Category: NATIONAL NEWS

London, Jul 5 (DIN NEWS) A UK High Court judge has issued an enforcement order in favour of a consortium of 13 Indian banks, seeking to recover funds owed to them by beleaguered liquor baron Vijay Mallya who is fighting extradition to India on fraud and money laundering charges worth nearly Rs 9,000 crore. The order grants permission to the UK High Court Enforcement Officer to enter the 62-year-old tycoon’s properties in Hertfordshire, near London. It permits the officer and his agents entry to Ladywalk and Bramble Lodge in Tewin,…

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New Delhi, Jul 4 (DIN NEWS) Hours after the Supreme Court held that the Delhi LG does not have independent decision-making powers, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today held a cabinet meeting and directed officials to expedite projects like doorstep delivery of rations and installation of CCTV cameras. Officers have been directed to work as per the Supreme Court’s orders, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said at a press conference after the cabinet meeting that lasted eight-minutes. Sisodia said with the apex court’s verdict on the power tussle between the Centre…

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Mumbai, Jul 4 (DIN NEWS) Banks’ unsecured loan book has grown four times the bank credit during the past three years, helped by a rise in discretionary spending, technology-driven disbursements and lower interest rates, says a report. Unsecured loans are the loans where individual exposures are smaller and more distributed and given without any collaterals but banks get higher margins. Typically personal loan, education loans and credit card spends fall under this category of loans. “Between fiscals 2015 and 2018, unsecured credit – comprising personal, small and medium enterprise (SME),…

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Jaipur, July 3 (DIN NEWS) Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot today held Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s policies responsible for corruption in the state and claimed that farmers are not getting domestic power connections despite depositing the security amount. He alleged that the domestic power connections of farmers are pending for more than a year. “Rajasthan has already created a record of farmer suicide due to the government’s anti-farmer policy. Now the farmers are running from pillar to post to get domestic power connection but they do not get any satisfactory…

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Mumbai, Jul 3 (DIN NEWS) An over-bridge at a railway station in Mumbai’s Andheri suburb collapsed on Tuesday during heavy rains, disrupting train services, injuring five people and putting the spotlight once again on the creaky infrastructure of this metropolis A major disaster was also averted as a packed train that was to pass Andheri station stopped a few metres from the collapsed bridge, thanks to motor man Chandrashekhar B Sawant’s quick action in stopping the train when he saw a portion of the bridge collapsing “I immediately applied emergency…

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Jaipur, July 2 (DIN NEWS) Rajasthan Congress Chief Sachin Pilot today alleged that the BJP government has institutionalised corruption as a “transfer racket” was operating in the state. “Government employees and officers who do not have resources and approach are being exploited by the government. They are being transferred on recommendations to benefit the relatives and those known to BJP leaders,” Pilot claimed. He alleged that BJP governments in the Centre and the state were turning a blind eye to all sections of the society and was working to take…

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New Delhi, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) India can play a major role in the present “unstable world” to achieve global peace and prosperity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today told the country’s heads of missions in foreign countries at a conference here. The prime minister addressed the envoys on the last day of the three-day conference during which the country’s foreign policy priorities were deliberated upon. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, at the session, said, “India’s global profile and prestige have gone up significantly” since Prime Minister Modi has assumed office.…

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Lucknow, Jul 1 (DIN NEWS) Citing a data that deposits of Indians had increased in Swiss banks, BSP supremo Mayawati today asked whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi would accept his “failure in bringing back black money”. The BSP leader also attacked the central government over the falling value of the Indian Rupee against the US Dollar. “Will Modi government not like to take credit of rise in money in Swiss banks? The question which arises in the nation’s interest is that why money earned in India is in a foreign…

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New Delhi, Jul 1 (DIN NEWS) Eleven members of a family, including seven women, were found dead under mysterious circumstances in north Delhi’s Burari on Sunday morning, the police said Ten bodies were found hanging and blindfolded, while a 75-year-old woman’s body was found on the floor. Two of the deceased are minors, they said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Delhi BJP Chief Manoj Tiwari visited the spot According to police, they were initially informed by a neighbour that six to seven people have committed suicide But upon reaching the…

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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was again trolled on Twitter today and accused of appeasing Muslims. Her husband Swaraj Kaushal tweeted a screenshot of a post by a Twitter user who asked him to teach the minister not to do Muslim appeasement .Swaraj also retweeted some of the tweets by that personThis comes days after Swaraj was trolled and abused on Twitter over a controversy involving the issuance of passport to an interfaith couple. A Passport Seva Kendra official, Vikas Mishra, in Lucknow was transferred after the interfaith couple alleged…

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