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The complaint is part of the FIR registered by CBI on June 2. The agency on Wednesday conducted searches at 14 locations spread across Delhi-NCR, Lucknow, Secunderabad and Kolkata and claimed to have recovered “incriminating documents and digital evidence”.

Choksi’s complaint, filed through his legal team, also claimed that he knew “Barbara Jabarica” since one year and detailed her role in the “operation” by “Indian agents”.

Choksi's lawyer Vijay Aggarwal and his wife Priti have, however, claimed Jarabica was part of an Indian operation, as part of which the jeweller, who is wanted in India, was “abducted” from Antigua and taken to Dominica.

The Ministry said if Twitter did not ensure immediate compliance with the guidelines, the protections accorded to it under Section 79 of the Information Technology (IT) Act would stand withdrawn and “Twitter shall be liable for consequences as per the IT Act and other penal laws of India”.

Mehul Choksi’s wife, in an interview to The Indian Express, said her husband had been befriended by Jarabica over the past six months during morning walks.

Priti alleged that her husband had been kidnapped from Antigua and Barbuda on May 23 in an operation led by Indian agencies.

In his reply, Bandyopadhyay told the Centre that he was scheduled to visit the cyclone-affected areas and was following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's order.

On Thursday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in Delhi gave the first official confirmation of India’s efforts to get Mehul Choksi back. MEA's official spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said, “Let me emphasise that India remains steadfast in its efforts to ensure that fugitives are brought back to India to face justice.”

MP Amarendra Dhari is stated to be the senior vice president of a firm involved in the case, identified as Jyoti Trading Corporation.

This amendment to Rule 8 means that pension can be withheld or withdrawn if the pensioner disobeys the rules — the retired official will have to sign an undertaking to this effect.

Alapan Bandyopadhyay was with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee when she decided to skip the Cyclone Yaas meeting in Kalaikunda.

India has sent a team of eight officials, including from the CBI and the Ministry of External Affairs, to secure Mehul Choksi’s deportation to India from Dominica. But the matter is now facing a legal hurdle.

Bandyopadhyay finds himself caught in a tussle between the Narendra Modi and Mamata Banerjee governments since the Chief Minister chose to skip a review meeting over Cyclone Yaas held by the Prime Minister.

According to an order issued by the Union Home Secretary, the 10 EGs will be headed by secretary-level bureaucrats from various ministries, Niti Aayog members and other officials.

The notification lists Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians as the communities that will be covered, and states that the applications will have to be submitted online.

Currently CISF chief, he has also served for long in Maharashtra, including in the ATS, as the Mumbai Commissioner of Police and the Maharashtra DGP.

The PM-led committee — with CJI NV Ramana and Leader of Opposition Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary — had on Monday selected Jaiswal, SSB chief KR Chandra and Special Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs VSK Kaumudi, as the three officers to choose from for the government.

The two candidates, among the frontrunners to the post, were dropped after Chief Justice of India N V Ramana cited a Supreme Court guideline on appointment of police chiefs.

The exercise, however, was not smooth, as Opposition member in the panel — Congress Lok Sabha leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury — registered his dissent over the procedure of selection.

The Hurriyat observes May 21 as martyr’s day in memory of Mirwaiz Mohammed Farooq and Abdul Ghani Lone, who were killed by militants on the same day, 12 years apart.

The agency Wednesday conducted searches at 12 locations—including Awasthi’s office and residence—in Delhi, Gurugram and Mumbai, among other places.

The amended FCRA has made it mandatory for all NGOs receiving foreign aid to open an account in State Bank of India’s (SBI) New Delhi Branch and the government, through an order in October last year, fixed the deadline for it to March 31.

Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who switched sides from TMC to join BJP in the run-up to the state elections, is among those against whom prosecution sanction is still pending.

No time for blame game, fight pandemic based on science and truth; need to be prepared for a third wave: Bhagwat.