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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.

Donald Trump «orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt» the 2016 presidential election, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the former president's historic hush money trial. The opening statements marked the first time that prosecutors have presented a criminal case against a former president to a jury as they accuse Trump of a scheme aimed at preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public.

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suspicious transactions during the course of general elections, according to multiple senior executives in the know. In a letter dated April 15, the RBI asked payment system operators (PSOs) to prevent any potential misuse of electronic fund transfer mechanisms to influence voters or indirectly fund poll candidates.

Delhi High Court will on Monday hear Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's petition challenging the summonses issued to him by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with its probe into an excise policy-linked money laundering case. Kejriwal, arrested by the agency on March 21 after the high court refused to grant him interim protection from coercive action, has also challenged the constitutional validity of certain provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act with respect to arrest, questioning and grant of bail. The plea is scheduled for hearing before the bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Manoj Jain. The AAP national convenor had approached the high court in the wake of the ninth summons issued by the ED asking him to appear before it on March 21. The high court bench on March 20 asked the ED to file its reply with respect to the maintainability of the petition.

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Google has fired 28 employees in the aftermath of protests over technology that the internet company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, further escalating tensions surrounding a hot-button deal

The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing the sale of gasoline containing a higher blend of ethanol for the third summer in a row

A major argument for legalizing the adult use of cannabis after 75 years of prohibition was to stop the harm caused by disproportionate enforcement of drug laws in Black, Latino and other minority communities

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ICs and IHCs, whose shares are trading at a big discount to their book value, according to the consultation paper. Some market observers believe that the significant difference between market price and book value of these companies is hurting liquidity, fair price discovery, and investor interest.

San Francisco has sued Oakland after officials there voted in favor of changing the name of the city’s airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport

forex reserves contracted by $5.4 billion to $643.16 billion as of April 12, latest data published by the Reserve Bank of India showed on Friday.

voted unanimously to move forward with the name-change and scheduled a second vote for final approval on May 9. The airport is currently called Oakland International Airport.

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Geneva-based UN health agency released a technical document on the topic on Thursday. It said it was the first step towards working out how to better prevent this kind of transmission, both for existing diseases like measles and for future pandemic threats.

Crypto exchange Binance is considering re-entering India’s market after having been banned there in late 2023. The potential re-entry would involve a penalty of about $2m, the Economic Times reported Thursday.

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange that was banned by the government in January, is poised to return to India by paying a penalty of about $2 million, people aware of the developments told ET. The crypto exchange will come back as an entity registered with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the finance ministry, they added. FIU is tasked with oversight of trade in virtual digital assets (VDA). Binance will comply with all applicable laws, including the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) as well as the VDA taxation framework, “which it had been sloppily flouting until now”, said one person cited above.

Indiabulls Housing Finance has sought a review of the Supreme Court's February order that allegedly gave wide powers to the Enforcement Directorate to even investigate cases where there exists no scheduled offence under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). A bench led by Justice Surya Kant asked the company to share a copy of its review petition with the Attorney General. Indiabulls in its review petition stated that the apex court on February 12 while disposing of the criminal appeals had «mistakenly enlarged the scope of the powers of the ED beyond the permissible mandate of the PMLA law, and that it is also in conflict with the well settled law in the Vijay Madanlal Choudhary vs Un-ion of India case.»

BS Ajaikumar, founder and executive chairman of specialty cancer care chain HealthCare Global Enterprises (HCG), on Wednesday launched a thematic healthcare and life sciences fund with an initial corpus of $20 million ('166 crore). While the oncologist-turned-entrepreneur contributed 90% of the corpus for the Inviga Healthcare Fund, the remaining 10% is from Equirus Capital founder and managing director Ajay Garg. The fund will invest up to '40 crore in equity and provide strategic expertise to early-stage and mid-level companies of Indian clinicians, scientists and entrepreneurs, Ajaikumar said.