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NDTV. She further hit out at the BJP, Banerjee said that the BJP has bought the court, CBI, NIA, BSF, and CAPF. The Bengal government who moved the Supreme Court against the Calcutta HC's decision said, "I still hope for justice from the Supreme Court". The Bengal CM added, "They (the BJP) have bought the High Court.

Arizona fake elector scheme to re-elect then-U.S. President Donald Trump in 2020, the state's attorney general said on Wednesday. The court papers list a «former U.S. president,» Trump, as an unindicted co-conspirator.

Iran was now able to share its knowledge with others, currently having projects in 20 countries. The Uma Oya project, in the central Badulla district, was constructed with Iranian technical assistance.

Supreme Court on Wednesday made it clear that EVM source codes «should never be disclosed» as the same can be misused. A bench comprising justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta made the verbal observation during the resumed hearing of a batch of pleas seeking directions to tally voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) slips with votes cast through EVMs during elections. Justice Datta questioned the counsel for one of the petitioners as to whether SC can issue directions regarding electronic voting machines (EVMs) «merely on the basis of suspicion» of hacking and manipulating though there is no concrete proof to prove the same. The petitioner raised doubts about whether EVMs are hack proof. The bench assembled on Wednesday to seek a slew of clarifications from the Election Commission of India on the technical functioning of EVMs, flash memory, VVPATs etc.

Boeing is reporting a $355 million loss for the first quarter

Calcutta High Court's cancellation of jobs of 25,753 candidates has become a major political flashpoint between BJP and Trinamool in 2024 Lok Sabha polls, with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged teachers and school staff not to cast a single vote to BJP, Congress & CPI-M, holding them responsible for their job loss. Meanwhile, BJP assured legal assistance to the eligible candidates who lost their jobs due to the Bengal government not giving a list of ineligible candidates to HC. Banerjee lashed out on the day the Education department of the state government moved to the Supreme Court opposing the verdict. Calling the Court «a pilgrimage for the BJP», Banerjee said. «I will not talk about judges but will discuss the judgements. If there were any faults, this could have been subjected to scrutiny but how are the 26,000 jobs cancelled?»

In California’s Ventura County, there’s a well-dressed regular at the local courthouse who always lays down on the job. Comet, a 3-year-old black lab, wears a vest and bow tie to court and settles into the witness box before a trial starts. Jurors, who could be biased by the dog’s presence, are none the wiser.

WASHINGTON—Creating a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court was perhaps the crowning achievement of Donald Trump’s presidency, with three appointees who delivered generational victories, including the elimination of abortion rights and the abolition of affirmative action. But the court has been no balm when it comes to Trump’s personal interests, leaving the former president fuming in several past cases after his appointees rejected his expansive claims of executive power or unfounded allegations of election irregularities.

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₹20,000 on edtech platform Byju’s for the delay in filing its reply to a petition by Surfer Technologies. As an operational creditor, Surfer Technologies had on 7 February filed a section 9 application, initiating corporate insolvency resolution process against the troubled ed-tech firm. Following this, NCLT had asked Byju’s to file its reply.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 scheduled for April 26. A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta, who had reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas seeking complete cross-verification of votes cast using EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) on April 18, had earlier said it needs clarification on certain aspects as there was some confusion in answers given by the EC in its 'frequently asked questions' (FAQs) on EVMs. During the hearing, Supreme Court Judge Datta pointed out to advocate Prashant Bhushan that no incidence of malicious program loading with the symbol had been reported.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said those who call themselves 'deshbakt' are scared of the 'X-ray' of caste census and asserted that no force can stop it. Addressing the 'Samajik Nyay Sammelan' here, Gandhi said it is his life's mission to ensure justice for the 90 percent of the population against whom injustice has been done.

The apex court also took a dig at Patanjali Ayurved’s public notice tendering unqualified public apology, asking if the size of the apology put out in 67 newspapers was similar to its full-page advertisements that it normally issued for its ayurvedic products. It asked Patanjali to bring on record within two days the “original” apology published in newspapers so as to check the size of the advertisement. “Cut the actual newspaper clippings and keep them handy. For you to photocopy by enlarging, it may not impress us. We want to see the actual size of the ad. When you issue an apology, it does not mean that we have to see it by a microscope," a bench comprising justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah said.

Authority (UP-RERA) has fined a homebuyer for repeatedly filing complaint with the authority after getting the relief. UP RERA said that instances of some allottees filing repeated complaints in the same matter and misusing the process of law, are also surfacing. “When such a matter came for hearing before the NCR Bench of Chairman UP RERA, he noticed that this allottee had not approached RERA with clean hands and was misusing the process of law and wasting the time of the bench. It was the fourth complaint of the allottee in the same matter,” UP RERA said.

Odisha hovering between 39 and 42 degrees Celsius, political parties are focusing more on evening meetings and small village gatherings while campaigning for the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. Malkangiri district under Nabarangpur Lok Sabha seat recorded the highest temperature of 42 degrees Celsius recently. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast more heatwaves in the next few days in the state. Odisha's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Nikunj B Dhal has suggested that political parties and candidates undertake election campaigning with adequate measures to beat the heat. BJP candidate for Nabarangpur Lok Sabha seat Balabhadra Majhi said, «I had prepared a chart for my campaigning soon after the declaration of the tickets but altered my campaigning itinerary due to the scorching temperature, focusing more on evening meetings and small village gatherings.»

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that was struck down by lower courts

Bombay High Court on Tuesday ruled that public sector lenders do not have the power to issue Look Out Circulars (LOCs) against citizens and foreigners under the office memoranda (OM) of the Central government. The division bench of Justice GS Patel and Madhav Jamdar ruled this in a clutch of petitions challenging the LOCs issued to restrain people who are indebted to public sector banks from travelling abroad. A detailed order is awaited. The court, however, while terming empowerment of the managers of public sector banks to issue LOCs as ‘arbitrary’, clarified that OMs of the central government were not ultra vires to the Constitution. With this ruling, all such LOCs issued at the request of the public sector banks were quashed and set aside by the high court.

Conservative Brazilians heaped praise on Elon Musk at a rally in the capital of Rio de Janeiro supporting far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro

PM Modi to address poll rally: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing a mega poll rally in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh today. Home Minister Amit Shah will be addressing a public meeting in Kanker Lok Sabha constituency in the Chhattisgarh's Bastar region today. Speaking on PM Modi's tomorrow schedule, BJP state media co-incharge Anurag Agrawal added that the Prime Minister will address campaign rallies on April 23 and 24 in Sarguja, Mahasamund, and Janjgir-Champa Lok Sabha constituencies of Chhattisgarh.

PTI, the court has “only decided on the issue of proof and not faith," a single bench of Justice Gautam Patel said, while dismissing the suit originally filed by Khuzaima Qutbuddin after the death of his brother and former Syedna, Mohammed Burhanuddin, in January 2014 at the age of 102. After the passing of Burhanuddin, his second son, Mufaddal Saifuddin, became the Syedna of the Dawoodi Bohra community. In 2016, following the death of Khuzaima Qutbuddin, his son Taher Fakhriddin continued a legal suit, asserting that his father had been given the authority by a secret "nass" (succession conferment) to be the Syedna's successor.

hookah items in Karnataka, the high court has stated that the measures taken by the state government are in strict accordance with 'Article 47' of the Constitution of India, besides being entirely defensible in the eyes of the law, a TOI report stated. Article 47 mandates that the state should strive to prevent the consumption, with the exception of medicinal use, of intoxicating beverages and of harmful drugs. Rejecting the pleas submitted by proprietors of hookah bars who contested the health department's announcement on February 7 this year, Justice M Nagaprasanna highlighted findings from the New York Poison Control Center study, stating that hookah smoking has the potential to lead to carbon monoxide poisoning and substances such as burning charcoal, utilized in the procedure, can result in heart attacks, reduced lung capacity, breathing issues, cancer, and untimely demise.