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A man walks past the office of Directorate of Enforcement in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Supreme Court on Tuesday (July 15, 2025) fixed July 31 for hearing a batch of pleas seeking review of the 2022 verdict that upheld the Directorate of Enforcement’s (ED) powers of arrest and attachment of property involved in money laundering, search and seizure under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi adjourned the matter, which was listed for hearing on Wednesday, to July 31 after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre,…

File picture of Yash Dayal in action for Royal Challengers Bengaluru | Photo Credit: PTI The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday (July 15, 2025) stayed the arrest of cricketer Yash Dayal in connection with an FIR against him for allegedly sexually exploiting a woman.The court also directed that no coercive action be taken against Dayal, who plays for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), till the next hearing, his counsel Gaurav Tripathi told PTI.A division bench comprising Justices Siddhartha Varma and Anil Kumar passed the order on Dayal’s petition challenging the FIR. The FIR against 27-year-old Dayal was registered on July 6…

Jane Austen fans have a good reason to explore the southwest of England this year: It’s the 250th anniversary of her birth, and celebrations abound. Hampshire was both Austen’s birthplace and a source of inspiration; as a novelist, she was most prolific in this bucolic setting. Start out at Jane Austen’s House, her former cottage, featuring an exhibition and themed festivals. The Jane Austen Country Fair will liven up Steventon in July, while Southampton is displaying Austen’s traveling writing desk and hosting the irreverent hit show “Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of).” In Winchester, activities include literary readings, guided walks, access…

Syrian government forces entered the majority Druze city of Sweida on Tuesday (July 15, 2025), the Interior Ministry said, aiming to end clashes with Bedouin tribes that have killed nearly 100 people.The southern city had been under the control of armed factions from the Druze minority, whose religious leaders said they had approved the deployment of Damascus’s troops and called on fighters to hand over their weapons.A curfew was to be imposed on the southern city in a bid to halt the violence, which erupted at the weekend and has since spread across Sweida governorate.Government forces said they intervened to…

Tesla South East Asia director Isabelle Fan poses in front of Tesla Model Y car at India’s first Tesla showroom in Mumbai, on July 15, 2025. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini Tesla, the American electric vehicle company, on Tuesday (July 15, 2025) officially commenced its India operations by opening its first ‘experience centre’ at Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), Mumbai. It will be followed by another one in Delhi NCR soon at an unspecified date.The company announced the launch of Model Y in two variants, starting at ₹59.89 lakh. This model will be imported from Tesla’s factory in China and will be…

Resignation of United Torah Judaism lawmakers leaves Netanyahu with razor thin 61-seat majority in the 120 seat Knesset.Israel’s ultra-Orthodox party, United Torah Judaism (UTJ), has announced it is quitting the country’s fractious right-wing coalition due to a long-running dispute over mandatory military service, threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power. Six of the remaining seven members of UTJ, which is comprised of the Degel HaTorah and Agudat Yisrael factions, wrote letters of resignation, Israeli media reported late on Monday. UTJ chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf had resigned a month ago. A spokesperson for Goldknopf confirmed that, in all, seven UTJ Knesset…

Jensen Huang says Trump administration has assured his company it will be granted licences to export advanced chips.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the technology giant has won approval from United States President Donald Trump’s administration to sell its advanced H20 computer chips, used to develop artificial intelligence, to China. The news came in a company blog post late on Monday, and Huang also spoke about the coup on China’s state-run CGTN television network in remarks shown on X. “The US government has assured Nvidia that licences will be granted, and Nvidia hopes to start deliveries soon,” the post said. “Today,…

ICC World Test Championship 2025-2027 Standings: Australia annihilated the West Indies by skittling them out for the second-lowest total (27) ever in the history of Test cricket to win the third and final Test by 176 runs at Sabina Park in Kingston on Tuesday. This win also meant Australia completed a 3-0 whitewash against the hosts, West Indies, as they continue to lead the fresh new cycle of the World Test Championship (2025-27 ) standings. The WTC 2023-25 finalists have a spotless record in this cycle until now. The Pat Cummins-led Australia have 36 points and 100 PCT (points percentage)…

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Cape Town, South Africa – When Patricia Blows heard a senior police official’s explosive allegations against South Africa’s political and law enforcement elite last week, her thoughts went straight to the stalled investigation into her son’s killing nine years ago. Angelo, an apprentice boilermaker, was about to turn 28 when he was shot in an apparent robbery on a Sunday afternoon in March 2016 while walking home from work in Langlaagte, Johannesburg. To this day, the investigation has gone nowhere despite Blows providing the police with evidence they said they lacked, including witness statements she collected herself. The lack of…