YES Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) early Sunday morning in connection with a money-laundering probe against him and others. Kapoor’s arrest followed several hours of his questioning at ED’s Ballard Pier office in Mumbai, even as the agency conducted searches at residences of his three daughters in Delhi and Mumbai, an official confirmed. Kapoor’s wife and daughters were also quizzed for hours, they said. News agency PTI reported investigators will produce Kapoor, 62, before a court in Mumbai later on Sunday and seek his custody. According to the officials, Kapoor’s wife Bindu, and his…
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South African ODI team arrived here on Monday for a three-match series against India starting in Dharamsala from March 12. The 16-member side will be flying to the hill city on Monday itself while the Indian squad will reach the venue on Tuesday. The centrally contracted Indian players will undergo a series of medical tests at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru to ascertain fitness as well as to assess workload. The visiting team is accompanied by Cricket South Africa’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr Shuaib Manjra, due to the prevalent novel coronavirus threat. India has recorded 39 cases so far,…
Kerala stared at a fresh public health crisis on Sunday as five people tested positive for Covid-19, taking the national toll of infected people to 39. Three family members who visited virus-ravaged Italy, and two of their relatives had concealed the visit and did not get tested in more than a week since their return, the state health minister said, potentially exposing many more to the virus during the period. A Union health ministry statement confirmed the new infections in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district, adding that the government is keeping a close watch on the situation. The outbreak has killed more…
Five Indian boxers, including the seasoned trio of Vikas Krishan (69kg), Pooja Rani (75kg) and Satish Kumar (+91kg), secured Tokyo Olympic berths on Sunday by advancing to the semi-finals of the Asian Qualifiers with mostly commanding victories. Satish, Rani, Krishan, Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) and Ashish Kumar (75kg) became the first set of Indian boxers to qualify for quadrennial showpiece scheduled in July-August this year. While fourth-seeded Rani notched up a facile 5-0 win over Thailand’s Pornnipa Chutee, Krishan endured a difficult one against third-seeded Japanese Sewonrets Okazawa before also prevailing in a unanimous verdict against the Asian silver-medallist. In the…
India skipper Virat Kohli lauded the Indian women’s team for their efforts in the T20 World Cup in Australia, saying the final defeat at the hands of the hosts will only make them stronger. “Proud of all the efforts put in by the Indian Women”s Cricket Team throughout their #T20WorldCup campaign. I”m confident that you girls will bounce back stronger than ever,” Kohli said in a tweet. India, playing in their first Women”s T20 World Cup final, had no answer to Alyssa Healy (75) and Beth Mooney (78 not out) before folding to 99 all out at the hands of…
The couple — identified as Jahanjeb Sami and his wife Hina Bashir Beig A couple from Kashmir, identified as Jahanjeb Sami and his wife Hina Bashir Beig are accused of links with the ISIS unit from Afghanistan’s Khorasan province. They have been detained by the police from south Delhi, police sources said. According to the police, the couple were planning a suicide attack in Delhi and inciting young Muslim men to conduct terror strikes. The ISIS has a big role in engineering the protests against the contentious citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens. A senior official associated with…
Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor’s daughter Roshni Kapoor was stopped at the Mumbai airport before boarding a flight to London on Sunday. On March 5, YES Bank was put under a moratorium by the RBI, the withdrawals were capped at Rs 50,000 and its board was superseded in a move to arrest its further slide as it desperately looked for investors. Even as the RBI was coming up with a rescue plan, its co-founder, Rana Kapoor, was being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate for alleged money laundering. Earlier on Sunday, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor…
The Delhi government has ordered DTC and cluster buses, metro and hospitals to be disinfected on a regular basis as a precautionary measure to deal with the novel coronavirus, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday. Addressing a press conference, Kejriwal said that three cases of coronavirus have been reported in Delhi so far and one case is still under investigation. The chief minister said that 168 isolation beds have been set up at 25 hospitals for coronavirus patients. He appealed to the people in Delhi that if anybody from their neighbourhood had returned from foreign countries in the past…
World Cup winner and batting great Sunil Gavaskar on Sunday urged the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly to come up with a plan to organise a Women’s Indian Premier League (IPL) in the country from 2021. Sunil Gavaskar said India have already unearthed quite a few precious talents in women’s cricket and having an IPL for women will only benefit the team more and help them win major tournaments in the future. Gavaskar’s comments came after India finished runners-up in Sunday’s Women’s T20 World Cup final. Harmanpreet Kaur’s team was completely outclassed by hosts…
Hosts Australia rode on attacking seventies from openers Alyssa Healy (75) and Beth Mooney (78*) to lift their 2nd successive Women’s T20 World Cup trophy on Sunday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Having posted a daunting 184 for 4 in their 20 overs, Australia restricted opponents India to 99 cantering to an 85-run win for their 5th T20 World Cup title. India’s long wait for an elusive ICC Women’s T20 World Cup title got elongated even further as they lagged behind the hosts in each department of the game. Alyssa Healy makes most of costly drop Australia captain Meg…