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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said that it has carried out a search in connection with a Prevention of Money Laundering case involving Abhay Kant Pathak, a 1987 batch ex-IFS officer of the Odisha cadre.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday scheduled the hearing of the matter arising out of the rebellion by Eknath Shinde and other MLAs against Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray in Maharashtra, on February 14.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday grilled the Centre on how the settlement can be reopened, when Union Carbide has already paid over $ 470 million to the Bhopal gas tragedy victims, and also expressed concern over Rs 50 crore undisbursed funds.

The court stated that as both of them are required respondents in all three pleas, a common memo of parties shall be submitted with each petition.

Similarly, he said further, out of 48,153 applications for loans from the artisans of the state, 29,656 applications were rejected by banks, again a staggering 62 per cent rejection rate.

The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its judgment on a plea which sought free public access to charge sheets filed by the police and investigative agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

The court made its remark after seeing some tweets and allegations made against BharatPe and its staff by Grover. The court was informed that some of those utterances contain language that prevents their repetition in open court.

An ongoing probe in a drug racket case of Delhi's Shaheen Bagh led the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to bust an entire international drug syndicate that had connections with Punjab, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

For the fifth consecutive day, Delhi saw cold wave conditions on Monday morning and a very dense fog with visibility to just 25 metres, hitting road, rail and air traffic movement.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said that under the PM SVANidhi scheme, there is no need to submit any documents as guarantee because under it, the guarantee has been given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Top officials from the Union Home Ministry and members of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) will visit Joshimath town in Uttarakhand on Monday to assess the situation, amid rising concerns of land sinking there.

The appearance of cracks on roads and houses across Joshimath in Uttarakhand is mainly due to the rampant infrastructure development that is happening in a very fragile ecosystem like Himalayas, experts said on Sunday, adding climate change is a force multiplier.

The unruly passenger on a Mumbai-London flight in September 2022 was handed over to the London Metropolitan Police after a restraining device was required in the incident, reports said quoting Air India.

Massive traffic snarls were witnessed in south and central Delhi on Sunday due to a procession related to the 811th 'urs-e-mubarak' of renowned Sufi saint, Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti of Ajmer Sharif.

Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran on Sunday expressed anguish over the incident of a passenger urinating on a female co-passenger onboard an Air India New York-Delhi flight on November 26, 2022, saying that the airline fell short of addressing the situation and should have acted swiftly.

The recent spate of targeted killings by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir continues to pose a major challenge for the security forces to maintain peace and safeguard the lives of common citizens living in the union territory.

In 2021, the girl aged between 16 to 17-year-old had registered an FIR against the son of the victim, Khursheeda, a resident of Subash Mohalla in north Ghonda, for allegedly raping her.

Addressing the valedictory session of the three-day conference of states' chief secretaries on Saturday, Modi emphasised that to build a developed India, the country is focussing on four pillars of infrastructure, investment, innovation and inclusion.

A Delhi man kidnapped a 5-year-old child of his neighbour to "gift" him to his uncle who had lost four sons during their birth, but both have been nabbed from Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh and the child rescued, a police official said on Saturday.

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Saturday declared Dr Asif Maqbool Dar, associated with Hizbul Mujahideen, a terrorist under the UAPA for his involvement in promoting terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir and funding them with the help of money from Saudi Arabia.

The Patiala House court here on Saturday sent Shankar Mishra, who's accused of urinating on an elderly female co-passenger in a drunken state on a New York-New Delhi flight in November last year, to 14-day judicial custody.

In the wake of the urination incident on board an Air India New York-Delhi flight last November, the flag carrier's CEO and Managing Director Campbell Wilson on Saturday said the airline "could have handled these matters better" and that ite is "committed to taking action".

FPIs have turned sustained sellers in the Indian market and sold for 11 consecutive days taking the cumulative selling to Rs 14,300 crore, says V.K. Vijayakumar, the Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services.

Acting on the urination incident onboard an Air India New York-Delhi flight last November, the flag carrier on Saturday issued show cause notices and de-rostered four cabin crew and a pilot pending investigation.

Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on an elderly woman co-passenger onboard an Air India flight from New York to Delhi, will be produced in the Patiala House Court on Saturday afternoon.