The Tokyo District Court on Friday extended the detention of former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn to April 22 to allow prosecutors to further investigate allegations of his financial misconduct.


Tokyo court extends former Nissan chief's detention


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The long-drawn resolution process of Essar Steel has hit yet another roadblock with the Supreme Court on Friday stopping ArcelorMittal from making payment to lenders to buy the insolvent steel entity, thereby stretching billionaire Lakshmi Mittal's wait to have a foothold in his home country.


SC puts on hold ArcelorMittal's payment for Essar Steel(2nd Lead)


Waking up from slumber, Facebook has said that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violated its guidelines by creating fake profiles on its platform tied to the University of Farmington -- a sham institution that left over 600 students, 90 per cent of them Indians, in detention.


US officials made fake FB profiles to nab Indians


The Supreme Court on Friday restrained steel manufacturing giant ArcelorMittal from acquiring Essar Steel India and ordered status quo on the March 8 order of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) approving Arcelor's bid for Essar.


SC tells ArcelorMittal not to pay for Essar Steel


The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the West Bengal government for alleged harassment of some customs officials by the state police for checking the baggage of Trinamool Congress MP's wife, who is also nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, at the Kolkata airport.


SC notice to Bengal over customs officals' harassment


The Delhi Parsi Anjuman (DPA) has told the Delhi High Court that barring women from entering the Fire Temple during their period of menstruation is done with the purpose of protecting the consecrated fire.


Menstruating women not allowed in Fire Temple: DPA


The Supreme Court on Friday restrained steel manufacturing giant Arcelor Mittal from acquiring Essar Steel India and ordered status quo on the March 8 order of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approving Arcelor's bid for Essar.


SC restrains Arcelor Mittal from paying for Essar Steel


Brunei has defended its move to implement Sharia law, saying it was "about prevention rather than punishment", after global condemnation of its decision to implement the strict Islamic code under which adultery and sex between men is punishable by stoning to death.


Brunei: Controversial Sharia law aimed at 'prevention'


WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange, who was arrested in London on Thursday, will not be given any "special treatment" by his home country, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday.


Assange won't get special treatment: Australian PM


An Indian-origin man has been jailed for three weeks in Singapore and also fined for setting off fireworks near housing blocks during Diwali celebrations last year.


Indian-origin man jailed for bursting crackers


US President Donald Trump's older sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, has retired as a federal appellate judge, ending an investigation into alleged tax misconduct by the Trump family.


Trump's sister retires as judge to avoid fraud probe


Gregory B. Craig, a White House counsel in former President Barack Obama's administration, was charged with lying to the Justice Department and concealing information about work he did in 2012 for Ukraine.


Ex-Obama aide charged with lying to Justice Department


The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea by Vedanta seeking access to its Thoothukudi-located Sterlite Copper Smelting plant in Tamil Nadu to carry out maintenance work.


SC dismisses Vedanta's plea for access to copper smelting plant


Bharatiya Janata Party MP Meenakshi Lekhi on Friday filed a contempt petition against Congress President Rahul Gandhi for his "Chowkidar Chor Hain" comment against Prime Minister Narendra Modi  in the Rafale fighter jet case.


BJP's Lekhi sues Rahul over 'chowkidar' comment


The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a petition filed by producers of biopic 'PM Narendra Modi' against the ban imposed by the Election Commission.


Modi biopic: SC to hear producer's plea on Monday


Once hailed by the left as the champion of transparency and reviled by the right as a leaker of state secrets, Julian Assange is now trapped between them having played a role in the rise of a right-wing president and in the spread of hidden information embarrassing to the progressives.


Assange personifies contradictions of US politics, challenges media (News Analysis)


India has said that UN member countries should send more all-women units to peacekeeping operations instead of mixed units, as a sure means to increase female participation.


UN members should send female peacekeeping units: India


Retired Pope Benedict XVI has broken his silence on the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, claiming that it was caused in part by the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the liberalisation of the church's moral teaching.


Ex-Pope breaks silence on church's sex abuse crisis


The Supreme Court on Thursday slapped a fine of Rs 20 lakh on the West Bengal government for restricting the screening of "Bhobishyoter Bhoot", a political satire directed by Anik Dutta.


SC: Shadow ban on film threat to artistic freedom


The wife of arrested former head of Nissan Motor and Renault was on Thursday questioned by Japanese public prosecutors in connection with the latest financial misconduct allegations that led to his fresh detention last week.


Japanese prosecutors question Carlos Ghosn's wife


Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court stating that he and his sons, Akhilesh and Prateek, were innocent and had been falsely implicated in a disproportionate assets case.

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