The CBI has booked retired deputy manager Gokulnath Shetty, the most accused within the Rs 13,000-crore Punjab commercial bank fraud allegedly perpetrated by Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi, during a fresh case of receiving a bribe of Rs 1.08 crore from Rishika Financials that arranged bank guarantees for Gitanjali Gems, officials said. It is alleged that the owner of Rishika Financials, Debajyoti Dutta, was within the business of arranging quotes of Letters of Undertaking (LoUs) from foreign funding banks, they said on Monday. The officials said that after getting confirmation from Dutta, Shetty wont to issue LoUs using the international…
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday filed a blotter during a Delhi court against former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain during a concealment case associated with the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat took cognisance of the offences under section 3 (money laundering) read with section 70 (offences by companies) punishable under section 4 of the Prevention of cash Laundering Act, 2002, against Hussain and co-accused Amit Gupta. The ED was probing the allegation that Hussain and his linked persons laundered about Rs 1.10 crore funds by using purported shell or dummy companies to fuel…
A Hindu woman who was pursuing her law from Mahatma Gandhi Law college was brutally stabbed to death by her Muslim boyfriend Syed Mustafa and his brother on Saturday night at Rein Bazar neighbourhood of Hyderabad. She was an active volunteer for People’s for animal society where she met Syed Mustafa, who was also a volunteer of the society. Syed promised to marry her earlier but later denied to get into matrimony. The incident came to light when the city police found the woman’s body near a hotel in Rein Bazar. The woman was a daughter of one Raj Kumar,…
MS Dhoni celebrated his 200th Indian Premier League match. Though Chennai Super Kings lost to Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets in a must-win game in Abu Dhabi on Monday night. Man of the Match Jos Buttler was all smiles after Dhoni gifted the England wicketkeeper-batsman his No. 7 Chennai Super Kings shirt. Buttler may have won a slew of cash awards for his effort but nothing could have been better than Dhoni’s jersey. Buttler was happy to have scripted the win against CSK. On a ‘stoppy’ wicket, RR were 28 for three in the fifth over but Buttler, coming in…
An earthquake that prompted the waves to rise over 2 feet in Alaska gives out a tsunami warning The earthquake with 7.5 magnitude was centered near Sand Point, a city of about 900 people off the Alaska Peninsula where wave levels late Monday topped 2 feet (0.61 meters), according to the National Tsunami Warning Center. The warning was downgraded to an advisory just over two hours after the quake hit. “It was a pretty good shaker here,” said David Adams, co-manager of Marine View Bed and Breakfast in Sand Point. “You could see the water kind of shaking and shimmering…
https://twitter.com/Savage_shree/status/1316949135430455296?s=20 Turkish broadcasters are reportedly ‘Islamizing’ Hindi TV serials by barring depiction of Hindu symbols on these shows. In an attempt to bring these shows into conformity of Islam, the Turkish broadcasters are now blurring the images of non-Islamic symbols that are often depicted on these TV shows on the pretext of violating principles of Islam. Reportedly, various Hindi shows are being dubbed into Turkish language and have been running successfully for the past few years. However, the Turkish broadcasters, who seems to have no understanding of Indian ethos, cultural values, are now trying to Islamize these Hindi TV shows…
Two days after a teacher was beheaded by an Islamist amidst chants of ‘Allahu Akbar’ in Paris, the France Government has decided to come down heavily on suspected Islamic extremists in the country. In a massive crackdown, France is now preparing to expel 231 radicalized foreign nationals, Reuters quoted a police union source as informing on Sunday. It is being reported that more than 850 illegal immigrants are registered to the File of Alerts for the Prevention of Terrorist Attacks (FSPRT). Out of 231 fundamentalists in the FSPRT who will be deported, 180 people are currently in prison and 51…
The Calcutta High Court division bench on Monday ordered that all Durga Puja pandals in the West Bengal will be declared as ‘no entry zones’ and no visitor will be allowed to enter any puja pandals. The orders from justices Sanjib Banerjee and Arijit Banerjee came three days before the state’s biggest annual festival, a five-day-celebration, is to formally start. October 22 is the day of Mahashasthi when the puja starts and October 26, the day of Bijoya Dashami and immersion procession, is the formal concluding day. Following this order, only a limited number of organisers would be allowed to…
The second ceasefire between Azerbaijan and Armenia collapsed within hours after coming into effect on Sunday with Pakistan and Turkey’s meddling in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Over 700 Armenians and an unknown number of Azerbaijani people have been killed since September 27 when the worst fight in decades broke out between the Christian-dominated Armenia and the Shia Muslim-dominated Azerbaijan. The Russia-brokered ceasefire has failed twice in the last three weeks. Sources told IANS that the truce is unable to sustain because of the support extended to Azerbaijan’s despotic ruler Ilham Aliyev by Turkey and Pakistan. Amid the disintegration of…
https://twitter.com/drsfaizanahmad/status/1317809946214289409?s=20 Recently, a doctor on duty took the twitter on storm as he danced away to glory in his PPE kit to Hrithik Roshan’s song. Hrithik Roshan reacts to Assam doctor dancing to Ghungroo in viral video. Hrithik Roshan recently retweeted the video of the doctor dancing to Ghungroo while wearing a PPE kit in Assam and wrote a heartfelt note. We recently came across a video of a doctor in Assam dancing to Hrithik Roshan’s famous song Ghungroo while wearing a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kit in order to cheer his patients. The video has now grabbed the attention…