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, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo [1/2] Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023 , opens new tab WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) - President  Joe Biden 's administration on Friday urged the  U.S. Supreme Court  to turn away billionaire businessman Elon Musk's dispute with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk in December asked the justices to take up his appeal after a lower court upheld his consent decree with the SEC that arose after he posted on Twitter, now called X, in 2018 that he had "funding secured" to take his electric...

A Muslim boy reads the Koran at a madrasa or religious school on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan in the northern Indian city of Mathura August 23, 2009. , opens new tab NEW DELHI, March 23 (Reuters) - A court in India essentially banned Islamic schools in the country's most populous state, a move that could further distance many Muslims from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist government ahead of national elections. The Friday ruling scraps a 2004 law governing madrasas in Uttar Pradesh, saying it violates India's constitutional secularism and ordering that students be moved to conventional schools. The Allahabad High Court order affects 2.7 million students and 10,000 teachers in 25,000 madrasas, said Iftikhar Ahmed Javed, head of the board of madrasa education in the state, where one-fifth of the 240 million people are Muslims. "The state government shall also ensure that children between the ages of 6 to 14 years are not left without admissio...

Item 1 of 4 A security personnel walks past a gate of the office of Directorate of Enforcement in New Delhi, India, March 13, 2024. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis [1/4] A security personnel walks past a gate of the office of Directorate of Enforcement in New Delhi, India, March 13, 2024. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis  , opens new tab NEW DELHI, March 22 (Reuters) - India's main financial crime fighting agency has investigated well over a hundred opposition politicians in the past decade, drawing criticism it has become a weapon of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party to cull political opponents. In the latest in a wave of detentions, raids and questioning of opposition politicians, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested  one of Modi's most trenchant critics on Thursday, just a month before India holds a national election. India's opposition has been struggling to close the wide gap in opinion polls with Modi in the run up to the election starting on April 19, but it says it...

  Summary Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal sent to custody in graft case Kejriwal's arrest is a blow to opposition ahead of elections Kejriwal's AAP party calls it murder of democracy AAP members protest around the country Investigators say Kejriwal is kingpin, needs to be questioned NEW DELHI, March 22 (Reuters) - Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister of Delhi's capital territory and a key opposition leader, was remanded in custody on Friday until March 28, a blow to the opposition after he was arrested in a graft case weeks before a general election. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), India's financial crime agency,  arrested  Kejriwal on Thursday in connection with corruption allegations relating to the city's liquor policy. His detention, less than a month before India begins voting on April 19, is a setback for his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the larger opposition alliance as he is a key campaigner who entered politics on an anti-corruption platform. All the main leaders o...