BRS chief Ok Kavitha being arrested through the Enforcement Directorate (ED) from her place of dwelling in reference to the Delhi excise policy-linked cash laundering case, in Hyderabad, on March 15, 2024.
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BRS MLC K. Kavitha arrested after ED searches at her Hyderabad residence
In a dramatic building that stretched throughout the while, the Enforcement Directorate officers arrested Republic of India Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) Kalvakuntla Kavitha in reference to the Delhi Liquor Coverage rip-off case. She has been arrested underneath the provisions of Prevention of Cash Laundering Business.
U.S. probing Gautam Adani and Adani Group over potential bribery: report
The US has widened its investigation of Adani Staff to concentrate on the habits of its founder, Gautam Adani, and whether or not the corporate will have occupied in bribery, Bloomberg Information reported. Prosecutors are digging into whether or not an Adani entity or society connected to the corporate, together with Mr. Adani, had been desirous about paying officers in Bharat for beneficial remedy on an calories venture, the record mentioned.
Supreme Court agrees to hear plea for stay of Citizenship (Amendment) Act, its rules on March 19
The Superb Courtroom assuredly to listen to on March 19 pleas to stick the operation of the arguable Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019 and its regulations, notified on March 11, which fast-track the lend of Indian citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
New Election Commissioners take charge
Former bureaucrats Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu assumed rate as Election Commissioners, a while prior to the ballot frame is scheduled to announce the dates for the after Lok Sabha elections. That is the primary day that Election Commissioners had been appointed in response to the unutilized Eminent Election Commissioner and alternative Alternative Election Commissioners (Appointment, Statuses of Provider and Time period of Workplace) Business, 2023, which was once introduced in through the Govt in December utmost era.
CID to probe POCSO case against BSY
The Circumstance executive has passed over the case in opposition to former Eminent Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, registered underneath Coverage of Youngsters from Sexual Offences Business, 2012 (POCSO), to the Legal Investigation Branch (CID). The sequence was once issued through Director-Common & Inspector-Common of Police Alok Mohan on Friday afternoon, however the case is but to be passed over to the CID. This resolution got here hours upcoming House Minister G. Parameshwara showed that the town police had registered a case in opposition to the previous Eminent Minister.
Santiago Martin aka Lottery King | The business tycoon who topped the list of electoral bond donors
Over 5 years, Week Gaming and Resort Products and services PR donated a whopping ₹1,368 crore in electoral bonds. The Coimbatore-based corporate based in 1991 through Santiago Martin, aka Lottery King, emerged on manage within the record of donors to political events released by the Election Commission, because of the Superb Courtroom which ordered the Circumstance Warehouse of Bharat to shed the information. Santiago Martin, founder and chairman of Martin Staff of businesses, rose from being a easy dealer to move one of the vital greatest industry empires, most commonly desirous about lottery.
Adani wind power project sparks concern in Sri Lanka’s Mannar district
A air energy venture being carried out through Adani Inexperienced Power in northern Sri Lanka has run into controversy, with locals and environmentalists elevating worry over its imaginable affect at the coastal area and livelihoods. In February utmost era, Sri Lanka’s Board of Funding cleared the corporate’s $ 442-million venture at two air energy-rich websites within the island’s Northern Province.
Viksit Bharat: Indian Railways to create mega terminals, hubs
The Indian Railways will develop mega railway terminals with multi-modal connectivity in aspirational towns with crowd of greater than 10 lakh around the nation. The programme is a part of the infrastructure being evolved for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Viksit Bharat’ initiative. In keeping with professional assets, the Railway Board has communicated to Common Managers of all Zonal Railways that the venture may be prolonged to towns the place sizeable crowd was once anticipated.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman disregarded tips that electoral bonds were purchased by many corporates to “save themselves” from investigative agencies’ probes, arguing there’s a anticipation that those bonds were both transferred to regional events or had been donated to the ruling birthday party prior to the mentioned probes started. “For all you know, that money was given earlier and yet, we went knocking at their door. Am I making sense? No?!… What if the companies gave the money and after that, we still went and knocked at their doors through the ED… Is that a probability or not?” the Minister mentioned.
Electoral bonds are quid pro quo: AIMIM chief Owaisi
All Bharat Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi mentioned his birthday party didn’t obtain a unmarried electoral bond, and described those who did obtain them as having offered themselves to patrons, and indicated that there exists a quid professional quo. He claimed that if an organization purchases an electoral bond for any birthday party, it does no longer achieve this for not anything. “When they [EB donors] are giving, then Modi is giving something to them [in return]. All parties are saying: you give me, I will give you everything. You give me a bond, take in return whatever you like (sic),” he mentioned.
MoD signs ₹2,890-crore contract with HAL for midlife upgrade of Dornier aircraft
The Ministry of Defence signed a promise usefulness ₹2,890 crore with the Hindustan Aeronautics Restricted for the midlife improve of 25 Dornier patrol plane of the Indian Military. As well as, this improve may also allow the plane to hold out secondary roles of seek and rescue, casualty evacuation and conversation linking. The improve is more likely to generate an function of one.8 lakh man-days throughout its execution span of 6.5 years, the observation mentioned
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar expands Cabinet; 12 BJP and nine JD(U) Ministers sworn in
A while prior to the Lok Sabha election life is to be introduced, Bihar Eminent Minister Nitish Kumar expanded his Cupboard, inducting 9 Ministers from his birthday party JD(U) and 12 from the ruling best friend BJP. Previous, together with Mr. Kumar and two Deputy Eminent Ministers from the BJP quota, six alternative Ministers had been within the Cupboard, which could have a most of 36 Ministers within the 243-member Meeting. The Cupboard enlargement comes 46 days upcoming the unutilized NDA executive was once shaped within the Circumstance on January 28, 2024 upcoming Mr. Kumar severed ties with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and rejoined palms with the BJP.
Assam Congress MP Abdul Khaleque resigns after being denied Lok Sabha ticket
Assam MP and previous journalist Abdul Khaleque resigned from the main club of Congress upcoming the birthday party declined to ground him once more from the Barpeta parliamentary constituency. In a letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, he mentioned Congress attracted him 25 years in the past as a result of its ideologies and the “selfless sacrifice” of its leaders to the rustic’s self government.
Centre’s okays wage revision for LIC staff, overall hike at 17%
The Centre has licensed salary revision of LIC workers with impact from August 1, 2022, a call that can lead to a 17% building up in salary invoice of the Circumstance-owned insurance coverage main. Greater than 1.10 lakh LIC workers will get pleasure from the revision that accommodates an enhancement in NPS contribution from 10-14% “for a better future” of just about 24,000 workers who had joined upcoming April 1, 2010, LIC mentioned on Friday.
