referring to the 2023 Supreme Court verdict refusing to disqualify the Maharashtra government, CM Shinde said, «They (UBT Shiv Sena) have lost ground as the government is functioning properly and working for the people...» On December 15, 2023, the Supreme Court extended till January 10 the time for the Speaker to pronounce a verdict on disqualification petitions against MLAs including Shinde. The disqualification pleas have been pending since the Maharashtra political crises started.

Israel is sending top legal minds, including a Holocaust survivor, to The Hague this week to counter allegations that it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The robust engagement with the International Court of Justice is unusual for Israel, which normally considers the United Nations and international tribunals as unfair and biased. The decision to participate rather than boycott reflects Israeli concerns that the judges could order Israel to halt its war against Hamas and tarnish its image internationally.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday said that the investigation is continuing into the case in which a four-year-old boy in Goa was murdered allegedly by his mother who was subsequently arrested from Karnataka's Chitradurga. «As soon as the police found something suspicious, that woman was immediately arrested. An investigation is going on, and police will reach the very end of the case,» Sawant told ANI.

Shiv Sena MLA disqualification case, Shiv Sena (UBT faction) leader Sanjay Raut questioned the timing of an upcoming visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the state ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Alleging that PM Modi is «well aware» of the verdict in advance, Raut said Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is «illegally» running the government. "Match fixing… is going to happen in Maharashtra today at 4 pm. The Maharashtra Chief Minister (Eknath Shinde) is illegally running the government. For us, that is a crime.

Bilkis Bano rape case: The eleven convicts who were supposed to return to jail, following the Supreme Court of India order quashing Gujarat government's decision to grant them remission, are yet to surrender. Further reports have said that nine of the eleven convicts remain missing.

Uddhav Thackeray faction. The political temperature rose in Maharashtra on Tuesday ahead of the crucial verdict by the assembly speaker on the cross-petitions by Shiv Sena factions seeking disqualification of each other's MLAs following a split in the party, an outcome which will decide the way forward for the Eknath Shinde government and also the regional outfit's rival groups. In June 2022, Shinde and dozens of other Shiv Sena MLAs rebelled against then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, leading to a split in the Sena and fall of the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition government.

convicts of Bilkis Bano case. «The Maharashtra government should not give any relief. This was a serious and heinous crime.

The Biden administration enacted a new labor rule Tuesday that aims to prevent the misclassification of workers as “independent contractors,” a step that could bolster both legal protections and compensation for millions in the U.S. workforce

Germany’s last remaining major department store chain has filed for insolvency protection, its third filing in less than four years, after its owner ran into difficulties

Brazil has observed the anniversary of last year’s uprising in the capital when thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings and called for a military intervention to remove President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...

A barrage of high-profile lawsuits in a New York federal court will test the future of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products that wouldn’t be so eloquent had they not ingested huge troves of copyrighted human works

The former head of Britain’s state-owned Post Office is handing back a royal honor in response to fury over her role in a miscarriage of justice that saw hundreds of postmasters wrongfully accused of theft

cause of death has been revealed! According to a statement issued by the Coroner’s Court in London Inner South, the ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ hitmaker died from natural causes. The court also added that they will not involve themselves with the singer’s death henceforth. Connor was found unresponsive at a home in London in July 2023.

MoffettNathanson upgraded shares of Paramount Global (PARA) to Neutral from Sell with a new price target of $13, up from $10 per share on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to declare his innocence on charges that he used his influence to help a businessman seek an investment from the Qatari government and conspired to act as an unregistered agent for Egypt.

Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the BJP was indulging in a "gimmick show" through the inauguration of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. The TMC supremo asserted that «she does not support festivities that exclude other communities».

Canadian personal tax rates may be too high, don’t compare favourably with those in the United States and are driving many of our successful people out of the country, but to be fair, there are many considerations other than high taxes that go into a decision to leave and become a non-resident for income-tax purposes.

West Bengal government on Tuesday on the Sandeshkhali incident, where the Enforcement Directorate officials were attacked in the state on January 5. Meanwhile, in the wake of the recent attack on ED, top brass of the Enforcement Directorate held a high level meeting in Kolkata with its agency officials, CRPF, NIA and BSF to chalk out future strategies about the probe and safety of the ED officials.

₹1,180.2 crore by PC Jeweller. The NCLT adjourned the case until 29 January after considering the ongoing settlement talks. SBI initiated insolvency proceedings in June 2023 against PC Jeweller for the default and, besides NCLT, the bank has approached the Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal to expedite the recovery process.

CBI claimed before a Delhi court on Tuesday that eyewitnesses saw Congress leader Jagdish Tytler incite a mob during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots which led to the killing of three people in Pul Bangash area of the national capital. The CBI made the claim before Special Judge Rakesh Syal and urged the court to frame charges against Tytler, a former union minister, in the case. «There is sufficient evidence to frame charges against Tytler.

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Sarah Ransome claimed that she had copies of tapes Epstein had made of some of his high-profile friends, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and British business tycoon Richard Branson, allegedly having intimate relations with an unnamed woman. In a series of emails in 2016 to then-New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan, she wrote about one of her friends, «She confided in me about her casual ‘friendship’ with Donald. Mr. Trump definitely seemed to have a thing for her and she told me how he kept going on about how he liked her ‘pert nipples.» She also wrote that she knew she had intimate relations with Trump at Jeffery’s New York mansion on regular occasions.