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Rahul Gandhi sentenced to 2 years imprisonment in ‘Modi surname’ defamation case, gets bail

Agency News: Surat

A Surat court on Thursday held Congress MP Rahul Gandhi guilty in a 2019 defamation case and sentenced him to two years imprisonment. The court approved Gandhi’s bail on a surety of Rs 15,000 and stayed the sentence for 30 days to allow him to appeal.

The case filed by former Gujarat minister and BJP MLA from Surat West Purnesh Modi pertains to the alleged remarks Gandhi made on April 13, 2019, at a Lok Sabha election rally in Karnataka’s Kolar where he said, “Why all the thieves have Modi in their names whether be it Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi, and Narendra Modi?”

The order was pronounced by Chief Judicial Magistrate H H Verma. Gandhi was present inside the courtroom on Thursday after-

BJP appointed 4 new state unit presidents in Delhi, Bihar, Rajasthan and Odisha

Agency News: New Delhi

CJI Chandrachud inaugurates yoga, recreation hall for SC registry officials

Mouni Roy unleashed her fierce diva avatar in the noodle-strap bodycon dress, having a risque, plunging neckline.

Rupee jumps 27 paise to 82.32 against US dollar

Agency News: New Delhi noon along with several national and state Congress leaders. The Surat police had increased security arrangements in the court campus to prevent untoward incidents.

The rupee jumped 27 paise to 82.32 against the US dollar in early trade on Thursday amid a weak American currency and inflow of foreign funds in the domestic equity market. Traders said declining crude oil prices also supported the Indian rupee. At the interbank foreign exchange, the domestic unit opened stronger at 82.38 against the dollar, climbed as high as 82.26 and hit the lowest level of 82.41. Later, the Indian currency was trading at 82.32.

“We are not satisfied with the verdict passed by the court as some of our arguments were not taken into consideration. The issues we raised were, there is no community by the

India records 1,300 new Covid cases, highest in 140 days

Agency News: New Delhi

India on Thursday recorded a single-day rise of 1,300 new Covid cases, the highest in 140 days, while the active cases have increased to 7,605, news agency PTI reported quoting Health ministry data. The total tally of Covid-19 cases has now reached to 4.46 crore.

The death toll inched to 5,30,816 with three deaths, one each being reported by Karnataka, Gujarat and Maharashtra, the health ministry data revealed. The daily positivity rate is recorded as 1.46% while the weekly positivity was pegged at 1.08%. The number recoveries has surged to 4,41,60,997 with the national recovery rate standing at 98.79%. A total 92.06 crore tests for detection of Covid has been conducted so far with 89,078 tests name of Modi and even the complainant is not a Modi as his earlier surname was Bhootwala and later changed to Modi. We will take up our issues to higher courts in coming days,” defence lawyer Kirit Panwala said. Prosecution lawyer Ketan Reshamwala and MLA Purnesh Modi said they were “satisfied with the court order”.

Bhupesh Baghel announces unemployment allowance for educated youth being conducted in the last 24 hours.

Prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting on Covid-19 and influenza to review the country’s response and preparedness to deal with a rising number of cases of influenza and a slight increase in the number of Covid-19 cases. He stressed on the need to follow Covid-appropriate behavior and maintain respiratory hygiene. He also emphasized the need for lab surveillance, genome testing, and testing of all Severe Acute Respiratory Illness.

Agency News: Raipur

Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has announced an unemployment allowance at the rate of Rs. 2500 per month to educated unemployed people of the state. In this regard, an order has been issued by the Skill Development Department, Technical Education Department and Employment Department approving the scheme. Director of Employment and Training, Chhattisgarh, Raipur said that according to the criteria and conditions set for unemployment allowance, the applicant must be a native of Chhattisgarh to get an unemployment allowance. However, Unemployed educated individuals must be between the ages of 18 and 35. He must have a minimum of a Higher Secondary qualification from a recognized board. He must be registered in the District Employment and SelfEmployment Guidance Center.

As the Bharatiya Janata Party moves to further strengthen its organisational machinery with an eye on the upcoming state and national elections, it appointed four new state presidents on Thursday, including Lok Sabha MP C P Joshi in Rajasthan and OBC leader and MLC Samrat Choudhary in Bihar. Choudhary thanked PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J P Nadda for giving him the organizational responsibility as the state president in a twitter video. BJP president J P Nadda also appointed Manmohan Samal, a former state minister, as the head of the party’s Odisha unit, while Delhi working president Virendra Sachdeva was elevated as its chief. Choudhary (54), whose standing within the BJP has steadily risen after joining the party in 2018, is the leader of the party in the Bihar legislative council and comes from the politically important Kushwaha community. He replaces Lok Sabha MP Sanjay Jaiswal at the helm of the Bihar BJP. Joshi (47) will replace Satish Poonia, an MLA from Jaipur’s Amber constituency, and the appointment comes close on the heels of veteran Rajasthan BJP leader Gulab Chand Kataria being eased out of active politics following his appointment as Assam governor.

Amritpal stayed in Kurukshetra for 4 days, Punjab STF arrested 3; including a woman

Agency News: Chandigarh

Khalistan supporter and 11 associates of fugitive Amritpal Singh were presented in the court of Baba Bakala on Thursday afternoon amid tight security. The court has sent all the 11 accused to judicial custody. In a case related to Amritpal Singh, Amritsar’s Baba Bakala Court has sent 11 accused on judicial remand for 14 days.The police had arrested 11 associates of Amritpal Singh on the charges of keeping and handling illegal weapons. The arrested associates of Amritpal include Harminder Singh, Gurveer

Singh, Ajaypal Singh, Baljinder Singh, Amandeep Singh, Swarit Gurlal Singh, Gurpreet Singh, resident of Sangrur, Bhupinder Singh, Sukhmanpreet Singh and Harpreet Singh (driver), resident of Shaheed Udham Singh Nagar, Amritsar. . Continuous action is going on against Amritpal, the chief of Waris Punjab De and proKhalistan. The Punjab Police is continuously raiding to catch the fugitive Amritpal and at the same time taking his associates into custody. Amritpal’s companions were taken on remand, today on Thursday they were presented in the court once again.

Woman Dies After Being Administered Wrong Injections: UP Police

Agency News: Etah

A 32-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Patti village died allegedly after being given the wrong injections by a quack, police said on Thursday.“One Sangita was admitted to Suraj Clinic which is owned by one Dr Suraj when she complained of stomach ache Wednesday evening. She was administered several injections by Dr Suraj and died an hour later at the clinic,” Jaithara Police Station SHO Ramendra Shukla said.The

CMO Umesh Kumar Tripathi said that a probe had also been launched by the health department in the incident doctor had already decamped before the police reached the hospital.“We have lodged a case regarding the incident and started an investigation,” said the SHO.

Agency News: New Delhi

Chief Justice DY Chandrachud on Thursday inaugurated the newly created ‘Yoga and Recreation Hall’ for Supreme Court registry officials in the additional building complex of the apex court. CJI Chandrachud, who inaugurated the hall by cutting a ribbon, also played a game of carrom with Justice Ajay Rastogi and PS Narasimha and others judges. Justice Rastogi even played table tennis. In its circular, the apex court said ‘Yoga and Recreation Hall’ has been opened for the officers/officials of the registry on the fourth floor in the lobby between A and B blocks, additional building complex and will be open for use on all working days of the registry. It said from Monday to Saturday, the hall will be opened for three sessions with the first from 7.45 am to 8.45 am and the second from 8.45 am to 9.45 am. The third session will commence from Monday to Friday between 5.15 pm and 6.15 pm and on Saturday it will be held from 1.15 pm to 2.15 pm. “A register will be maintained at the ‘Yoga and Recreation Hall’ and all users are required to enter the details in it with signature.

Theft of Rs 72 lakh from home of Sonu Nigam’s father, driver booked

Agency News: Mumbai

A former driver of singer Sonu Nigam‘s 76-year-old father has been booked for allegedly stealing Rs 72 lakh from the senior citizen’s home in Mumbai, an official said on Wednesday. The singer’s father Agamkumar Nigam lives at Windsor Grand building in Oshiwara, Andheri west, and the alleged theft took place between March 19 and March 20, he said. Sonu’s younger sister Nikita approached the Oshiwara police station in the early hours of Wednesday with a complaint about the alleged theft, he said. As per the complaint, Agamkumar had a driver named Rehan for nearly 8 months but removed him recently as his performance was not satisfactory, the official said.

On Sunday afternoon, Agamkumar visited Nikita’s home in the Versova area for lunch and returned after some time. In the evening, he called his daughter to inform her that Rs 40 lakh was missing from a digital locker kept in a wooden cupboard, the official said citing the complaint.

19.50 lakh fraud in the name of marriage with a girl from Tamil Nadu

Agency News: Coimbatore

Cases of cheating on the pretext of marriage on matrimonial websites have increased. A 23-year-old girl from Singanallur, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, also lost Rs 19.50 lakh to find idols on a similar website. The girl works as a relationship manager in a private bank there. According to the complaint lodged with the police, the girl met a young man on a matrimonial website last year. Who identified himself as Dr. Gave himself as Zafar Ibrahim and said to be living in America.

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He expressed his desire to marry her. After that both took each other’s phone number and started talking. After some time he told her that he was coming to India On November 23 last year, the man called him and said that he had reached the Delhi airport and customs officials had seized $6.80 lakh from him. He asked the girl to send Rs 19.50 lakh to pay taxes and book a flight ticket to reach Coimbatore,’ said a police officer. After transferring the money, the man switched off his phone. When the girl repeatedly tried to contact him, he kept getting switched off.

Xi Jinping’s Visit to Moscow Will Not Impact Russia-India Ties: Russian Envoy

Agency News: New Delhi

Russia’s Ambassador here Denis Alipov on Thursday dismissed as “wishful thinking” the analysis by experts that the relationship between Moscow and Beijing would “harm” the ties with India.Alipov was responding to the analysis in a section of the media on the outcome of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia.“Profusion of analysis these days of the outcomes of Xi Jinping’s Russia visit. The impression as though various reputable Indian experts almost dream of Russia-China ties harming Russia-India strategic alignment. A wishful thinking case in point!”

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How an Odia queen became medieval Sri Lanka’s greatest politician

Near the ruins of the royal palace at Polonnaruwa—Sri Lanka’s most important medieval city—is a rather unassuming open-aired hall. On one of its stone slabs is an inscription of a queen called SundaraMahadevi, or Sundari, from the distant land of Kalinga (present-day Odisha). Her unassuming stone inscription reveals a wild history of dynastic intermarriage and international political wrangles, behind which loomed the growing power of Sri Lanka’s Buddhist Sangha. To understand how an Odia queen ended up in Lanka in the first place, we need to note that such exchanges are not exactly surprising.

As seen in an earlier edition of Thinking Medieval, the island was deeply integrated into South Asian movements of goods, people, ideas, and capital. One of the most visible aspects of this was the sheer degree of intermarriage between the island and mainland dynasties.

Amruta Fadnavis Bribe FIR: Police Collect Aniksha Jaisinghani’s Voice and Handwriting Samples

Mumbai police have collected the handwriting and voice samples of Aniksha Jaisinghani

Agency News: Mumbai

Maharashtra: Rains expected in four districts of Marathwada on two days

Agency News: Mumbai

2 Children Among 3 Dead As

Visakhapatnam Apartment Collapses

Agency News: Visakhapatnam

Up to the 7th century CE, notes historian Thomas Trautmann in Consanguineous Marriage in Pali Literature (1973, cited in Gornall 2020, page 20), Sri Lankan royalty married almost exclusively among themselves. The island’s governors, generals, and officials all came from within the same family tree (or family bush). But as exchanges with the mainland grew in the 8th and 9th centuries, political and matrimonial alliances were made with dynasties from South India, especially the Pallavas of Kanchipuram. In the 11th century, the Cholas emerged as an existential threat to Lankan sovereignty, extinguishing the island’s line of kings at Anuradhapura. Lanka’s political structure shattered, and new chiefs rose to take control of its different regions. It is in this context that queens from Odisha begin to rise to prominence, appearing in monastic chronicles such as the Culavamsa as well as in the inscriptional record.

Mumbai police have collected the handwriting and voice samples of Aniksha Jaisinghani, who is accused of trying to blackmail and bribe Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s wife Amruta, for forensic analysis, an official said on Thursday. Aniksha, daughter of suspected bookie Anil Jaisinghani, was arrested on March 16 for allegedly attempting to offer Rs 1 crore to Amruta for intervening in a criminal case and also threatening her. Anil Jaisinghani, also an accused in the case, was arrested on March 20 from Gujarat. According to the official,

Aniksha had shot a video of a bag being filled with currency notes worth Rs 1 crore and sent the clip to Amruta from another mobile number after the complainant blocked her number. As the video also had the voice of Aniksha, officials from the Malabar Hill police station, where the case was registered on Amruta’s complaint, collected her voice samples for forensic analysis, the official said. Police have also examined voice chats and other related data in Aniksha’s iPhone, he said. The total data is more than 100 GB, the official said. Aniksha had allegedly given an envelope with some notes written in a code language to the complainant. This prompted the police to collect her handwriting samples.

Four districts of Marathwada in central Maharashtra are likely to receive light to moderate spells of rains accompanied by lightening in the next two days, officials said on Thursday. Unseasonal showers had lashed all the eight districts of the region last week, leading to the death of five persons in different incidents and causing widespread damage to crops spread across nearly one lakh hectares. Lightening, gusty winds reaching 30 to 40 km per hour and light to medium rain spells are expected on Friday and Saturday in the districts of Osmanabad, Parbhani, Latur and Nanded, said the officials of the Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Agriculture University’s meteorological department.

Daman hotel manager dies of hart attack while talking on moped, captured on CCTV

Two children and an adult were crushed to death when a three-storey residential building collapsed in the small hours of Thursday in Visakhapatnam, a police official said. At the time of the collapse, eight tenants from three families living on three floors were present in the building. Two of them were children, and both died. “Suddenly at 1.30 in the morning, the whole structure collapsed,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Sumit Sunil Garud said, sharing the preliminary information said. “Police and fire services responded immediately and with quick action we could rescue five of them.” Had the police and fire services not attended to the emergency immediately, Garud said, more occupants of the building would have died. The IPS officer, who spent two hours at the accident site, oversaw the rescue of a woman. Five rescued tenants are undergoing treatment in hospital. Meanwhile, police booked a case under Section 174 of CrPC and are in the process of taking an expert opinion to ascertain the cause of the old building’s collapse. According to Mr Garud, another building is also being constructed beside the collapsed one.

China’s special police glasses will identify criminals on sight

Agency News: Beijing

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Kerala CM Reacts to Bishop’s ‘Pro BJP’ Message, Says Communal Agenda Won’t Work in State NIA detains Gwalior man in connection with Gazwa-e-Hind case, releases him hours later

Agency News: Gwalior

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches on Thursday in Bahodapur police station area of Gwalior in its ongoing probe in the Gazwa-e-Hind case that is linked to the radicalisation of impressionable youth over various social media platforms for allegedly carrying out violent terrorist acts. During the raid, one person was detained by the central agency and later released after hours of interrogation. Simultaneously, NIA also conducted raids at six locations each in Maharashtra and Gujarat. The places searched included the residential premises and hideouts of the suspects involved in the anti-national activities and radicalization of impressionable youth through social media. The NIA initially registered the Gazwa-e-Hind case on July 22 last year at Phulwarisharif Police Station in Bihar. In the Phulwarisharif investigations, the NIA said, it is revealed that accused Margub Ahmad Danish, a self-radicalized man, was in contact with a number of foreign entities on the WhatsApp group “Ghazwa-e-Hind” created by him. “In this group, terrorist acts and activities in Kashmir were being glorified with the view to radicalise impressionable youth. He had also created another WhatsApp group in the name of Ghazwa-e-Hind BD and was propagating conquest of India through violence,” the NIA had said earlier.

Sanjay Raut removed as Shiv Sena’s parliamentary leader after Shinde appoints Gajanan Kirtikar

Agency News: Mumbai

Uddhav Thackeray has suffered yet another setback as his close aide and MP, Sanjay Raut, was ousted as the parliamentary leader of the party, after the loss of the Bow and Arrow symbol and party name.

Gajanand Kirtikar, who aligned with Eknath Shinde’s faction of the Shiv Sena in November last year, has been appointed as the new parliamentary leader in place of Raut.Kirtikar, taking to Twitter after his appointment, thanked CM Shinde and his party colleagues.“By appointing me as the leader of the Shiv Sena parliamentary party, Chief Minister @mieknathshinde has shown confidence in me. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to him as well as to all the

Shiv Sena colleagues in parliament who have supported me,” Kirtikar said.In February, the Election Commission of India (ECI) granted the official symbol Bow and Arrow and the name of Shiv Sena to the faction led by Eknath Shinde.

A feud had erupted between the factions of Thackeray and Shinde over the claim to the party name and election symbol. Shinde, who is now the Chief Minister, had rebelled against Thackeray but had not disassociated himself or his associates from the party, instead forming an alliance with the BJP.

In Massive Data Breach, Details

Of 16.8 Crore Citizens Leaked, 7 Arrested

Agency News: Hyderabad

A massive data breach that has implications for national security was unearthed by Cyberabad Police here, who arrested seven people of a gang allegedly involved in the theft and sale of sensitive data of the government and important organisations, including details of defence personnel as well as the personal and confidential data of about 16.8 crore citizens. The accused persons were found selling more than 140 different categories of information, which include sensitive information such as details

Agency News: Trivandrum

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday reacted to a statement by an Arch Bishop of the Roman Catholic church in Thalassery, Mar Joseph Pamplani which led to a political showdown in the state. The Archbishop had said, “The believers of the church will help the BJP to elect its first MP from the state if the union government raises the price of natural rubber to ₹300 per kg.” Vijayan responded and asserted that the BJP’s polarisation agenda won’t work in the southern state, which has always opposed communalism tooth and nail.

Apparently referring to Thalassery

Archbishop Mar Joseph Pamplany, who made a statement recently that his community could help the BJP if that party addressed the concerns of farmers, Vijayan said such “opportunists” do not represent the people of Kerala. “Just because some opportunists say some things, Sangh Parivar and their leaders shouldn’t think that this is the general sentiment of Kerala,” CM Vijayan said. “BJP has played all sorts of games since its Jan Sangh period to win a seat in the Assembly. Finally, they got one in 2016. We all know now how they got it. Congress lost all its votes in that particular constituency and helped BJP defeat the Left candidate,” CM Vijayan said. In addition, the CM said his party publicly announced that BJP’s account in the state would be closed during the 2021 election. “There will be some people who will fall for such tactics. Such people do not represent the common sentiments of the state. The common sentiment of Kerala is that secularism must be protected,” Vijayan further said.

Uttarakhand: Upcoming ‘Chardham Yatra’ preparations in full-swing for devotees

Agency News: Kedarnath

In view of the upcoming Chardham Yatra, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on March 22 gave instructions to the concerned authorities to ensure necessary arrangements in time. Dhami said that more devotees will come to the state than this year, with this view it is necessary to make arrangements in advance. The Chief Minister asked tourism department officials and police to organize a meeting with the district magistrates associated with the Chardham Yatra to finalize the necessary preparations. He instructed officials that the travel arrangements should be completed by April 15. Along with the improvement of the roads of the Yatra route, the Chief Minister also gave instructions to work with an effective action plan on the arrangements

Agency News: Valsad

For the past few years, the number of deaths due to heart attack is increasing day by day across the country including Gujarat. The problem of heart attack was earlier seen in the elderly, but since some time young people in India are also suffering from it. For the last many years, there are many incidents of sudden heart attack and death on the spot. The news of heart attack comes to the fore more than dancing. Then today another incident has happened in Sangh Pradesh Daman. A hotel manager died of a sudden heart attack while sitting on a moped parked in the hotel compound. The entire incident has been captured on CCTV. The sudden death of the owner of a prestigious hotel in Devka due to a sudden heart attack caused a deep mourning in the whole diocese and the family. The entire incident of sudden death of the hotel owner was also recorded in the CCTV camera installed in the hotel.

Uttarakhand: Opposition slams BJP govt over proposal to hike electricity, water rates

Agency News: Dehradun

Opposition parties in Uttarakhand criticised the BJP-led state government on Thursday over the proposed hike in electricity and water rates and reduction in liquor prices.Taking a jibe at the Pushkar Singh Dhami government, Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) president Karan Mahara said during the tenure of the Bharatiya

Janata Party government in the state, the liquor is getting cheaper but electricity and water are getting costlier. ”The government is giving hundreds of crores of rupees to private companies producing gas-based power in our state without generating a single unit of electricity. It is also roasting electricity and increasing its prices for the third time within a year, burdening the consumers,” he said.

Telangana paper leak: SIT summons Cong chief Revanth Reddy in TSPSC case

Agency News: Hyderabad

Different techniques are used all over the world to catch criminals. A special technology has been developed in China to catch criminals. Chinese police have been given special glasses that will make it easier to catch criminals. These glasses are linked to a central database, where records of all criminals are kept. Whenever a policeman wearing glasses sees a suspect, all his personal information such as name, caste, religion, address, criminal record, etc. is captured on the glasses. When a criminal comes in front of these glasses, it scans it and immediately activates the alarm mode and the message reaches all the centers. As soon as the message is received, officials and special teams reach the spot. Thousands of criminals have been arrested so far with the help of these glasses. A video has been shared on Twitter and now it is going viral. It can be seen in this video that the complete information of the person who comes in front of the police is visible on the screen of the glasses. A small camera is attached to the right side of these glasses. The photo of the person coming in front of the camera is captured and sent to the database and the complete information is immediately available to the policeman. Based on which police action is taken. It gives such a clear image that it becomes impossible to survive even in a crowd. A single pair of glasses costs around Rs 56,000. The glasses can recognize one of the 10,000 samples preloaded on the server in just 100 milliseconds.

4-day-old baby crushed to death after policeman steps on him during raid in Giridih

Agency News: Ranchi of defence personnel and the mobile numbers of citizens and NEET students, among others, Cyberabad Police Commissioner M Stephen Raveendra told reporters here on Thursday. Seven data brokers were arrested from Delhi, police said adding that the accused had been operating through three companies in Noida and other places. So far it has been found that the accused sold data to at least 100 fraudsters. Investigations are still on, police said. Sensitive data of defence personnel containing their ranks, email ids, place of posting, etc was found available with the accused. related to the convenience of the passengers. Uttarakhand Tourism Development Council earlier this month said more than 2.50 lakh devotees have registered for Chardham Yatra so far. For Kedarnath Dham, 1.39 lakh registrations have been done. While, for Badrinath Dham,1.14 lakh registrations have been made, the UTDC said. The doors of Kedarnath Dham will open on April 25 and Badrinath Dham on April 27. Meanwhile, the Gangotri Temple Committee on Wednesday announced that the temple doors would open for devotees from Akshaya Tritiya on April 22.

Mamata Banerjee Meets

Odisha Chief Minister

Amid New Front Buzz

Agency News: Kolkata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met with her Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik today, renewing the buzz of the Trinamool chief leading an initiative to forge an alliance of regional parties against the BJP. The meeting assumes significance off the back of Ms Banerjee’s recent interaction with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Kolkata, where they agreed to keep both the Congress and the BJP at an arm’s length. Mamata Banerjee called the meeting a “courtesy call”. Political observers, however, say there is more to it as Odisha will go to polls during the general elections in 2024. Sources add Mamata Banerjee is keen to have Naveen Patnaik on board, in what regional parties are describing as a ‘governance platform’ to shed.

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president and party MP A Revanth Reddy on Thursday appeared before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing into the case of the question paper leak for a recruitment test conducted by the TSPSC, after being summoned to give evidence over his allegations in connection with the case. The Telangana Congress claimed that ahead of Revanth Reddy’s appearance before the SIT, several Congress leaders and cadre had been put under “house arrest” or taken into preventive custody here as well as in some other places in the state.“We witnessed high drama of BRS in front of ED office in Delhi and here @TelanganaCMO tries to suppress the protests of opposition. The arrests of our leaders and cadre is highly condemnable in the context that I have been asked to appear today at the SIT office to give evidence on #TSPSC paper leak based on my statements,” Revanth Reddy tweeted.In a notice served recently, the SIT of Hyderabad Police asked the Congress leader to be present at its office on March 23 and produce “documents or other thing/material”.

Vijay Mallya used MP status to open Swiss bank accounts, reveals CBI probe

Agency News: New Delhi

In 2015, a year before Vijay Mallya resigned as a Rajya Sabha member following probes into his firms by different agencies, he used his status as a “member of the Upper House” to open accounts in a Swiss bank. The CBI found this in response to requests by Indian courts sent to Swiss authorities for information on certain bank accounts to which Mallya had transferred loan funds in violation of agreements with IDBI and SBI. The bank Edmond De Rothschild said an account in Mallya’s name was opened with it in November 2015. In Customer Confidential

Data the concerned officer of the bank had also mentioned three other accounts associated with Mallya. According to the charge sheet, the confidential data said: “The form also states the client is not a professional politician or member of any political party. He is a member of the Upper House of Parliament in India.” Regarding another account in the name of Ladywalk Investments, opened in June 2015.

A newborn child was trampled to death in Jharkhand’s Giridih district by a policeman when the police team had gone to a house for a nonbailable warrant issued against the accused, who was the grandfather of the deceased child. Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has directed the police headquarters to probe the matter and initiate action. The dead body has been sent for postmortem. “On basis of the postmortem report, we will take action,” Sanjay Rana, Deputy SP said.State Health miniter Banna Gupta condemned the incident and said, “Such kinds of incidents will be criticized & strict action will be taken. This country runs according to the Constitution thus action will be taken against the police officials as well.”The incident took place in Kosogondodighi village of the district. According to sources, a team led by Sangam Pathak, in-charge of Deori police station, reached the house of one Bhushan Pandey to arrest him in the wee hours. When the family members did not open the door, the team forcibly entered inside and a policeman climbed on the bed where the infant was sleeping and allegedly crushed him to death.

Sukesh Chandrashekhar brought to Delhi Court in ₹200 crore money laundering case

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Chandrasekhar is the prime accused in the ₹200 crore money laundering case being investigated by the ED

Agency News: New Delhi

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Chandrashekhar was brought to Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Thursday for the hearing in a ₹200 crore money laundering case against him. Chandrasekhar is the prime accused in the ₹200 crore money laundering case being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). He is also accused in several other cases being investigated by ED, Delhi Police and Economic Offences Wing. Meanwhile, the incarcerated Chandrashekhar told the Director General of Prisons that he wants to contribute ₹5.11 crore “towards the welfare of inmates.” “As a human being who is in the same situation of being away from loved ones and with good intentions, I humbly request you to accept the demand draft of ₹5.11 crore towards the welfare of inmates. “I would be very happy if the contribution is accepted on 25th March, as it’s my birthday, and it would be the best gift for me,” Chandreshar wrote in his letter. He further wrote, “The judiciary is taking many efforts undoubtedly in this regard but helping undertrials families who are extremely below the poverty line is not an initiative that is been looked into.” “Over these years, I’ve seen many families being shattered and even committing suicide as their loved ones are imprisoned for multiple years, hence I just want to take this small initiative and contribute this small bit from my personal earning funds,” the letter added.

‘We Try to Control What is in Our Hands’: Rohit Sharma Opens up on India’s Injury Woes

Agency News : New Delhi

India went down to Australi 2-1 in the three-match ODI series at home following their 21-run loss against the visitors in Chennai on Wednesday.The loss seems like a setback with the ICC World Cup looming large on the horizon, but probably what is even more worrisome is the injury concern to key players. Indian skipper Rohit Sharma addressed the question pertaining to recurring injuries after the team’s loss in Chepauk.“It is a matter of concern if a player is unavailable due to an injury”, Rohit began.“We are missing the players who make the playing XI regularly, but honestly, everyone is trying their best to get everyone on the right path”, the captain asserted.“We have been focusing a lot on the management of the players a lot. Which is why you keep seeing that we need to rest certain players at a certain point in time.” “From our side, we could do our best in terms of handling them, I’m not a specialist to tell you why the recurring injuries are happening. But, of course, the medical team is looking at all of it and making sure that, come to the world cup, our best 15 men units ready,” the 35-year-old asserted.