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Tamil Nadu Minister Udayanidhi Stalin was granted bail on Tuesday by a city court for his 'eradicate Sanatana Dharma' remark. The DMK leader appeared before the 42nd Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate following a notice to him based on a petition by social activist Paramesh for his remark. Udayanidhi Stalin, who holds sports and youth affairs portfolio, got the bail with a surety of Rs one lakh. The case has been posted to August 8.

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the US Justice Department, according to court documents filed on Monday night. This plea deal aims to resolve a protracted legal battle involving multiple countries over the release of classified information. Assange will plead guilty to conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information under the Espionage Act.

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider reviving a critical approval for a railroad project that would carry crude oil and boost fossil fuel production in rural eastern Utah. The justices will review an appeals court ruling that overturned the approval issued by the Surface Transportation Board for the Uinta Basin Railway, an 88-mile (142-kilometer) railroad line. Arguments will take place in the fall.

A fascinating story from a doctor practising in South Bombay illustrates how a minor error from a credit card issuer can impact your CIBIL score over time, reported Economic Times. Dr Bhalla was shocked to discover that despite fully settling his credit card debt in 2003, the issuing bank had erroneously reported him as a defaulter, leading to a significant drop in his CIBIL score by 2012.

National Testing Agency (NTA) and the Centre on Monday, asking them to respond to petitions seeking the cancellation of the medical entrance exam NEET-UG amid allegations of irregularities. The court scheduled the hearing in the matter on July 10, two days after the Supreme Court is set to hear similar petitions, including those seeking cancellation of the NEET-UG 2024 exam and a court-monitored investigation. Justice Ashok Kumar Jain of the high court issued the notices to the NTA and the central government and sought their response. The court considered the matter to be serious and scheduled the hearing on July 10, counsel for petitioners Rampratap Saini said. He said a hearing was held on four petitions in the high court during the day.

Justice Department officials that criminal charges be brought against Boeing after finding the planemaker violated a settlement related to two fatal crashes, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Justice Department must decide by July 7 whether to prosecute Boeing. The recommendation of prosecutors handling the case has not been previously reported. In May, officials determined the company breached a 2021 agreement that had shielded Boeing from a criminal charge of conspiracy to commit fraud arising from two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 involving the 737 MAX jet.

The Supreme Court has rejected a settlement between Western states over the management of one of North America’s longest rivers

Worldwide Pride Month events are underway but they are coming at a time when many people who identify as LGBTQ+ say they are facing increasing difficulties at work, ranging from being repeatedly misgendered to physically assaulted

Two Lockheed Martin subsidiaries have agreed to pay the federal government $70 million for overcharging the Navy for aircraft parts

The former CEO of a publicly traded health care company based in Nevada has been found guilty of a multimillion-dollar insider trading scheme

Arvind Kejriwal's bail, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo filed a petition in the Supreme Court of India against the same, the party said on Sunday. The Delhi CM's lawyers have appealed for a hearing on Monday morning, they added. The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Friday had moved Delhi High Court against a trial court's Thursday order of granting bail to Kejriwal in the alleged excise policy case.

Congress and alleged that they were silent on the hooch tragedy in Kallakurchi, Tamil Nadu and called it a murder of 32 Dalits. «Today we are here to discuss news from Tamil Nadu, it is about a hooch tragedy, illicit liquor from Kallakurchi, a district of Tamil Nadu. When I came to hold this press conference and was checking the figures, the number of dead was 56. More than 56 people have died and many of them are critical, still about 200 people are admitted to the hospital. This is such an important issue and I am surprised that Mallikarjun Kharge, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, DMK and all the people of the INDIA alliance are silent on this issue,» said BJP MP Sambit Patra. He further alleged that the INDIA bloc was silent as they felt that it was not serving their interests.

black money law are popping the champagne. For the first time, the court has invoked Article 20 of the Constitution to squash law's retrospective use which was enacted in 2015 to allow the taxman to go after offshore bank accounts, properties and companies of resident Indians. Article 20 lays down that «no person shall be convicted of any offence except for violation of a law in force at the time of the commission of the act charged as an offence». In other words, one cannot be punished under a law which did not exist when the offence was committed. The Karnataka High Court has quashed the criminal proceedings initiated by the income-tax department against persons connected to overseas bank accounts and firms which were closed well before the Black Money Act came into force.

Jessica Alba returns to the screen in the Netflix thriller "Trigger Warning," portraying Parker, a skilled Special Forces operative who returns to her hometown following her father's suspicious death. Directed by Mouly Surya and drawing inspiration from action classics like "John Wick" and «Rambo: First Blood,» the film unfolds as Parker confronts a gang of criminals linked to a corrupt politician, played with fervor by Anthony Michael Hall.

Kallakurichi Hooch Tragedy: The police have arrested Chinnadurai, a key suspect in the toxic liquor tragedy in Tamil Nadu's Kallakurichi, reports say. He is believed to have supplied the deadly liquor to Karunapuram, the village where over 55 residents have died due to its consumption.

BJP cannot evade its responsibility in «promoting corruption and education mafia». The Centre on Friday night operationalised the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, which aims to curb malpractices and irregularities in competitive examinations and entails provisions for a maximum jail term of 10 years and a fine of up to Rs 1 crore for offenders. In a post in Hindi on 'X', the Congress president claimed that 70 question papers were leaked in the last seven years and sought to know why the BJP has taken no action so far. «No matter how much effort BJP makes in the NEET scam, it cannot escape its responsibility in promoting fraud, corruption and education mafia,» Kharge said.

AIADMK legislators staged a walkout from the Tamil Nadu Assembly in protest over the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy. Ruckus erupted in the House after AIADMK leaders demanded discussion on the Kallakurichi illicit liquor tragedy, flagged black clothes and raised slogans in the Assembly. The opposition also demanded the resignation of chief minister MK Stalin.

Kabir Jayanti 2024 will be celebrated nationwide on June 22, identified based on Jyeshtha Purnima. This annual event honors Sant Kabir Das, an influential poet-saint whose teachings transcend religious boundaries, promoting unity, love, and social justice.

Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national, has been extradited from the Czech Republic to the United States in connection with an alleged foiled plot to murder Khalistan separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. This extradition has brought renewed attention to the case against Gupta, who allegedly hired a hitman at the behest of an Indian government official. The US Department of Justice claims Pannun was targeted for exercising his freedom of speech in America. Gupta has pleaded not guilty. Gupta's extradition was approved by Czech authorities on June 3 but was made public just before the visit of US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to India. Sullivan’s visit, primarily aimed at reviewing the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval, was overshadowed by the developments in the Gupta case. Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blazek announced the extradition the same day Sullivan landed in India. Subsequently, a group of Democrat senators wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding a stronger response to the alleged Indian involvement in the plot. According to the US Department of Justice, Pannun is a dual US-Canadian national and political activist. They assert that «Pannun is an American national and political activist who was targeted for exercising a 'quintessential American right: his freedom of speech.'»

Kabirdas Jayanti, also known as Kabir Prakat Diwas, commemorates the birth anniversary of the esteemed mystic poet and social reformer Kabir Das. Celebrated annually on the full moon of Jyeshtha (May or June), this day in India honours Kabir's enduring legacy of love, tolerance, and social harmony. His teachings, which highlight the unity of God and the futility of religious divisions, continue to inspire people across generations. Kabir's poetry, sermons, and aphorisms are cherished worldwide, reflecting his profound impact on spiritual thought.

U.S. Department of Justice plans to focus an upcoming lawsuit against TikTok on allegations that the popular social media platform violated the privacy rights of children, rather than claims it misled adult users about its data privacy practices, according to a source familiar with the matter. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission investigated the potential violations by TikTok and its parent company ByteDance and referred the case to the Justice Department on Tuesday.