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New Delhi, Feb 21: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Wednesday, arrested a General Manager rank officer of state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB) in connection with the Rs 11,400 cr scam. The CBI had earlier arrested Vipul Ambani and four other senior executives of Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi companies, on Tuesday, in the alleged PNB fraud case that continued for six years. Modi

Mumbai, Feb 21: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau downplayed talk of a snub by the Indian government on his first state visit to the country this week, and cast his trip as being focused on building business and cultural ties and not just political ones. “We are here in such large number and for so many days for a very simple reason. India matters to Canada,” Trudeau told a gathering in

New Delhi, Feb 20: The Delhi High Court today directed the police to investigate cheating allegations levelled against Gitanjali Gems promoter Mehul Choksi in an FIR lodged in 2016 by the owner of one of its retail franchises. A bench of Justice Mukta Gupta asked the police to file a report on the matter while noting that the probe was at a standstill as the complainant and the accused were trying

Balasore (Odisha), Feb 20: India today test-fired its medium range nuclear capable Agni-II missile with a strike range of 2,000 km from Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast, Defence sources said. The trial of the surface-to-surface missile was conducted from a mobile launcher at the Launch Complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at around 8.38 am, the sources said. The Intermediate Range

New Delhi, Feb 20: The CBI has refused to share details of expenses incurred to bring back to India fugitive businessmen Lalit Modi and Vijay Mallya, claiming immunity from disclosures under the RTI Act. Pune-based activist Vihar Dhurve had approached the agency seeking details of expenses incurred by the government to bring back Mallya, wanted in India on charges of Rs 9,000-crore fraud and Modi

Mumbai, Feb 20: Nirav Modi, the kingpin behind the largest banking scam in the country's history, has virtually wrung his arms in the air saying PNB's overzealousness has shut the doors on his ability to clear the dues, which he claimed is much lower than what the bank has gone public with. In a letter Modi wrote on February 15/16 to the PNB management, a copy of which PTI has seen, he pegged the

New Delhi, Feb 19: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against Rotomac pen promoter Vikram Kothari and his family in connection with a case related to the alleged swindling of Rs3,695 crore of bank loan funds, officials said here on Monday. The scam was earlier estimated at around Rs800 crore. The case against Kanpur-based Rotomac Global Pvt. ltd, its director Vikram

Shambulal Regar, the communal terrorist from Rajasthan, who thrashed and burnt a Muslim labourer from West Bengal to death two months ago without any reason, has released two new hate videos from the prison cell. The 36-year-old had killed and burnt the body of 50-year-old Mohammad Afrazul on December 6, 2017, and all of it was recorded on camera. The extremely disturbing video clips of the hate

Mumbai, Feb 19: As the Punjab National Bank-Nirav Modi scam seems to be compounding, banking employees associations have questioned the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the four successive governors. "Apart from PNB, the other organisation who should be answering a lot of questions in this matter is the RBI. Banking supervision and regulation in India must be made legally accountable. What were YV

Gorakhpur, Feb 19: A ruling BJP lawmaker and 27 other people have been booked under various charges, including rioting and criminal conspiracy, following a fracas over a land dispute in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, police said today. Kamlesh Paswan, the sitting MP from Bansgaon constituency, and others were booked last night in connection with the dispute in Rustampur area, Praveen Kumar Singh, who