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Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google must face trial on U.S. antitrust enforcers’ claim that the internet search juggernaut illegally dominates the online advertising technology market, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

Speaking to ANI, he said that on one side there is the Kaleshwaram project and on the other side there is the power project-inquiry. He questioned how the Congress government was going to pay the pending bills to the contractors. He also said that Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and other Congress ministers had earlier raised questions about power project agreements and demanded the Narasimha Reddy Commission take evidence from CM Reddy, Uttam Kumar Reddy, and others on this matter.

Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday assured action against National Testing Agency officials if they are found guilty of the «irregularities» in the conduct of 2024 National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate). The Minister added that the improvement in NTA, which conducts NEET exam, is needed. «On the recommendations of the Supreme Court, the order has been given for re-test of 1,563 candidates. Some irregularities have come to light in two places. I assure students and parents that the government has taken this seriously,» Pradhan told ANI.

Union Minister of State for Law and Justice (Independent Charge) Arjun Ram Meghwal on Sunday said the new criminal laws will be introduced from July 1, dismissing opposition allegations of not being consulted before the decision was made. Meghwal said the Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Evidence Act will be replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, and Bharatiya Sakshya Act. He added that necessary training programmes and infrastructure development for implementing the new laws are already underway. «The three new laws will be implemented from July 1 for providing timely, speedy, and error-free justice,» Meghwal said during the inaugural session of 'India's Progressive Path in the Administration of Criminal Justice System' held here on Sunday.

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Saturday distributed portfolios among his council of ministers, with his deputy Chowna Mein getting Finance and Mama Natung Home. The council of ministers was sworn in on Thursday. Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein will look after Finance, Planning and Investment departments besides, Tax & Excise, State Lotteries, Economics & Statistics, Power and Non-Conventional Energy Resources, an order issued by state Chief Secretary Dharmendra said. The important Home portfolio was allocated to Mama Natung, besides Inter-state Border Affairs, Public Health Engineering & Water Supply and Department of Indigenous Affairs.

Supreme Court seeking scrapping of the NEET-UG 2024 exam and an apex court-monitored probe by the CBI or any other independent agency into the alleged irregularities in the test held on May 5. The petition, filed by 20 students who had appeared for the medical entrance exam, has also sought a direction to the National Testing Agency (NTA) and others to conduct the test afresh. While hearing separate petitions raising grievances over the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate)-2024, the apex court on Friday had sought responses from the Centre and the NTA on a plea for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into allegations of question paper leak and other irregularities in the exam.

Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal to take down a video recording of court proceedings related to the excise policy case from social media platforms. In the video, Arvind Kejriwal, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor, is seen addressing a trial court. A bench of justices Neena Bansal Krishna and Amit Sharma issued notices to six people, including Sunita Kejriwal, and social media intermediaries X, Meta and Youtube on a petition alleging violation of video conferencing rules of the Delhi High Court. The high court also directed the social media intermediaries to take down similar content if it is brought to their notice that it has been re-posted.

Delhi High Court has dismissed audio entertainment platform Pocket FM's plea seeking an interim injunction against Disney+ Hotstar's Telugu video web series 'Yakshini' over alleged copyright violations. Pocket FM had moved the court contending that Disney+ Hotstar's video series had many similarities with its audio series by the same name. The audio platform also claimed that it had given its audio series ‘Yakshini’ to Disney+ Hotstar for adaptation into a video series. While dismissing Pocket FM's application, the vacation bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna said an interim injunction cannot be granted at this stage since no concrete facts have been established to prove that there is a copyright violation of expression of idea.

Pune Porsche car crash case has moved the Bombay High Court, claiming that the teenager's detention was «illegal» and sought his immediate release. The boy is currently lodged at an observation home in Pune. The petitioner, in its habeas corpus plea, stated that she was compelled to file the petition against the respondents (Pune Police) for their «abuse of process and blatant disregard» for the rule of law, further compounded by the «arbitrary and illegal detention» and its continuation under a remand order passed by the Juvenile Justice Board, Pune, in «complete violation» of the provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, thereby keeping the nephew of the petitioner, the Child In Conflict with Law (CCL), in «illegal detention.»

Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice on a plea seeking a CBI probe into alleged instances of paper leak and malpractices in the conduct of NEET-UG 2024 examination held on May 5. A vacation bench, comprising justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, tagged the plea with existing cases raising similar issues. The bench directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to respond within two weeks. The bench verbally observed that it is mindful of the fact that the issue at hand involves the future of 24 lakh students.

A federal judge says the government’s antitrust case against Google over its advertising technology will go to trial in September, rejecting both sides’ request to rule in their favor as a matter of law

California has become a leader in curbing methane emissions from dairy farms, a major source of the greenhouse gas

Supreme Court on Friday stayed the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s order that initiated insolvency proceedings against Uttar Pradesh government-owned Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam. A vacation Bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice Augustine George Masish also issued a notice to its operational creditor S.R.V. Techno Engineering and posted the matter for further hearing on July 26. S.R.V. Techno Engineering had in 2019 moved the National Company Law Tribunal, Allahabad bench, seeking to initiate insolvency proceedings against Purvanchal for failing to pay debt of Rs 4.43 crore including interest. Thereafter, S.R.V also filed arbitration proceedings against the UP firm Nigam in 2022 where an arbitrator awarded Rs 1.73 crore to it in 2023.

U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declared unlawful a federal ban on «bump stock» devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, rejecting yet another firearms restriction — this time one enacted under Republican former President Donald Trump. The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, upheld a lower court's decision siding with Michael Cargill, a gun shop owner and gun rights advocate from Austin, Texas, who challenged the ban by claiming that a U.S. agency improperly interpreted a federal law banning machine guns as extending to bump stocks. The conservative justices were in the majority, with the liberal justices dissenting.

A consortium of 24 cryptocurrency companies has come together to form the Taiwan Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) Association, aimed at developing self-regulatory standards for the digital asset industry in Taiwan.

The Supreme Court has ruled against a man who wants to trademark the suggestive phrase “Trump too small.”

Maharaj", the debut film of Bollywood star Aamir Khan's son Junaid, on Netflix after followers of Pushtimarg, a Vaishnava sect of Hinduism, claimed that it would hurt their religious sentiments. A single-judge bench of Justice Sangeeta Vishen on Thursday passed an order against the film slated for release on Netflix on Friday. The bench also issued notices to the Centre, Netflix and Yash Raj Films, which has produced the film, and posted the matter for further hearing on June 18. Eight members of the Pushtimarg sect filed a petition against the release after they came across articles about the film, apparently based on the famous Maharaj Libel Case of 1862.

Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput shocked the nation. As we mark the fourth anniversary of his passing, his sister Shweta Singh Kirti and close friend and co-actor Mahesh Shetty have taken to social media to honor his memory and call for justice.

The Supreme Court has made it harder for the federal government to win court orders when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns in a case that stemmed from a labor dispute with Starbucks

A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. last year

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously to preserve access to mifepristone, the drug most commonly used in medication abortions