New Delhi: An Indian-American businessman Rishi Shah, the former billionaire cofounder of Outcome Health, has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison by a US court. The saga involves a ₹ 8,300 crore ($1 billion) fraud scheme that shook high-profile investors like Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc., and Illinois […]
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The United States Supreme Court has for the first time recognised that former presidents have immunity from prosecution for certain actions taken in office, as it threw out a judicial decision rejecting Donald Trump’s bid to shield himself from criminal charges involving his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss. The court on Monday ruled […]
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Srinagar: Apni Party President Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari, on Monday, urged the central government to restore statehood to Jammu and Kashmir before holding assembly elections here. He emphasized that the statehood must be the same as it was before August 5, 2019. He stated that Delhi-like statehood will not be acceptable to Apni Party. He […]
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The United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has said that PTI founder Imran Khan’s detention and prosecution in the first Toshakhana case — separate from a case involving his wife and undervalued jewellery — and cipher cases were “without legal basis” and were politically motivated to exclude him from competing in the political arena. […]
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For a decade, leaving the European Union was the question that dominated British politics. These days it barely comes up. Which is clearly how Labour Party leader Keir Starmer likes it. He has worked diligently to win back the support of working class voters, millions of whom were lured away five years ago by Conservative […]
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France’s political rivals barely had time to digest the results of National Rally (RN)’s election success, before they had to kick-start a new campaign for the final vote. The anti-immigration party secured one in three votes in the first round of parliamentary elections. They have now set their sights on winning an absolute majority. RN […]
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ISLAMABAD: Traders in all major urban centres of the country staged protests against the government’s decision to increase taxes and electricity prices in the upcoming fiscal year. In Islamabad, traders, responding to a call by the All Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajiran, staged a major protest at Aabpara Chowk, blocking the main road. Heavy police presence was deployed […]
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NEW DELHI: In a major development, India on Monday implemented an overhaul of colonial-era criminal laws, praised as a “watershed” movement by the top judge but which critics said could worsen an already glacially slow pace of justice. Interior Minister Amit Shah said the codes would help India “become the world’s most modern justice delivery […]
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From today (Monday; 1st July) there will be changes to Wiener Linien tickets prices reported the newspaper “Heute”. The prices in some categories will be adjusted. Weekly and monthly public transport tickets will be replaced by new tickets. Vienna Lines is standardising its range of season tickets. The digital 7-day and 31-day tickets have been […]
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France’s far-right National Rally (RN) party has made huge gains to win the first round of the country’s snap parliamentary elections, according to exit polls, as political dealmaking began among rival parties to keep the RN from power and protesters gathered in major cities. Pollsters IFOP, Ipsos, OpinionWay and Elabe projected Marine Le Pen’s RN […]
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