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New Delhi, Feb 17: The CBI on Saturday arrested three persons, including former deputy manager of Punjab National Bank (PNB) Gokulnath Shetty, in connection to the Nirav Modi fraud case. SWO Manoj Kharat and authorised signatory of the Nirav Modi Group of Firms Hemant Bhat were arrested along with Shetty. All three will be produced before the CBI special court in Mumbai today. Shetty is a co

New Delhi, Feb 17: Former Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely on Saturday, February 17, 2018, rejoined the party months after he quit to join the Bharatiya Janata Party. Mr. Lovely, met party chief Rahul Gandhi at his residence along with DelhiCongress chief Ajay Maken earlier. A key minister in the erstwhile Sheila Dikshit government in Delhi, Mr. Lovely raked up allegations of bribery in

New Delhi, Feb 17: The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is all set for his 7-day trip to India starting today. On Friday, Trudeau said his visit will be focused on job creation and strengthening ties between the two nations."Wheels up for India and a busy visit, focused on creating good jobs and strengthening the deep connection between the people of our two countries," he tweeted.The ties

Feb 17: The state-run lender Punjab National Bank (PNB), hit by a $1.77 billion fraud, promised investors on Friday it was putting in place "better checks and balances", as investigators widened the probe into the country's biggest-ever bank scam. The country's financial crime agency, the Enforcement Directorate, said it had searched dozens of locations linked to Nirav Modi, the diamond

New Delhi, Feb 17: Nirav Modi's name was, till recently, a stamp of corporate India's growing global prestige. On Hollywood red carpets, his diamonds sparkled on actors and models like Kate Winslet, Dakota Johnson and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. In India, billboards in Delhi bear the image of Priyanka Chopra, also adorned with Modi's jewels. But today, the government has suspended Modi's passport

Nirav Modi's rise to fame and fortune was meteoric. The Indian billionaire left his mark almost everywhere. On Hollywood red carpets, his diamonds have sparkled on the necklines and dangled from the earlobes of actors and models like Kate Winslet, Dakota Johnson and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. Back in India, billboards above the traffic jams of New Delhi bear the image of Priyanka Chopra, a

Lucknow, Feb 16: Yogi Adityanath government presented on Friday its Rs 4,28,384.52-crore budget for 2018-19 which is 11.4% higher than the last fiscal. Presenting the budget in the Assembly, finance minister Rajesh Agarwal said, “The budget size for 2018-19 is Rs 4,28,384,52 crore, which is 11.4% higher than the last fiscal”. The budget earmarks Rs 650 crore for Bundelkhand expressway project, Rs

New Delhi, Feb 16: He was a pupil and they examiners for the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told students across the country on Friday while stressing on the importance of confidence and concentration in dealing with exam stress. The prime minister's "Pareeksha pe charcha", ahead of the Class X and XII board examinations, was held at the Talkatora Stadium here. The Prime Minister's Office (PMO)

New Delhi, Feb 15: India will soon come out with a policy to scrap vehicles that are more than 15 years old, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said today. The policy aims at curbing rising vehicular pollution in the country. "We have almost finalised the scrapping policy for vehicles with NITI Aayog," the road and transport minister said. Vehicles completing 15 years or more would be scrapped, the

Hyderabad, Feb 16: Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on Thursday lauded India's cultural diversity, saying multiple faiths and schools of thought co-exist peacefully in the country. Speaking at a meeting with Muslim intellectuals, scholars and clerics in Hyderabad on Thursday night, Rouhani, who arrived in Hyderabad on a three-day India visit, said Islam is not a religion of violence, but one of