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Incheon (PTI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday underlined the need for focussing on four Is -- infrastructure, investment, innovation and inclusivity -- to achieve sustainable growth in the long-term. The global economy in the past few years has faced trials and tribulations, she said, adding countries have made efforts to protect the vulnerable section of the society at the cost of higher government borrowing.

Speaking at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Governor’s seminar on ‘Policies to Sup-

BJP LOOTED `1.5 LAKH CR FROM K’TAKA, SAYS CONGRESS GEN SECY

Vijayapura: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looted Rs 1.5 lakh crore from Karnataka in the last three and a half years. While addressing a public meeting at Indi, Vijayapura, the Congress General Secretary said, “With the amount of money they looted, you could have built 100 AIIMS hospitals, 30,000 smart classrooms and houses for 30 lakh poor people”. “Today they cannot talk about your issues in front of you, so every day they raise some new issue which has no meaning for your development”, the Congress leader added.

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SHAMI’S WIFE MOVES SC ACCUSING HIM OF ASSAULT, EXTRA-MARITAL RELATIONS

New Delhi: Cricketer Mohammed Shami’s wife Hasin

New Delhi: The Rouse Avenue Court has permitted Enforcement Directorate (ED) to further quiz/record statements of Vijay Nair and Amit Arora in Judicial Custody in connection with the alleged Excise policy scam. Both are presently lodged in Tihar Jail. Vijay Nair is the former communicator in charge of the Aam Aadmi Party. Nair was first arrested by the CBI & later by the ED. Amit Arora Amit Arora is a director of Buddy Retail Pvt Limited. ED on Tuesday got the court’s permission to further record their statement on any two days of this week. The probe agency had approached the court and asked permission to examine the two.

Jahan has moved the Supreme Court against a Calcutta High Court order dismissing her plea seeking to lift stay on the arrest warrant against her husband. A sessions court had stayed the arrest warrant issued against Shami.

Jahan alleged that Shami was having “illicit extra-marital relations and was engaged in sexual activities”, while on his BCCI tours, “in the hotel rooms provided by BCCI even till the present day”. “When the Petitioner raised her voice, she was assaulted & harassed,” she added.

CALCUTTA HIGH COURT ORDERS 2ND AUTOPSY OF SLAIN BJP LEADER’S BODY

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered a second post-mortem examination on the body of booth-level BJP leader Bijaykrishna Bhuiya who was allegedly murdered by TMC goons at Moyna in Purba Medinipur district two days ago. Justice Rajasekhar

Mantha directed that the post-mortem examination be conducted at Command Hospital in Kolkata, which is under the defence ministry, and asked the state government to submit a report to the court by Monday. The entire process will have to be videographed, the court ordered.

NARODA GAM RIOTS: SPECIAL COURT CRITICISES SC-APPOINTED SIT

New Delhi: A special court which acquitted all the 67 accused in the Naroda Gam post-Godhra riots case has criticised the probe conducted into it by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the SC and said the evidence of the prose-