The US Supreme Court passed up a chance to give politicians more power over how federal elections are conducted, declining on Friday to hear a Republican challenge to a Pennsylvania judicial decision requiring the counting of provisional ballots cast by voters who make mistakes on their mail-in ballots. The justices turned away an appeal by…
NEW DELHI: Vodafone Idea CEO Akshaya Moondra’s recent statement about continuing talks with the government seeking relief for adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues have triggered legal backlash, with experts saying the comments are misleading.His statement came just days after a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan, on May…
PARIS: India has identified the restoration of the dispute settlement mechanism as the first priority for WTO members and called for maintaining special treatment for poor and developing countries.After a meeting of trade ministers here, commerce & industry minister Piyush Goyal also reiterated India’s opposition to bringing plurilateral initiatives such as investment facilitation under the…
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and its foreign partners have moved the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court‘s February ruling quashing an arbitral award in their favour in the dispute with the Centre’s $1.7 billion claim over alleged siphoning of gas from a Krishan=Godavari field off the Andhra coast.RIL filed the lead petition…
Senior officials from the United States and China are set to meet this week in Switzerland, marking the most significant direct engagement between the two nations since President Donald Trump launched a trade war through sweeping tariffs on imports. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will represent the US in Geneva,…
A federal judge has ordered Bank of America to pay $540.3 million to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in a long-standing legal battle over underpaid deposit insurance assessments. The ruling, made public on Monday, stems from assessments owed between the second quarter of 2013 and the end of 2014, and includes accrued interest.According to…
Prince Harry announced on March 25 that he had stepped down as a patron of Sentebale, the charity he co-founded in memory of his mother, after a monthslong dispute between the charity’s chair and the board of trustees broke into the open. Harry and his fellow co-founder, Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, said they had quit…
For the past two weeks, Columbia University has been in the news. In a recent development, the university has introduced a series of new policies, including restrictions on demonstrations, revised disciplinary procedures, and an immediate review of its Middle East curriculum—moves that appear to be significant concessions, as reported by CNN.This decision follows the Trump…
NEW DELHI: One person was shot dead while another suffered injuries after a gunfight broke out on Thursday between two nephews of Union state home minister Nityanand Rai in Bihar’s Bhagalpur.According to police officials, the incident occurred after a minor dispute between the two brothers. During this, the two brothers fired at each other. The…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday proclaimed that what belongs to the Hindus must be rightly restored after he said that 54 out of 67 pilgrimage sites were reclaimed in Sambhal district due to the government’s efforts.During his address in the assembly, Yogi pulled up the Samajwadi Party for “playing” with…