SUNVILLA SAMACHAR

This BSP MP compared Budget 2023 with Shahrukh Khan’s movie ‘Pathan’?

Visa delay forces Usman Khawaja to miss his flight to India

Budget Reaction: Union Budget 2023 was discussed by Narayana Multispeciality Hospital Ahmedabad

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Agency News: New Delhi

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday raised the personal income tax rebate limit, doled out sops on small savings and announced one of the biggest hikes in capital spending in the past decade as she did a tight rope walk in the Budget between staying fiscally prudent and meeting public expectations in the year before general elections. The personal income tax rebate limit has been increased to Rs 7 lakh from the fiscal year starting April 1 under the new tax regime from the previous Rs 5 lakh. Tax slabs has been cut to five from seven earlier. Also, the maximum income tax rate has been reduced to about 39 per cent from 42.7 per cent after a reduction in the highest surcharge to 25 per cent from 37 per cent. Besides, the deposit limit for senior citizen savings schemes has been doubled to Rs 30 lakh and for Monthly Income Account Scheme to Rs 9 lakh. A new small savings scheme for women, offering 7.5 per cent.

Nirmala Sitharaman announces new, one-time savings scheme for women

‘Pay ₹2 cr to Pfizer or go to jail’: Delhi HC to Triveni Interchem director

Hemant Soren hopes to connect all districts with flight services

Jharkhand CM flags off JamshedpurCalcutta flight

Agency News: Jamshedpur

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren launched the Jamshedpur-Calcutta flight service on Tuesday with the hope to connect all 24 districts with air service. Launching the flight from Tata Steel-managed Sonari Airport in Jamshedpur, Soren said with this service, the state has three operational airports which would be further increased to five later this year. “With this flight, we

Govt’s ‘mitr kaal’ budget proves it has no roadmap to build India’s future: Rahul Gandhi

Agency News: New Delhi have airports functional at Ranchi, Deoghar and Jamshedpur and soon we are going to start flight service from Bokaro and Dumka. We also have a proposal for an airport at Sahebganj. “The government is working on an action plan to facilitate air connectivity with all districts,” said Soren. According to sources in the chief minister’s secretariat, flight services are likely to commence from May at Bokaro.

Big Tech Treating Employees Shabbily Not Agreeable: Junior IT Minister

Agency News: New Delhi

Alia Bhatt seen at a press conference for the Zee Cine Awards.

The Odisha Police on Wednesday suspended slain minister Naba Kishore Das’ personal security officer on the charge of dereliction of duty. Brajarajnagar Police Station inspector-in-charge Pradyumna Kumar Swain and Gandhi Chhak Police Outpost incharge Sashibhusan Podha were also transferred from their place of posting, an official said. The move comes after the state government had on Tuesday transferred Jharsuguda superintendent of police .

Agency News: New Delhi

In her 2023 Union Budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the setting up of a new, one-time savings scheme for women and girls, called the Mahila Samman Bachat Patra. The scheme will have a deposit facility of up to ₹2 lakh for women. The savings scheme will be valid for a period of two years, up to March 2025. It will provide a fixed interest rate to the beneficiaries at 7.5% per annum and will also offer a partial withdrawal option. Ms. Sitharaman also announced modifications in the Senior Citizen Savings Scheme. The maximum deposit limit under this scheme will be enhanced to ₹30

The one-time savings scheme announced by FM Nirmala Sitharaman will provide a fixed interest of 7.5% per annum lakh from ₹15 lakh. The Finance Minister also announced an increase in the maximum deposit limit of the Monthly Income Account Scheme. This will be increased from ₹4.5 lakh to ₹9 lakh for single accounts, and from ₹9 lakh to ₹15 lakh for joint accounts. The announcements were made under the financial sector priorities listed.

Agency News: New Delhi

The Delhi high court has directed a private company to pay ₹2 crore in damages to pharmaceutical company Pfizer for “wilful disobedience and contempt of the court orders” where it was directed to stop the sale of a compound Palbociclib, patent of which is held by Pfizer.

In an order dated January 24, 2023, justice C Hari Shankar said that in case of failure of payment, Kamlesh Singh, director of Triveni Interchem Private Limited, will have to spend two weeks in Tihar jail. “….the court deems it appropriate to dispose of this application by directing Kamlesh Singh, the director of Defendants 1 and 2 to pay, to the plaintiff, an amount of ₹ 2,00,00,000/- within a period of two weeks from today, failing which he shall be taken into custody and detained in a civil prison for a period of two weeks at Tihar Jail, Delhi,” the court said. According to Pfizer’s lawyer Pravin Anand, Triveni Interchem Private Limited and Triveni Chemicals were found advertising and offering ‘for sale’ generic Palbociclib in active pharmaceutical ingredient.

The trend of multi-billion-dollar tech companies announcing mass layoffs earned the disapproval of junior IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Wednesday, as he invited Indians sacked by the likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft to return and join firms like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). “Socalled Big Tech companies treating their employees and treating their workforce in what is really quite a shabby manner is obviously not agreeable to any one of us,” Mr Chandrasekhar told.“Our whole tech economy is growing so fast... we are limited by the availability of talent. I have addressed two groups of people who’ve been laid off recently, and I’ve said to them, come back to India because every company in the startup ecosystem is looking for world-class talent,” he said.“I think there is a growing realization that India is the place to be for the next few years as a digital economy and the opportunities.

J&K Gets Rs 35,581.44 Cr Allocation, Majority for Central Assistance

Agency News: New Delhi

The Union Budget 2023-24 on Wednesday allocated Rs 35,581.44 crore to Jammu and Kashmir, the majority of it being central assistance for the union territory. Other union territories — Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Ladakh, Lakshadweep, Puducherry and Delhi — too got their share. According to the Budget papers, Rs 35,581.44 crore has been allocated to Jammu and Kashmir, of which Rs

33,923 crore is central assistance. This allocation is substantially lower than the current fiscal’s revised estimate of Rs 44,538.13 crore The central assistance given to the union territory is to meet the resource gap and a special fiscal support of Rs 9,486.13 crore. The Jammu and Kashmir administration.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday slammed the Modi government, claiming that its ‘mitr kaal’ budget has no vision to create jobs as well as no plan to tackle inflation, and proves that the Centre has no roadmap to build India’s future. Gandhi’s reaction came after the presentation of the Union budget for 2023-24 by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in which the government raised the personal income tax rebate limit, doled out sops on small savings and announced one of the biggest hikes in capital spending in the past decade. ”’Mitr Kaal’ Budget has: NO vision to create Jobs. NO plan to tackle Mehngai. NO intent to stem Inequality. 1% richest own 40% of the wealth, 50% poorest pay 64% of GST, 42% youth are unemployed -- yet, PM doesn’t Care!” Gandhi said in a tweet. “This Budget proves Govt has NO roadmap to build India’s future,” he said.

Delay in bail plea hearing of activists accused in Delhi riots case irks SC

Agency News: New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed displeasure at Delhi police seeking adjournment of hearing on pleas against the bail granted to three student activists in the 2020 northeast Delhi riots case on the ground that a senior law officer representing them was busy in another court. A bench of Justice S.K. Kaul and Justice A.S. Oka observed that solicitorgeneral Tushar Mehta may be busy in several matters, but some alternative arrangements have to be made so that the matter could be heard. “...If no alternative arrangement is made, we will presume that the government has nothing to say in the matter,” the bench said while posting the matter for hearing on February 21. When the pleas had come up for hearing before the apex court on January 17, a deferment was sought by the police stating that Mehta, who is representing the state, was arguing before a constitution bench. The bench had then posted the matter for hearing on Tuesday.

Action against 5 private hospitals in Chhattisgarh for overcharging patients

Agency News: Raipur

Chhattisgarh health department has taken action against five private hospitals for allegedly overcharging patients during treatment under a government scheme, officials said on Wednesday. Out of the five hospitals, fines in the range of Rs 3 lakh to Rs 6 lakh have been imposed on four medical facilities and three of them have also been de-empanelled from the scheme. Another hospital faced only de-empanelment action, they said. The action against these healthcare facilities - four located in capital Raipur and one in Bilaspur district - was taken

89806 69994 on Tuesday after irregularities were found during an audit of the hospitals empanelled under ‘Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna Dr Khoobchand Baghel Health Sahayata Yojna’, the officials said. The recent audit unearthed irregularities and it was found that extra money was charged from patients in Ramakrishna CARE Hospital, Anjali Nursing Home, Maher Hospital and Shah Nursing Home located in Raipur and Shri Balaji Hospital in Bilaspur, following which the state health services director ordered action against these facilities, a statement issued by public relations.

Delhi LG approves convening of MCD House session to elect mayor on Feb 6: Official

Agency News: New Delhi Delhi Lt Governor VK Saxena has approved convening of a MCD (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) House session to elect the mayor on February 6, Raj Niwas officials said on Wednesday. The date had been proposed by the Delhi government, an official added. The L-G has approved February 6, as proposed by the deputy chief minister and the chief minister for holding the adjourned first meeting of the MCD, and asked for the election of mayor, deputy mayor and the six-member standing committee to be held,” his office said. The MCD had proposed February 10 to convene a session of the House to elect the mayor, sources said on Monday. The Kejriwal government had suggested three dates -- February 3, 4 and 6. The mayor could not be elected when the House met on January 6 and January 24 after the sessions were adjourned amid acrimonious exchanges between AAP and BJP councillors.

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Yes Bank’s AT1 bonds tell the tale of broken financial regulation in India

This BSP MP compared Budget 2023 with Shahrukh Khan’s movie ‘Pathan’?

Agency News: New Delhi

Bengal Finance Minister Gives ‘Zero’ Rating to Union Budget, Says ‘Doesn’t Address Major Inflation Issue’

Agency News: New Delhi

BSP leader Malook Nagar on Wednesday said the relief granted to the common people in the Union Budget has made it a hit like the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer “Pathaan”. “The relief given to the common people in the Budget has made it a hit as the movie ‘Pathaan’,” Nagar, a Lok Sabha member from Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh, told in a video. He said the Income Tax relief granted in the Budget will ensure that

Kapilkumar M. Hirpara Editor

The saga of the Additional Tier-1 (AT1) bonds continues. It started with Yes Bank selling these bonds to retail investors as high-interest yielding fixed-deposits, what followed was a chain of events in early 2020 — the bank getting into trouble because of bad loans, the RBIappointed administrator writing them off, the bondholders suing in court, the Bombay High Court setting aside the write-off decision, and the case now likely to go to the Supreme Court. This series of events illuminates the different ways in which financial regulation in India is broken. In 2016 and 2017, Yes Bank issued AT1 bonds to increase its capital base. The bonds provide higher yields than other comparable bonds. The catch? In case of a crisis, they can be converted to equity, or even be written off. That is, if you purchased these bonds, you would get a higher interest rate (than say a fixed deposit), but in the event that the bank got into trouble, there was a chance that you wouldn’t be paid interest, or your bonds would get converted to equity. By March 2020 it was public knowledge that Yes Bank was in financial trouble owing to some of its loans becoming Non-Performing Assets (NPAs). The RBI appointed an administrator to deal with the bank’s solvency, superseding the Board. The administrator put in place a scheme for its revival — State Bank of India along with some other financial institutions would purchase equity, while AT1 bondholders would get nothing. The first problem is the marketing pitch for the bonds. It is alleged that Yes Bank employees overemphasised the returns, and downplayed the risks of investing in these bonds. Mis-selling by bank employees is not new. They have been known to recommend the highest fee-paying product, and rarely disclose costs and lock-ins. Consumer protection regulation by the RBI has yet to mount a comprehensive response to such practices.

Budget 2023-24 Has Vision for ‘New India’, Aims to Serve 130

more people will file Income Tax returns. The policies announced in the Union Budget will strengthen the economy and ensure that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of a USD 5 trillion economy turns true.

Budget 2023 ‘Anti-people & Opportunistic’: Mamata Banerjee

Agency News: New Delhi

Terming the Union Budget “anti-people”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said it will deprive the poor. Addressing a government function at Bolpur in Birbhum district, she claimed that the changes in the income tax slabs will not help anyone. “This Union Budget is not futuristic, totally opportunistic, anti-people and anti-poor. It will benefit only one class of people. This Budget will not help address the country’s unemployment issue. It has been prepared with an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections,” she said. “The changes in the income tax slabs will not help anyone. There is no ray of hope in this Budget — it is a dark dark budget. Give me half an hour and I will show you how to prepare a Budget for the poor,” she added. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman placed the Budget for 2023-24 in Parliament. She announced no tax for those with an annual income of up to Rs 7 lakh under the new tax regime.

West Bengal finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya slammed the Union Budget 202324 announced on Wednesday, saying it had not addressed the massive issue of inflation. Giving it a ‘zero’ rating, she said chief minister Mamata Banerjee had also called the new budget “opportunistic and not futuristic” besides being “anti-poor”. “This is absolutely not for the middle class; they have created confusion with two tax regimes and have not addressed the inflation problem, which is major. How can they not mention the inflation issue?” Bhattacharya told. Asked about the 66 percent increase in allocation on Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana funds to Bengal, Bhattacharya said there was a big difference in what the central government allocates and what it disburses. “We are sure that what they allocate and what they give,

Despite Paying Over Rs 1.75 Lakh Cr Income Tax, Delhi Got Only Rs 325 Cr, Says Kejriwal Accusing the Centre of meting out step-motherly treatment to the national capital

there is a big difference in it. We are still awaiting funds from the last allocation despite raising an issue with the Centre. They have not given disbursed money for ‘100 days’,” she said. On distribution of projects to different states, Bhattacharya said the Centre had only given a package to Karnataka and not any other state. “Why are there no projects for Bengal or other states? They always declare projects as per election schedule,” the minister added. She also criticised funds allotted for the upliftment of backward classes, saying it was merely Rs 15,000 crore in three years that amounted to Rs 5,000 crore per year.

Uma Bharti Links Crime Against Women in MP to Drinking, Pushes for Converting Liquor Shops into Cow Shelters

Agency News: Bhopal

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Agency News: New Delhi

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said despite paying more than Rs 1.75 lakh crore income tax last year, the city was allocated only Rs 325 crore in the Union Budget 202324. Accusing the Centre of meting out step-motherly treatment to the national capital, he said the budget has offered no respite from the twin problems of inflation and unemployment. “Step-motherly treatment again with the people of Delhi. The people of Delhi paid more than Rs 1.75 lakh crore income tax last year. Out of that only Rs 325 crore was given for the development of Delhi. This is a gross injustice to the people of Delhi,” Kejriwal said in a series of tweets. “There is no relief from inflation in this budget. On the contrary, this budget will increase inflation. There is no concrete plan to remove unemployment. Unfortunate to reduce education budget from 2.64 per cent to 2.5 per cent. Reducing health budget from 2.2 per cent to 1.98 per cent is harmful,” he said.

Cr Indians: UP CM Adityanath 400 Companies of Central Forces to Be Deployed in Tripura for Assembly Polls

Agency News: Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said the Union Budget 202324 has a vision for ‘New India’. “The budget talks about the vision for New India, the country’s prosperity and aims to serve 130 crore Indians,” he said in a series of tweets in Hindi. “The budget will fulfil the expectations and aspirations of all sections of society, including the poor, farmers, youth and women. Undoubtedly, this budget will prove to be a milestone in making India an economic superpower,” he added.

Jharkhand HC takes suo motu cognizance of Dhanbad high-rise fire tragedy

Agency News: Ranchi

The Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognizance of the Dhanbad high-rise fire tragedy in which 14 people were charred to death. A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice Deepak

Roshan issued a notice to the state government in the incident. The court, while referring to news reports, took cognizance of the fire tragedy. The case will be heard again on Thursday. At least 14 people, including women and children, were charred to death on Tuesday after a major fire broke out on the second floor of ‘Ashirwad Tower’ in the Joraphatak area of Dhanbad, around 160 km from the state capital Ranchi. Family members, who lost their near and dear ones in the devastating fire, were finding it difficult to identify charred bodies at a hospital here.

New Vande Bharat Express trains from Mumbai to undergo trials in ghat sections before launch

Agency News: Mumbai

Two soon to be launched Vande Bharat Express trains from Mumbai will undergo trials in the hilly ghat sections on the city’s outskirts without deployment of additional locomotives before their inauguration, railway officials have said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to launch Vande Bharat Express trains on Mumbai-Solapur and Mumbai-Shirdi routes on February 10, they said. To cut the travel time, railway authorities have decided to run these semi high-speed trains on both the routes without attaching bankers, the additional locomotives used for pushing trains from the rear in high gradient areas in ghats, the officials said on Tuesday. The Vande Bharat Express between Mumbai and Solapur is likely to run via the Bhor ghat (located between Karjat and Khandala on way to Pune) and is expected to cover a distance of around 400 km between the two places in 6.35 hours. On the other hand, the Mumbai-Shirdi high-speed train is expected to run via the Thal ghat and cover a distance of around 340 km between them in 5.25 hours, they said.

Retired professor couple murdered

Agency News: Patna

An elderly couple, both retired professors, who lived alone were stabbed and slashed to death at their home in Ara town of Bhojpur district on Monday, with Bihar police still unsure of the motive. Mahendra Singh, 72, and Pushpa Singh, 66, were found dead around 10.30pm on Monday after their Lucknow-based daughter rang up relatives when her calls to her parents went unanswered. Sources said the couple were active BJP

Agency News: Agartala

Atotal of 400 companies of central forces will be deployed in Tripura to ensure free and fair assembly elections later this month, a senior police officer said on Wednesday. Elections to the 60-member assembly will be held on February 16. “Around 200 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) will be arriving here by first week of February for area domination, patrolling and flag march apart from counter insurgency operations,” Assistant Inspector General (Law & Order) Jyotishman Das Chowdhury said.

“In total, 400 companies of central forces will be deployed in the state to ensure free, fair and peaceful elections. This will be in addition to the state’s own security personnel and BSF jawans who guard the India-Bangladesh border,” the officer said. Out of the 3,328 polling booths, 1,100 have been categorised as ‘sensitive’ and 28 were identified as ‘critical’, he said. “A special drive for vehicle checking has been launched and so far 11,000 vehicles have been inspected,” Chowdhury said. Contraband worth Rs 5.89 crore has been seized by security forces in the last few weeks, he said, adding, firearms were also recovered by the law enforcement agencies.

Adoor quits over caste row, seeks police probe

Agency News: Bangalore

Filmmaker Adoor

Gopalakrishnan has resigned as chairperson of a film institute in Kerala named after Dalit President K.R. Narayanan following a row over caste discrimination alleged by staff and students. Adoor met chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is the president of the governing council of K.R. Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts, Kottayam, on Monday and submitted his resignation letter, the filmmaker told a media conference in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. He urged the government to launch a police investigation into the allegations raised by the students and staff to bring out the truth on who were behind the controversy and said he “didn’t want to be chairperson of an institute that is on the path of destruction”. Institute director Shankar Mohan, who was accused of discriminating against staff on the basis of their caste and sabotaging caste-based reservation in the admission process, resigned on January 21. Adoor accused the students and staff of being misguided by a set of vested interests led by a watchman who was removed after being accused of selling liquor to hostilities. He reiterated his earlier allegation that the sweepers were “trained” how to speak

After Nidhi Razdan, NDTV Chief Technology & Product officer Kawaljit Singh Bedi quits channel

Agency News: New Delhi members — with Mahendra having contested the Assembly elections from neighbouring Karakat in 1985 — and close to defence minister Rajnath Singh.“The maid and the cook have been detained for questioning. We are going through CCTV footage from the area,” the Nawada station house officer, inspector Avinash Kumar, told. He said nothing valuable seemed to have been taken, making robbery an unlikely motive. Officers said both bodies showed multiple stab wounds and slashes.

The string of resignations in NDTV continues and the latest to come is that of Kawaljit Singh Bedi, the channel’s Chief Technology and Product Officer. He was associated with the channel for over two decades and announced his decision to quit through his Twitter handle on Wednesday. Singh wrote, “You and I have memories. Longer than the road that stretches out ahead. 23 years and some change. Time to say goodbye. Thank you @ndtv.” On Tuesday (Jan 31), Nidhi Razdan announced her decision of resigning veteran Uma Bharti has sought to link rise in cases of crime against women in her party-ruled Madhya Pradesh to consumption of alcohol and pushed for converting liquor outlets which are being operated in violation of rules into cow shelters. Ending her four-day-long stay at a temple in Bhopal on Tuesday, Bharti announced the launch of “Madhushala Me Gaushala” (cow shelters in place of liquor outlets) programme in support of her demand for a “controlled” liquor policy in the state. On Saturday afternoon, the former Madhya from her post of executive editor at NDTV. In less than a week’s time this is the third resignation tendered in the channel that was recently acquired by the Adani Group. Prior to Singh, Nidhi Razdan had quit NDTV.

Pradesh chief minister reached a temple located near a liquor shop in Ayodhya Nagar trisection of the state capital and announced she will stay there till January 31, awaiting announcement of a new liquor policy by the government. She ended her four-day-long stay at the temple on Tuesday as the state government has delayed its liquor policy announcement.

Crime filed against 239 ministers in the country, rape, murder, kidnapping cases against 164 ministers: ADR report 23 percent of ministers are graduate, 23 percent post graduate, 15 percent 12 pass

Agency News: New Delhi

ADR analyzes criminal history, property and educational details of ministers of 28 states and 2 Union Territories today. Information regarding which is as follows. Details of a total of 558 ministers have been analyzed by ADR. Crimes have been registered against 239 ministers out of them. 164 of them have serious offences, such as murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, misdemeanor offences. If we talk about Gujarat, 94 percent of the ministers are millionaires. The average wealth of ministers with criminal history is found to be Rs 21.21 crore in the report. Balwantsinh Rajput of Gujarat owns assets worth 372 crores, making him the 5th richest minister in the country. country Only 9 percent of women ministers are in the country. West Bengal has the highest number of women ministers with 8. While Goa, Delhi, Maharashtra,

Agency News: New Delhi

An air hostess has claimed that she was sexually assaulted by a man, who claimed to be a former pilot at her flat

Airhostess alleges sexual assault; suspect absconding Dense fog in North India: 10 trains running late due to low visibility

Agency News: New Delhi

As many as 10 passenger trains are running late in the northern region due to low visibility, informed Railway officials on Wednesday. According to railway officials, AzamgarhDelhi Kaifiyat Express, MGR Chennai Central- New Delhi Grand Trunk Express, BhusavalHazrat Nizamuddin Gondwana Express, and Visakhapatnam -New Delhi Andhra Pradesh Express are running late by 1:00 hours. Barauni- NewDelhi Clone Special, Madhupur-Anand Vihar Terminal Baba Baidyanath Dham

Deoghar Humsafar Express and MGR Chennai Central- New Delhi Tamil Nadu Express are running late by 1:30 hours.

Kamakhya-Delhi Brahmaputra Mail, Howrah-New Delhi Poorva Express and DurgHazrat Nizamuddin Humsafar Express are running late by 1:15 hours, 1:15 hours and 2:00 hours respectively.

Thief Breaks Into Goa Court’s Evidence Room, Runs Away With Cash: Cops

Agency News: Panaji

A thief broke into the evidence room of the district and sessions court building in Goa’s capital Panaji and fled with cash seized as part of proof in various cases, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on the intervening night of Tuesday-Wednesday in the court located in a Portuguese-era building where a guard was on duty on the front side, an official said. The thief entered the premises by breaking a window on the building’s rear side, the police official said.

Superintendent of Police (North) Nidhin Valsan told reporters here the intruder targeted an almirah used to store evidence including cash, gold and other documents. The thief ran away with cash, while leaving behind scrapped currency notes, the official said, without specifying the stolen amount. “It is possible someone who knew the court procedures and the building from inside was involved in the crime,” he said adding the accused was seen in the CCTV footage of the area. The police are hopeful of making a breakthrough in this case soon, he said. Asked whether the thief wanted to take away evidence pertaining to any particular case, Valsan said the police and court officials are currently analysing the documents.

Sikkim, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Himachal Pradesh do not have a single woman minister. 23 percent of ministers in the country are graduates. 23 percent are post graduates. 15 percent ministers are 12th pass and 9 percent are 10th pass.

UP Teacher Strangled To Death On Camera During Online Class: Police

Agency News: Gonda

A 32-year-old teacher was strangled by two men at his house in this district while he was giving online video lessons, police said on Wednesday. The mobile phone using which the teacher, Krishna Kumar Yadav, was giving online classes continued to record the video that was later retrieved by police to identify the assailants. Mr Yadav, a native of Ambedkarnagar district, was living in rented accommodation in Forbesganj locality in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda, police said. Additional Superintendent of Police Shivraj on Wednesday said Mr Yadav was strangled on Saturday evening while he was alone in his room and giving an online tuition class. “We have arrested both the attackers,” the Additional SP said. Police said one of the accused said he was in a relationship with the teacher’s sister and was angry at being rebuked by Krishna Yadav over the issue.

Fake documents used to obtain building’s conveyance deed; case against office bearers

Agency News: Thane

The Thane sessions court has rejected the pre-arrest bail application of the office-bearers of Jagmata housing society in Kolbad in a case of filing forged documents to obtain the building’s conveyance deed. As per the complaint filed by the landowner, they had allegedly submitted a ‘fake’ building permit, occupancy certificate, completion certificate, certificate of three architects, its map, title certificate and false residential address of the owner to the Deputy Registrar, Sub-Registrar and the Revenue departments of the Thane Municipal Corporation. The land owner Achita Ramesh Madhvi has registered case against Pragya Malbari, Narendra Tidke, Jitendra Kabadi, Suvrit Bedekar, Madhukar Saindane, Jay Singh and Girish Shukla at Rabodi police station alleging that the Jagmata Society conveyance deed was obtained by submitting fake documents in the district deputy registrar’s office.

One dead as fire engulfs garment units in Dharavi

Agency News: Mumbai

A woman has succumbed to the injuries she received in a fire that broke out at Ashok mills compound located in the Dharavi slum colony in Mumbai on Wednesday, BMC confirmed.

At least four to five garment units located in Ashok Mill compound were affected by the blaze which erupted at around noon, an official said. It is a Level 1 fire and as per the updates available so far. As per Mumbai Fire Brigade, Level I fires are treated as minor emergency calls. Five fire engines, three jumbo tankers, and two fire bikes rushed to the spot to douse the flames. It is a Level 1 fire and as per the updates available so far, a woman was injured, he said.

Visa delay forces Usman Khawaja to miss his flight to India

Agency News : Sydney

Australia opener Usman

Khawaja was forced to miss his flight to India on Wednesday due to a visa delay. The Australia squad left for the high-profile four-Test series against India without Khawaja, who is now expected to depart on Thursday. ”Me waiting for my Indian Visa like... #stranded #dontleaveme #standard #anytimenow,” wrote Khawaja while posting a meme on social media. The Pakistan-born batter has played 56 Tests, 40 ODIs and nine T20s for Australia. The 36-year-old also featured in the IPL back in 2016. He was named

Australia’s Test Player of the Year on Monday, an award named after the legendary Shane Warne. Australia will have a four-day training camp in the outskirts of Bengaluru before moving to Nagpur for the first Test