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Florida golf course was indicted Tuesday on three additional counts, including attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, the US Department of Justice announced. Ryan Routh, 58, was arrested on September 15 after Secret Service agents spotted him with a gun near the course where Trump was playing. He has already been charged with two gun crimes in relation to the incident.

Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa has asked her Chinese counterpart to ensure the safety of Japanese citizens there after a 10-year-old schoolboy was fatally stabbed

The U.S. Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, alleging that the financial services behemoth uses its size and dominance to stifle competition in the debit card market

loan fraud of Rs 21 crore in Bank of Baroda and Standard Chartered Bank, officials said. Surender Kumar, who was declared «proclaimed offender» by a special court in August last year, had allegedly transferred the loans to his two firms on the basis of a forged Letter of Credit (LC), they said. He was involved in the diversion of funds in conspiracy with promoters of the borrower company during 2009-17, the agency alleged. «The CBI had registered a case on 23.03.2021 on complaint of AGM, Stressed Asset Management Branch (SAMB), Bank of Baroda, alleging that Directors/Guarantors of a private company (borrower), the said private company and unknown public servants and private persons committed fraud during the period 2009-2017 to the tune of Rs 21.21 crore (approx) in the loan accounts of Bank of Baroda and Standard Chartered Bank,» a CBI spokesperson said.

U.S. regulators levied more than US$118 million in penalties against several financial firms for failing to keep employees’ electronic communications, the latest fallout from the so-called WhatsApp investigations.

Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot accorded sanction for investigation against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has its origins more than three decades ago. The case pertains to alleged allotment of compensatory sites to Siddaramaiah's wife B M Parvathi in an upmarket area in Mysuru, which had higher property value as compared to the location of her land which had been «acquired» by the MUDA. The MUDA had allotted plots to Parvathi under a 50:50 ratio scheme in lieu of 3.16 acres of her land, where it developed a residential layout. Under the controversial scheme, MUDA allotted 50 per cent of developed land to the land losers in lieu of undeveloped land acquired from them for forming residential layouts.

Last month, echoing a U.S. announcement three months earlier, the federal Liberals announced a 100 per cent tariff on the import of Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). China wasted no time striking back where it would hurt most, launching an anti-dumping investigation into Canadian canola exports. While there’s no evidence of dumping, there’s a very high likelihood the move is a procedural pretext to halting canola imports. China has long been the biggest canola buyer and was expected to purchase 70 per cent of this year’s bumper crop.

Tata Power on Tuesday reported about a fire incident at its Trombay plant in Maharashtra. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation, and no injuries or loss of life have been reported, the company said in an exchange filing. "...there was a fire incident in the Control Room of Unit No 5 (500 MW unit) of Trombay Plant on September 23, 2024," Tata Power said. The company said it is in the process of assessing the actual damage caused by the fire.

Akshay Shinde, died following a police shooting on Monday evening. Police reported that the 24-year-old sweeper allegedly snatched a revolver from a police officer and opened fire, prompting officers to return fire in self-defense. The accused was taken to the hospital but succumbed to his injuries shortly after.The incident occurred at approximately 6:15 PM when the accused, during transit in a police van, seized a gun from Assistant Police Inspector Nilesh More. According to police accounts, the accused fired three shots, leading to Senior Inspector Sanjay Shinde returning fire, which hit the accused in the temple. More is currently receiving treatment for injuries sustained during the incident.

China's Commerce Ministry says it will investigate the fashion company PVH, which owns brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, for suspected violations of trade rules

One of the top officials with the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic is scheduled to testify in front of the Coast Guard

A former top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried’s fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire faces the possibility of years in prison when she is sentenced Tuesday for fraud

BEIJING — China's Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday it was launching a probe into Calvin Klein-parent PVH Group over alleged business disruptions around its Xinjiang supply chain.

Siddaramaiah said he would decide his future course of legal battle after reading the judgment by which the High Court Tuesday dismissed the legal challenge, he mounted against the August 16 order of Governor Thawarchand Gehlot permitting his prosecution in a case of allotment of housing plots to his wife in Mysuru. The High Court has only limited the scope of investigation to 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and rejected the sanction under section 218 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2003, the CM said in a statement. He would consult legal experts before deciding on the future course of action, he added. Opposition BJP urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to resign in the wake of the court decision.

MRI (fMRI) to understand how Yoga Nidra, a practice known for improving mental well-being, affects the brain. The study, conducted by IIT Delhi, AIIMS Delhi, and Mahajan Imaging, was published in the international journal Scientific Reports. The research focused on experienced meditators and revealed a distinct neural mechanism that allows practitioners to remain restful yet aware, a TOI report stated.

Sweden says that Iran was behind thousands of text messages that were sent to people in the Scandinavian country calling for revenge over the burnings of Quran, Islam's holy book in 2023. Authorities in Stockholm claim that Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard carried out «a data breach» and managed to send «some 15,000 messages text messages in Swedish» over the string of public burnings of the Quran. Senior prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said that a preliminary investigation, carried out by Sweden's SAPO domestic security agency, showed that «it was the Iranian state via the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, that carried out a data breach at a Swedish company that runs a major SMS service».

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National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches at several places in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday as part of its probe against the Hizb-ut-Tahrir, a pan-Islamist organisation aspiring to establish an Islamic caliphate in the country, officials said. They said the searches were being carried out at 11 locations in the state.

Trump has accused the Department of Justice and the FBI of «mishandling and downplaying» the recent apparent assassination attempt on his life, demanding that the state of Florida handle the case. A second bid in two months on 78-year-old Trump's life took place on September 15 at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Ryan Wesley Routh, a 58-year-old owner of a small construction company in Hawaii, was detained in connection with the incident. «The Kamala Harris/Joe Biden Department of Justice and FBI are mishandling and downplaying the second assassination attempt on my life since July,» Trump said in a statement on Monday. «The charges brought against the maniac assassin are a slap on the wrist. It's no wonder since the DOJ and FBI have been coming after me nonstop with Weaponised Lawfare since I announced my first Historic Campaign for the Presidency,» he said.

Young Dolph was a Memphis-based rapper who was quite popular in the region for his works, but he was murdered in January 2024 while attending the funeral of a family member in Memphis. Dolph was declared dead after being involved in a massive shooting incident involving a perpetrator, who now claims that he had been offered $100,000 by Big Jook to kill Dolph, according to a Baller Alert report.