Category: NEW DELHI

• NEW DELHI

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has lodged a fresh loan fraud case of Rs 1688 crore against ABG Shipyard owner Rishi Kamlesh Agarwal and others.

The Indian Army is capable, powerful and ready to tackle any adverse situation at the International Borders, said Army chief General Manoj Pande on Thursday.

Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) has written to the Labour authority requesting to take urgent note of the escalating situation and to restrain the Management of Air India from changing the conditions of service of its pilots.

Suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, whose controversial comments during a TV debate triggered protests and violence last year, now has a gun licence, said sources in Delhi Police on Thursday.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said there has to be sanctity of a settlement, when there is so much international trade and commerce while hearing Centre's curative plea seeking an additional Rs 7,844 crore from the successor firms of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC).

Several computer applications and IT services at the Supreme Court were either disrupted or unavailable on Wednesday due to a sudden malfunction of one of the servers at its data centre.

With growth concerns to intensify globally in 2023, India's growth trends may remain resilient given the country's macroeconomic stability and well-controlled inflation, foreign brokerage Credit Suisse said in a report.

The CBI has filed a murder case against the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Amrapali Group, Anil Sharma, and eight others in connection with the killing of Sharad Chandra, then secretary of Balika Vidyapeeth in Lakhisarai, Bihar, who was shot dead at his home on the campus in August 2014.

Slamming Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat over his recent remarks on Muslims, the opposition parties come together on Wednesday, terming the comments as provocative and aimed at inciting violence against Muslims.

Refunds amounting to Rs 2.40 lakh crore have been issued between April 1, 2022 and January 10, 2023, which are 58.74 per cent higher than refunds issued during the corresponding period of last year.

A man and a woman were found dead in a hotel room in Outer North Delhi's Bawana area, an senior police official said on Wednesday.

A trial court in Uttar Pradesh, which is hearing the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, has informed the Supreme Court that it might take five years to complete the trial in normal course. The cases involve Ashish Mishra as the prime accused, who is son of Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested two IS operatives in a case relating to a conspiracy hatched by the accused persons to further terror activities of Islamic State in India.

Singhvi contended that the CCI passed extraordinary directions and the compliance date has been fixed as January 19, though the appeal was filed in December. Singhvi said, "I am asking (listing of the case) for Friday..."

Functional Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) from now on will not file the charge sheet or any document which are meant to be filed before the adjudicating authorities, said a circular issued by Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora.

A successful training launch of Short-Range Ballistic Missile, Prithvi-II was carried out from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, off the Odisha coast, on Tuesday, defence officials said.

The Supreme Court collegium on Tuesday approved the proposals for the appointment of nine persons - seven judicial officers and two lawyers - as judges of various high courts.

The Air Quality Index in Delhi and its surrounding areas remained in "severe" category on Tuesday with PM 2.5 levels at 421 in the capital and PM 2.5 at 529 in Gurugram, according to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).

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.