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LONDON—British judges ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can’t immediately be extradited to the U.S. to face spying charges, opening the way for months of further legal wrangling over the fate of the former hacker. Assange, 52, who has spent the past five years in a London prison, is fighting a drawn-out legal battle with the British government to avoid being sent to the U.S.

PIL) has been moved in the Delhi High Court, praying for a direction to restrain Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from issuing orders while in police custody of the Directorate of Enforcement (ED). Plea also seeks direction not to provide a typist, computer printer, etc. to Arvind Kejriwal while he is in the police custody of ED. Also, to direct the ED to register a complaint, investigate and prosecute Arvind Kejriwal as to how the directions or order issued by him while in police custody reached the possession of Delhi Minister Atishi. There is a likelihood that the order issued by Kejriwal in the capacity of Chief Minister of the NCT of Delhi may influence a fair and proper investigation. A fair and proper investigation is always conducive to the ends of justice and to establishing the rule of law.

PTI reported. The ED produced K Kavitha before the Rouse Avenue court at the conclusion of her custody in the excise case. The central probe agency arrested the 46-year-old on March 15.

US imposed sanctions on Zhao, Ni, and the Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company Limited (Wuhan XRZ) for their roles in malicious cyber operations that jeopardised national security. These measures, taken under Executive Order 13694, aim to curb the abuse of computer networks by hostile actors. Remarkably, the Department of Justice announced a $10 million reward for information leading to the identification and location of individuals and entities involved in APT31's illicit activities.

first hauled to court two months ago on two graft charges, 24 charges of receiving gifts as a public servant and one of obstructing justice. Iswaran, 61, pleaded not guilty to obtaining 10 bottles of whisky, 12 bottles of wine and other items from November 2021 to November 2022 from Lum Kok Seng. The items were worth a total of nearly 19,000 Singapore dollars ($14,000).

The Supreme Court is considering a new abortion case affecting women across the U.S. Abortion opponents want the high court in arguments Tuesday to ratify a ruling from a conservative federal appeals court that would limit access to a medication called...

Arvind Kejriwal, who is in the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) custody. Kejriwal was arrested in the excise policy case on Thursday. "Koi khele rail mein, koi khele jail mein," news agency ANI quoted the North East Delhi MP as saying.

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Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the Delhi Excise Policy case linked to a money laundering case. Delhi Minister and AAP leader Atishi said on Monday that they have resolved not to play with colours and celebrate Holi this year and appealed to the countrymen to join them in the fight against cruelty and evil. "Holi is not just a festival, but a symbol of the victory of good over evil, a symbol of justice over cruelty.

West Virginia has become the 12th state to ban smoking in vehicles with children present

The FBI is telling people who were on board the Boeing 737 Max that lost a panel in midflight that they might be victims of a crime

Singapore’s first ministerial corruption case has expanded with more charges being filed against a former transport minister

Now, many legal luminaries and water experts have also been suggesting the Karnataka government to encourage WFH measures till the city tides over the water crisis. Speaking at a recent event, Justice K Sreedhar Rao, former acting chief justice of the high courts of Karnataka and Assam, proposed a short-term solution of implementing work-from-home policies, particularly for the approximately 15 lakh IT workers in Bengaluru. Justice Rao reasoned that allowing work-from-home arrangements for a year could result in around 10 lakh people could result in around 10 lakh people returning to their hometowns, thereby alleviating some pressure on Bengaluru's resources. Justice Rao remarked that in the 1980s, the city's population was between 25 to 30 lakh, whereas now it has surged to over 1.5 crore. Even as the state of Karnataka faces three years of drought 2003-04, the impact wasn't felt as severely due to the lower population density at that time. He also suggested measures like desilting of lakes.

Are most revolutions doomed to become the very thing they sought to overthrow? In the world of business, this question arises in the case of Apple, widely seen as the world’s top brand. It began with a mission to bust the paradigm of centralized big-frame computing by empowering “the rest of us" with personal computers of our own. This was the story captured by 1984, a TV commercial it aired that year which showed it taking on Big Brother of George Orwell’s novel by that name.

Lok Sabha polls. The saffron party has fielded Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, a stronghold of Congress. The party has released the names of the candidates for the Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Sikkim, Telangana, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. BJP has fielded K Surendran, its Kerala unit president from Wayanad, from where Rahul Gandhi is sitting MP.

FBI...A criminal investigation can be a lengthy undertaking, and, for several reasons, we cannot tell you about its progress at this time." After relatives of 346 people who were killed in two Boeing Max 8 crashes in 2018 and 2019 said that their legal rights have been violated, the US Justice Department in 2022 updated its guidelines for notifying victims of potential crimes. In 2021, the relatives said that their rights were violated when the department deferred a prosecution deal with Boeing without notifying them. The US Justice Department later apologized for not meeting with relatives of the crash victims before the announcement of the deal.

The ghost of old Microsoft hung in the air this past week as the Justice Department took aim at Apple, accusing the tech giant of an improper monopoly with its iPhone. Chief Executive Tim Cook faces the likelihood that the next several years will be consumed with fighting antitrust lawyers intent on dismantling the pillars of the business empire he helped build after the death of Steve Jobs. Cook, who has overseen extraordinary profit and revenue growth since becoming Apple CEO in 2011, can hardly afford the timing of the latest fight.

preventive detention is a draconian measure and any such move based on a capricious or routine exercise of powers must be nipped in the bud, the Supreme Court has set aside a Telangana High Court order rejecting a detenu's appeal. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Thursday said the essential concept of preventive detention is that the detention of a person is not to punish him for something he has done but to prevent him from doing it. «Inability on the part of the state's police machinery to tackle the law-and-order situation should not be an excuse to invoke the jurisdiction of preventive detention,» the bench also comprising Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra said. «Preventive detention being a draconian measure, any order of detention as a result of a capricious or routine exercise of powers must be nipped in the bud. It must be struck down at the first available threshold,» the top court said.

Delhi Liquor Policy case. Earlier during the hearing, the Court also allowed K Kavitha to meet her two sons and other family members in the courtroom, news agency ANI reported. Speaking to the media while leaving the courtroom, Kavitha said, “We are fighting.

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