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President Donald Trump has made Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after firing former head Rohit Chopra over the weekend.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ramping up his efforts to be allowed a shot at bidding for embattled conglomerate Religare Enterprises, India-born US investor Digvijay ‘Danny’ Gaekwad has sought a “special exemption" under the country’s takeover code from India’s markets regulator.

Britain's largest water company Thames Water is seeking court approval for up to $3.7 billion of emergency funding to prevent the cash-strapped firm from falling into government administration

Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has decided to lift the restrictions imposed under Stage-III of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) with immediate effect in Delhi and surrounding National Capital Region (NCR).

legal heir certificates as these offer authenticity to heirs for the purpose of passing on the deceased’s assets. Here’s how these certificates differ in terms of purpose and scope, as well as the process for obtaining these.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For Afghan women, who feel deserted by the international community as their lives have been crushed under the brutal rule of the Taliban, there may finally be a potential avenue for justice. We should welcome International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan’s decision to apply for arrest warrants for the Taliban’s Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, who he says bear criminal responsibility for the persecution of Afghan women and girls.

Federal authorities have arrested a former Federal Reserve senior adviser for allegedly giving inside economic information to China

«No tax on income up to ₹12 lakh!» The announcement in the Union Budget 2025, made by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 1 February, was music to the ears of many taxpayers. Take Mr. A, for example, who earns from multiple sources. With a salary, interest income, and capital gains from property sales and the stock market, Mr. A’s total income is around ₹12 lakh—seemingly making him eligible for a significant tax break.

Taber, three hours southeast of Calgary.She was married, had a family, worked as a realtor and died three years ago at the age of 81.It was only after her death on January 21, 2022 that her secret life and her real name was made public.Glabus was in fact a fugitive killer and prison escapee named Sharon Kinne in a case that began in the 1960s and stretched from Missouri to Mexico to Canada.Kinne, who married at 16, was living in a ranch home in the Independence, Missouri, area in March 1960 when her 25-year-old husband, James Kinne, was shot in the back of the head while napping. Independence is just outside of Kansas City.The mother of two told police she had heard her 2-year-old daughter ask, “How does this thing work, daddy?” Then there was a gunshot.Sharon Kinne said she ran into the bedroom and found the toddler holding her husband’s .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol.

Police say a Norwegian-owned and Russian-crewed ship that authorities suspect may have been involved in damage to an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland has been stopped off Norway

Shares of Walgreens dove early Friday, a day after the drugstore chain said it was suspending its dividend, breaking a streak of quarterly shareholder payouts that stretches back more than 90 years

Supreme Court on Friday acquitted a man convicted of cruelty and causing dowry death of his wife and said trial courts were repeatedly making the same mistakes in the such cases. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan said the case was void of the «essential ingredient» as none of the statements of the witnesses contained any specific instances of cruelty or harassment.

Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL against the practice of charging an additional fee for «VIP darshan» and according of «preferential, selective and special treatment» to a certain class of people in temples. A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar said it was for the society and temple management to decide the issue and the court cannot pass any direction.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Religare Enterprises Ltd CEO and chairperson Rashmi Saluja has sued the conglomerate she heads to thwart a potential takeover and extend her tenure, pitting herself against four of the company's five independent directors, in arguably one of the first such instances in a public company. On Tuesday, Saluja filed a case against Religare in the Delhi High Court, seeking the court’s intervention to stop the annual general meeting (AGM) scheduled for 7 February.

Saint John police say two boys aged 10 and 17 were found dead inside a residence Wednesday morning after officers responded to a 911 call.

The latest suspected senior Iranian official caught in Canada sued the immigration department and enlisted a Liberal MP’s office as part of her fight to stay in the country, government records show.

Delhi High Court against an order dismissing his defamation case against Chief Minister Atishi. In his plea, Praveen Shankar Kapoor said while rejecting the defamation complaint and quashing the summons issued by a magisterial court, the special judge went «beyond» the scope of his power in law.

Delhi High Court has refused to stay the Burman family’s open offer to buy an additional 26% stake in Religare Enterprises (REL) from public shareholders. The court has also refused to stay REL’s annual general meeting (AGM) scheduled for February 7, a relief sought by its Bangkok-based minority investor Sapna Govind Rao.

Macrotech Developers MD Abhishek Lodha has described the ongoing dispute with his younger brother's firm House of Abhinandan Lodha on use of trademark 'Lodha' as «very painful matter» for him and asserted that this will not have any impact on the company's operational performances. Macrotech Developers has recently filed a suit in the Bombay High Court against House of Abhinandan Lodha (HoABL), formed by Abhishek's younger brother Abhinandan Lodha, for infringement of its trademarks and sought appropriate injunctions, reliefs and damages.