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vacancies in the higher judiciary and pending cases, and finalising the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) are the key challenges before Arjun Ram Meghwal who was allocated the law portfolio on Monday. The MoP is a set of documents which guide the appointment, elevation and transfer of high court and Supreme Court judges.

Sebi on Monday said it has lined up 22 properties of seven companies — including Pailan Group, Vibgyor Group and GBC Industrial Corp group — for auction on July 8 to recover money illegally collected from investors. Other firms, whose properties will also be auctioned, are Tower Infotech Group, Waris Group, Teachers' Welfare Credit and Holding Group, and Annex Infrastructure India Ltd. The regulator has initiated the process for the sale of assets of the companies as per orders by the Calcutta High Court.

Supreme Court on Monday said, slamming the Delhi government for not rectifying defects in its plea seeking a direction to Haryana to release the surplus water provided by Himachal Pradesh to the national capital to mitigate its water crisis. A vacation bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Prasanna B Varale noted that affidavits are not being accepted in the registry due to the defect in the petition filed by the Delhi government.

Bihar clearly shows the NDA's concern for tightening its grip over the "social justice politics" in the caste-ridden state just a year ahead of the assembly polls in the state.

Narendra Modi is set to take oath for a third consecutive term on Sunday (June 9), matching the feat of the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, amid tense negotiations between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership and allies over the share of berths for various National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents in the new government.

labourers and sanitation workers, who built new parliament building, have been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and the new cabinet of ministers. Before the ceremony, BJP MP and former Social Justice and Empowerment minister Virendra Kumar felicitated the transgender community members at his residence while BJP MP and former Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat felicitated sanitation workers.

Delhi High Court has directed the constitution of a medical board to evaluate the medical condition of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's close aide Amit Katyal, who sought interim bail on medical grounds in a money laundering case linked to the alleged land-for-jobs scam in the Indian Railways. The High Court observed that even though the report from the jail did not indicate any «underlying medical condition», the accused recently had a bariatric surgery and, therefore, asked the AIIMS director to immediately constitute the team of doctors from minimum three different specialties to ascertain the nature of ailments he is suffering from.

Supreme Court, seeking directions to the Centre and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to submit a detailed report into the stock market crash on the day of election results on June 4, when investors lost billions of rupees.

Congress Working Committee on Saturday said the result was not just a political loss but a personal and moral defeat of the prime minister who sought a mandate in his name. People decisively rejected the type of governance witnessed over the past decade, it said.

Narendra Modi's Union Cabinet, Hindustan Times reported citing sources.The report stated that the TDP is anticipated to secure one Cabinet minister post, along with two positions of ministers of state (MoS) in Modi's cabinet.However, it's worth noting that the party has advocated for four berths– two Cabinet minister posts and two MoS posts.Also Read: Chandrababu Naidu's son Nara Lokesh bats for Muslim reservation: ‘Social justice, not appeasement…’“Besides, there is a possibility of the party being offered the deputy speaker post," a party leader told HT on condition of anonymity.Meanwhile, News18 reported, citing sources, that the TDP and JDU are primarily focused on securing funds for their respective states, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. Their priority lies in obtaining financial packages rather than seeking cabinet positions.Nitish Kumar-led JDU is reportedly interested in key ministries such as Railways, Agriculture, and Rural Development.

A judge rather than a jury will decide whether Google violated federal antitrust laws by building a monopoly on the technology that powers online advertising

members of alleged Sinaloa Cartel members have been arrested in a US police authorities' drug trafficking bust that comes along the lines of brutal murder of a cartel kingpin. According to 'DailyStar UK, the US police arrested some allegedly key members of the Sinaloa Cartel including one of the gang's top bosses who died after a burst of bullets amid the encounter hit him. This came as a savage blow for the cartel as the kingpin was responsible for major drug trafficking operations across the US regions. All the members were arrested based on their atrocious activities around the drug world based out of Imperial Valley, California.

It seemed like a typical dispute between a company and a former employee: Toronto-Dominion Bank sued wealth adviser Gregg Desmarais last month, claiming he and a colleague “abruptly” resigned and violated their contracts by luring away clients with millions of dollars of assets to competitor Raymond James Financial Inc.

The Supreme Court is siding with Native American tribes who said they faced increased costs after taking over management of their own health care programs from the federal government

British tech magnate Mike Lynch has been cleared of charges alleging he orchestrated a fraud and conspiracy leading up to an $11 billion deal that turned into a costly albatross for Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard

U.S. antitrust enforcers have decided to investigate the roles Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI have played in the artificial intelligence boom, according to people familiar with the pending actions

arbitration institutions is not sufficient and we have to ensure that these dispute resolution hubs are not controlled by a "self-perpetrating clique", Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has said. Speaking at the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Chandrachud said now is the time for countries such as India to step up to the occasion to create and promote a culture of commercial arbitration and the robust institutionalisation of arbitration will further the culture of arbitration in the Global South.

the trial finally began in mid-March. Lynch, 58, had been free on $100 million bail. Being accused of a massive fraud represented a dramatic turn in fortune for an entrepreneur once described as the Bill Gates of Britain — a title he seemed to live up to when he negotiated the Autonomy sale that generated a more than $800 million windfall for him.

Fines against Toronto-Dominion Bank tied to U.S. money-laundering probes may total as much as US$4 billion following fresh allegations involving the lender, according to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. analysts — double previous estimates of the potential impact on Canada’s second-largest lender.

New York Times report.The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized the deal over the past week, with completion expected in the coming days. According to two sources familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity due to the confidential nature of the discussions, the Justice Department will lead the investigation into Nvidia, the top maker of AI chips.

Chinese visa scam case: Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court has on June 6, granted “regular bail" to Congress leader Karti P Chidambaram in money laundering case, ANI reported.Earlier in April, Justice Kaveri Baweja, Special judge for Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cases had granted interim bail to three accused in the case on personal bonds of ₹1 lakh each, as per a PTI report. Track | Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE Updates hereThese included Chidambaram's former chartered accountant S Bhaskararaman, besides Vikas Makharia and Mansoor Siddiqi, it added.The ED has registered a money laundering case against Karti Chidambaram and other accused in the alleged scam pertaining to issuance of visa to 263 Chinese nationals in 2011 when his father and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram was the Union Home Minister.Also Read | Nitish Kumar's two-word advice to Narendra Modi at NDA meeting: ‘Jaldi Kijiye’As per the ED, the volume of the laundered money is yet to be established and the alleged payment of ₹50 lakh bribe, as mentioned in the CBl case, cannot be considered as the basis of the present case.The ED registered its case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) following an FIR lodged by the CBI in the same case.Chidambaram was latest in the news for defeating AIADMK's Xavierdass by a margin of 2,05,664 votes from Sivaganga Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu in the just concluded General Elections.Also Read | Bill Gates memoir 'Source Code' next year: Early years, nearly being kicked out of Harvard, Microsoft & more…Chidambaram won Sivaganga Lok Sabha seat with 4,27,677 votes on June 4.