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  Sahara Group has said it is unreasonable to ask it to deposit more money as funds worth ₹ 24,000 crore are lying unutilised with SEBI for nine years Sahara Group on Wednesday said it is unreasonable to ask it to deposit more money as funds worth Rs 24,000 crore are lying unutilised with markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for the last nine years and it was hurting the business interests of the group. The statement comes a day after SEBI chairman Ajay Tyagi had said that Sahara is yet to fully deposit the money ordered by the Supreme Court in August 2012 and that the group has so far given only around ₹ 15,000 crore while the total amount due to be deposited is ₹ 25,781 crore. According to SEBI’s 2020–21 annual report, the regulator had paid back only ₹ 129 crore to bondholders and that it was maintaining an escrow account with over ₹ 23,000 crore. In a statement, Sahara Group said Supreme Court had ordered on August 31, 2012 to deposit principal a...

 Johnny Depp was dropped from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise because of the domestic abuse allegations made by Amber Heard, his former Hollywood agent said on Wednesday, backing up the actor’s claim against his ex-wife. “My opinion is that it was related to the accusations that Amber has made,” Christian Carino, who works for Creative Arts Agency, said in a videotaped deposition in the defamation suit filed by Depp against Heard. Depp filed a defamation case against Heard over a column she wrote for The Washington Post in December 2018 in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse”. Heard, 36, never named Depp, 58, but he sued her for implying he was a domestic abuser and is seeking $50 million in damages. Texas-born Heard countersued, asking for $100m, claiming she suffered “rampant physical violence and abuse” at his hands. Depp filed the defamation complaint in the US after losing a separate libel case in London in November 2020 that he ...

  Lawyers for actress say ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star’s denials lack credibility because of past excessive alcohol and drug use A longtime friend and next-door neighbour of Johnny Depp testified on Wednesday that the actor’s former wife, Amber Heard, told him the star threw a phone at her and hit her inside the couple’s Los Angeles penthouse. But Isaac Baruch said he never noticed any evidence of abuse on Heard’s face when he first saw her in the hallway or the next day in the sunlit lobby of their art deco-style building. “She’s got her face out like this to show me and I’m looking, and I inspect her face,” Mr Baruch said of the encounter in May 2016. “And I don’t see anything … I don’t see a cut, a bruise, swelling, redness.” He is the second witness called in the trial over Depp’s allegations that Heard falsely portrayed him as a domestic abuser. Depp says that an opinion piece Heard wrote for The Washington Post in 2018 indirectly defamed him. Heard calls herself ...