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The enforcement agencies have seized cash, gold, liquor etc valued over Rs.109 crore across the state since October 9 when the model code of conduct came into force for the November 30 Assembly election.The total cash seized by authorities rose to Rs.58.96 crore with seizure of Rs.7.29 crore during the last 24 hours that ended at 9 a.m. on October 16.The agencies have also seized 64.2 kg gold, 400 kg silver, and 42.203 carat diamonds all worth Rs.33.62 crore.During the intense checking within the state and on inter-state checkposts, police, excise and other departments have so far seized 44,093 litres…

Additional Sessions Judge Devender Kumar Jangala of Patiala House Courts extended the custody of Lava International MD Hari Om Rai, CA Nitin Garg and Chinese national Guangwen Kuang, till October 18 after expiry of their three-day earlier granted remand. The court took the decision on the ground that the probe agency was able to make out the case for grant of further custody. “There appears to be continuity in the stand taken by Enforcement Directorate with regard to extraction of digital data and the accused persons to be confronted with the same. Therefore, considering the settled principles of law and…

Its CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar said the company is “significantly reducing the size of our go-to-market organisation and “supporting teams and other teams across the organisation are impacted as well”.“Over the last 15 years, we’ve built Stack Overflow into an industry-crucial knowledge base for millions of developers and technologists. During this time we’ve experienced years filled with opportunities and challenges. This year is no different,” he wrote in a blog post.“Changes have been pursued through the lens of minimising impact to the lives of Stackers. Unfortunately, those changes were not enough and we have made the extremely difficult decision to reduce…

The bail was granted by the court of Amit Kumar Verma, judicial magistrate first class of Nuh.”Monu Manesar got bail and furnished Rs 1 lakh surety bond,” his counsel said. Manesar (30), who is also accused in the Nasir-Junaid murder case in Rajasthan and an attempt to murder case at Gurugram’s Pataudi, will stay in jail pending bails in both cases. Manesar was arrested by the Nuh police on September 12 and was taken on transit remand by the Rajasthan police on the same day in the Nasir-Junaid murder case. He was brought back by Haryana police on transit remand…

It directed the Commissioner to initiate action against the officials for acting in violation of rules. The court order came on a habeas corpus petition filed by senior Congress leader Mallu Ravi. Counsel for the petitioner had told the court that the three persons were kept in illegal custody for 18 hours and released after a habeas corpus petition was filed. He had sought orders to the police to pay compensation of Rs.20 lakh to each of the detained for illegal custody. The police had raided the Telangana Congress war room run by the party’s poll strategist, Sunil Kanugolu for…

Ending a 23-year-long litigation in various courts, the high court rejected a plea made by the current owner and 24 tenants who opposed the takeover plan of the property by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to construct a national memorial dedicated to the Phule couple in Bhidewada.Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar, PMC Commissioner Vikram Kumar, Legal Advisor Nisha Chavan and others have welcomed the verdict, terming it as ‘historic’ and appropriate during the ongoing auspicious Navratri festival.175 years ago, the Phule couple lit the first lamp for girls’ education by starting a small school…

“The changes we shared with our team today will result in a reduction of approximately 668 roles across our engineering, product, talent and finance teams,” LinkedIn said in a blogpost.The cut comes as the business-oriented social network has experienced slow revenue growth for eight consecutive quarters, CNBC reported.It grew by just 5 per cent in the second quarter, despite accelerating membership growth for the past two years, Microsoft said in July.According to the report, LinkedIn is now ramping up hiring in India.”While we are adapting our organisational structures and streamlining our decision making, we are continuing to invest in strategic…

As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, a Constitution Bench, headed by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud will pronounce the judgment on Tuesday. In May this year, the Constitution Bench, also comprising Justices S.K. Kaul, S.R. Bhat, Hima Kohli, and P.S. Narasimha, reseved its judgment after hearing arguments on both sides. During hearing, the Centre had submitted before the apex court that the court’s hintining at a possibility of declaration being made something less than marriage but something more than the present status may not be the correct course of action. Further, the Union government agreed to…

“In exercise of the power conferred by clause ( 1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Siddharth Mridul, Judge of the Delhi High Court, to be Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office,” read a notification issued on Monday. Recently, Attorney General R. Venkataramani had submitted before the apex court that the file relating to appointment of Chief Justice of Manipur High Court has been cleared by the Centre and an official notification will be published very soon. In…

He said that the state government is claiming to complete this project in the year 2051 and has announced to spend Rs 37,000 crore but after so far no work has been done in the name of this scheme. He said that Chief Minister of Rajasthan is not the Chief Minister but the “Minister of Announcement.”“For ERCP, the Chief Minister talked about creating an ERCP Corporation and giving Rs 13,000 crores, but till now not even a single penny has been spent,” Rathore said while addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters.He said that Kamal Nath was the first…