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The accused identified as T. Shivanna’s wife, R.N. Manjula Kumar, has also been sentenced to one year and fined Rs 1 lakh, while M Narayanaswamy, a partner of Aditya Builders Pvt. Ltd. in Bangalore, will also serve one year imprisonment and fine of Rs 1 lakh.The case against the accused was registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on allegations that T Shivanna, during his tenure as a public servant at the South Western Railway in Bengaluru from January 1, 2005, to June 29, 2014, had misused his official position to accumulate both movable and immovable assets in his…

Manama : The Bahrain Royal Equestrian and Endurance Federation (BREEF) will host the important international and local qualifier events for the 2023/2024 endurance season on Saturday.  The qualifiers will take place at the prestigious Bahrain International Endurance Village, with distances of 120km, 100km, 80km and 40km on the schedule. Riders from top Bahraini stables such as KHK and Al Muharraq Equestrian Academy will be in action, all aiming to earn qualification for prestigious upcoming tours and championships on the calendar. Coaches have expressed confidence in their charges after intensive preparation.  BREEF aims to deliver the qualifiers to the highest standard…

Ahmedabad, Nov 3 (IANS) Saturday can turn out to be a crucial day in the preliminary stage of the ICC Men’s ODI World Cup 2023 and involves two teams in the top four and two aspiring to make it to the semifinals. Saturday’s doubleheader involving a match between traditional rivals, defending champion England and five-time winners Australia and the other pitting New Zealand against Pakistan could decide the fortunes of all four teams.Only hosts India, with 14 points from seven wins, have secured their place in the knockout stage with three semifinal spots still up for grabs with several teams…

Bengaluru, Nov 3 (IANS) Prime Volleyball League’s Ahmedabad DEfeners will be in the fray as for the first time, India will both participate and play host in the Club World Championships 2023 at the Koramangala Indoor Stadium here. With 10 action-packed matches scheduled to take place between December 6 and 10, volleyball fans in India are in for a rare treat.Six teams from around the globe will vie for supremacy, including reigning champions, Sir Safety Susa Perugia from Italy, Sada Cruzeiro Volei, and Minas Tênis Clube from Brazil, Suntory Sunbirds Club from Japan, Halkbank Spor Kulübü from Turkey, and the Ahmedabad Defenders from India.The Ahmedabad Defenders will…

Tel Aviv, Nov 3 (IANS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Hezbollah leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah of unimaginable consequences if any misadventure will take place in northern areas of Israel. Netanyahu was responding to Nasrallah’s speech on Friday in which the Hezbollah leader said that his group has joined ranks from October 8 to the attack Israel along with Yemen and Iraqi groups.“Don’t get us wrong. There will not be any cease fire until all our hostages are free,” Netanyahu said.He said that Israel will never agree to a temporary ceasefire and only will agree after all the 241…

“Classifying affordable housing as units up to Rs 45 lakh is unrealistic given the high price of land in cities, Dinesh Kapila, Economic Advisor at the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MHUA) said on Friday.“In response to the industry’s call for improving the definition of affordable housing, a proposal has been forwarded to the Union Finance Ministry. We are particularly concerned about high land prices in metropolitan cities like Delhi and Mumbai, which make the current price range for affordable houses of less than Rs 45 lakh inadequate. “We have requested the Finance Ministry to consider raising this threshold…

In the national capital, the AQI at Anand Vihar remained in the ‘severe’ category with PM 10 at 446 while PM 2.5 was recorded at 376 under ‘very poor’ category. The NO2 was recorded at 101 and CO at 112 under ‘moderate’ category, as per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).At Bawana, the PM 2.5 reached 348 under ‘very poor’ category while PM 10 was at 277 under ‘poor’ category. The CO was recorded at 72 and NO2 at 40, both in ‘satisfactory’ levels, at 8 p.m.The station at Delhi Technical University (DTU) recorded PM 10 at 277 (‘poor’), while…

Pranav Gupta, Vineet Gupta and SK Bansal, a CA, were arrested on October 28.The court remanded them to ED custody till November 2, which has been further extended to November 4.The ED had conducted searches at 20 locations in Chandigarh, Panchkula, Sonepat and Delhi in a bank fraud case involving Rs 1,626.7 crore against Parabolic Drugs Limited, Chandigarh and recovered movable and immovable assets to the tune of Rs 114 crore.The ED in a statement said that it carried out searches under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on October 27 and also recovered the digital devices and various incriminating…

Chadha was suspended in August this year on charges of not taking the consent of five Rajya Sabha MPs before including their names in a select committee. In its order, a bench headed by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said that the apology tendered by the AAP leader will be “sympathetically” considered by the Rajya Sabha Chairperson. The bench recorded the statement made by Chadha’s lawyer that the suspended AAP MP will seek an appointment with Vice-President Dhankhar to explain that he had no intention to affect the dignity of the Upper House of…

Justice Navin Chawla granted time for the parties to complete the pleadings and allowed the Internet Freedom Forum to intervene by filing written submissions.One petitioner urged the court to direct search engine Google to block search results related to certain allegations against him in a criminal case since a closure report was filed by the investigating agency. Google opposed this request, stating it cannot act as a censor or whitewash history.The judge noted that while the information published by websites might have been true at the relevant time, it was now incomplete in the face of a subsequent closure report.…