Supreme Court had ruled that the managing director and chair of a private bank are 'public servants' under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
Thousands lost access to their savings in a bank fraud case run by rural lenders in two Chinese provinces. Protests were met with violence & WeChat surveillance by the Communist Party.
Operational for six months, the syndicate behind 'scam' used four methods — selling/providing SIM cards, providing dummy accounts, scamming via tele-callers, and E-Mitra associates.
CBI FIR claims DHFL promoters, in connivance with others, duped a consortium of 17 banks to the tune of Rs 34,615 crore and diverted these funds to entities 'connected to DHFL'.
According to FIR, bank purchased property ‘at a high price to confer undue benefit to vendor’, as part of ‘criminal conspiracy’ between its officials & owners of Akruti Gold Builders.
The eight states that haven’t given consent for the CBI to probe cases on their turf are Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, and Mizoram.
Case has raised questions like how fraud went undetected for so long, how it came to light, how money was diverted, and what led to delay in CBI registering FIR. ThePrint answers.
The FIR, registered after a complaint by Central Bank of India, states that the accused persons/entities have cheated the bank & committed forgery to cause wrongful losses.
Ship of Theseus director Anand Gandhi moved to Goa to synthesise big ideas and build an Indian sci-fi mythiverse with MAYA. ‘In a way, the job title in the East for this enterprise is the Buddha.’
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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