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Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rohit Singh Sajwan said all possible places were being raided for Arvind Gupta Marwari’s arrest.Station house officer (SHO), Daurala, Sanjay Sharma said the name of Marwari was included in the case following an investigation.“The court has directed to produce him before it by August 8. The proceeding for confiscation of properties will be started thereafter,” the SHO added.While Arvind Gupta Marwari is BJP Mahanagar (metropolitan) unit general secretary in Meerut, Sanjeev Jain Sikka has a minister of state rank in Uttar Pradesh. They are maternal cousins.Senior lawyer Ramesh Chand Gupta, the alleged kingpin of the…

Senior STF officials said the woman director, identified as Neelam Verma, a resident of Lucknow’s Para area, was arrested from behind RK marriage lawns in Bahadurkheda locality, under the Manak Nagar police station limits of Lucknow, on Saturday.A senior STF official said she was wanted in 23 criminal cases registered with Lucknow’s Vibhuti Khand and Hazratganj police stations in the matter since 2019.He said that along with key accused Abhay Kushwaha — lodged in Lucknow jail in the same matter — Rajesh Pandey, Nikhil Kushwaha, Azam Siddiqui and Shakeel Ahmad Khan, she was the director of the firm.The official said…

He was arrested from outside Hotel Hyatt Legacy in Lucknow late on Saturday night.A case had been registered against Vijay Mishra at the Atarsuiya police station for demanding extortion of Rs three crores, in which he is wanted. Police have also made him an accused in Umesh Pal murder case.Junior advocate Himanshu Pandey, who was with Vijay Mishra, informed the Lucknow police about his presence in the state capital.According to STF sources, Prayagraj police with the help of Lucknow STF arrested the lawyer from outside the hotel located in Vibhuti Khand.Advocate Himanshu Pandey said that he was present outside Hotel…

The initiative is a part of the Centre’s PM e-Vidya programme.These channels will broadcast subject-wise and class-wise educational videos for students from Classes 1 to 12. Additionally, videos on pre-primary education and others made specially for the differently abled children will be broadcast.The channels, which were made available free of charge on DD Free Dish and Dish TV from Saturday, bring supplementary education to children’s homes in their own languages.It may be noted that the PM e-Vidya programme was launched on May 17, 2020. One of its components was the launch of DTH TV channels under the One Class-One Channel…

The VSP is the first transformative, transparent and eco-friendly attempt by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari to organise the Indian scrappage industry, with loads of incentives-disincentives, and pave the way for ‘fitter and younger’ automobiles zooming on roads, thus enhancing safety and curbing pollution.Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chipped in by earmarking Rs 2,000 crore as Special Assistance for states to scrap (government) vehicles older than 15 years, plus road tax discounts/other concessions to private car owners opting to buy new automobiles in lieu of junking their vehicles.The Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI), Mumbai, which…

Bihar under the Nitish Kumar government has not seen any major communal riots in the last 17 years but the massive violence in Sasaram and Bihar Sharif during Ram Navami has put a question mark on governance.Since Ram Navami, several incidents have taken place in Bihar which started with small protests and then turned violent.The Katihar police firing on July 26 was a prime example of this where the people were protesting against erratic power supply in the Barsoi region and some of them pelted stones at the officials.Katihar superintendent of police Jitendra Kumar said: “It was a normal protest…

If official sources are to be believed, 23 cases of heroin smuggling have come to fore in the last two and a half years in four districts of Rajasthan which are near to Pakistan.During these occasions, 125 kg of heroin was brought into the state. Police in fact have seized drug pills, capsules and injections worth Rs 1 crore in the last two years.In the last two and a half years, 9000 cases of drug smuggling have been registered here and 11,000 people have been detained.Surprisingly, eight cops have also been found hand in glove with drug smugglers, said sources.Police…

Officials added that around 6,000 had ‘darshan’ inside the holy cave on the 29th day of the ongoing Amarnath Yatra on Saturday, as another batch of 1,974 pilgrims left Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in Jammu in an escorted convoy for the Valley on Sunday.“These 1,974 Yatris include 1,546 male, 363 female, four children, 45 Sadhus and 16 Sadhvis,” officials said.Thirty-six pilgrims have died during this year’s Yatra.Since it started on July 1, more than 3.8 lakh have so far performed this year’s Yatra to the Himalayan cave shrine.Pilgrims approach the Himalayan cave shrine either from the traditional south Kashmir Pahalgam…

The AICTE is a national-level apex advisory body to conduct a survey on the facilities available for technical education and to promote development in the country in a coordinated and integrated manner. It comes under the Union Education Ministry and is also responsible for accrediting all postgraduate and graduate programs, under specific categories of technology.There was a moratorium on the opening of new engineering colleges in the country till 2024, which, the AICTE chief – during an exclusive conversation with IANS – said, has been revoked now.Here are excerpts of the conversation:IANS: What are the new courses, which the AICTE…

“Sri Lanka is located at a strategic juncture along the sea lanes of the Indian Ocean and is an important partner in realising a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific”. I explained about the new plan for FOIP that Prime Minister Kishida announced in March this year, and said that Japan attaches importance to cooperation with the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), which Sri Lanka will chair from October,” Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said in Colombo after meeting Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday.In March, Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida informed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the FOIP and…