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Baba Siddique murder case, an official said. The NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister was shot at on October 12 near his MLA son Zeeshan Siddique's office in Nirmal Nagar area in Bandra East. He died some time later at a nearby hospital. A Crime Branch team that had gone to Nagpur in connection with the probe held Sumit Dinkar Wagh (26), a resident of Panaj in Akot tehsil in Akola, the official said. «Wagh transferred money from an account in Karnataka Bank's Petlad Branch in Gujarat's Anand district to Nareshkumar, brother of arrested accused Gurmail Singh, as well as arrested accused Rupesh Mohol and Harishkumar. He transferred the money online using a SIM brought in the name of arrested accused Salman Vora,» he said.

Walmart and the workforce payments company Branch Messenger on Monday of forcing more than a million delivery drivers into using accounts that cost them more than $10 million in junk fees, Reuters reported.

Federal prosecutors in Tennessee say two tax preparers submitted $65 million in false claims for refunds under programs designed to help businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic

Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman has launched the National MSME Cluster Outreach Programme, organised jointly by the Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance, Government of India, and Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). The launch took place on Saturday. Around 150 MSME Clusters were connected virtually for the launch with senior bank officials being present in each of these Clusters. The programme aims to ensure access to Financial Services and promote the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) across the country, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement.

Federal health officials are calling for more testing and treatment of workers on farms with bird flu

Briefing occurred Tuesday in Renton, Washington, detailing «defect» from supplier.

EBAday has provided this to the Finextra and EBA community, year on year, for 18 years and will again in Lisbon at the CCL from 18-19 June 2024, leading the conversation on orchestrating the dialogue on payments and the advantages of collaboration.

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a case against a Punjab National Bank (PNB) official for allegedly embezzling Rs 4.98 crore from the account of a Bhopal-based infrastructure construction company. The incident reportedly occurred at PNB's Delhi Road Branch in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh. Unauthorised Transactions According to officials, head cashier Mukul Singh, in collusion with Vinod Kumar Singh, merged the account of Dilip Buildcon Ltd with that of Star Raze, owned by Vinod Kumar Singh. Subsequently, Rs 4.98 crore was allegedly transferred to various accounts via internet banking, resulting in a corresponding loss to PNB.

Delhi NCR on Wednesday morning as bomb threats, conveyed via email, prompted evacuations and heightened security measures. Among the institutions targeted were Delhi Public School, Dwarka; Mother Mary School, Mayur Vihar; Sanskriti School; and Amity International School branches in Saket and Noida.

Salman Khan's Bandra residence on April 14. The Kutch Police on Tuesday arrested the two accused identified as Vicky Gupta (24) and Sagar Pal (21) and handed them to the Mumbai Crime Branch. Later, a city court sent the two accused to the custody of the Mumbai Crime Branch until April 25 in connection with the firing incident.

The Beijing police, in collaboration with the Beijing Branch of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, has uncovered a series of cases involving the illegal sale of citizen information using crypto.

Sadanand Vasant Date, who bravely fought terrorists during the 26/11 Mumbai attack, on Sunday took over the reins of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), according to an official statement. Date, a 1990 batch Indian Police Service officer of Maharashtra cadre, succeeded Dinkar Gupta, who superannuated on Sunday. Before joining the NIA, Date was serving as the chief of Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in Maharashtra. He has held several important positions in Maharashtra, including thoseof Police Commissioner of Mira-Bhayandar Vasai-Virar, Joint Commissioner Law and order, and Joint Commissioner Crime Branch Mumbai, said the statement issued by the NIA.

Muktar Ansari, who died after suffering cardiac arrest on Thursday, revealed everything «fearlessly» and «confidently» about his crime when he was arrested by a team of Delhi Police Crime Branch in connection with a highly sensational case in 1993. The case pertained to ransom for kidnapping a businessman from Lutyens Delhi. «He was around 30-years-old then, full of confidence and showing no fear of law. That was a highly sensational case in those days,» recalled Ashok Chand, a retired Delhi Police officer, who led the team and ensured the safe rescue of the businessman from Panchkula at the Punjab-Haryana border, 250 kilometers away from Delhi. Ansari and his two associates had demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore from the family members of the west Delhi-based businessman Ved Prakash Goel. The calls were made from a local phone booth of Panchkula, where they had hid Goel in a rented accommodation.

Competing with over 40 foreign banks in India, Maybank Indonesia's Global Banking Director, Ricky Antariksa, said the Bank seeks to continue supporting business and trade relations between Indonesia and India. "Maybank Indonesia has been present in India for over ten years, and we are committed to further support and capture our business flows while continuing to serve trade clients through our branch in Mumbai.

ALSO READ: Timeline of Bengaluru Rameshwaram Cafe blast as caught in camera: 'In 86 minutes...' Rameshwaram Cafe owner Raghavendra Rao said, “We have taken all precautions before reopening. The government and police have guided us on where to install more CCTVs. We will appoint one person just to keep a watch on the premises...authorities are also helping out with the metal detectors." While the cafe was reopened on Friday, it said that it will be thrown open to the public from 6 am on Saturday, March 9.

Chandigarh Crime Branch in Punjab has apprehended three more operatives of the Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldy Brar Gang. The three have been identified as Maya, Amanpreet Singh and Parvinder Singh. Superintendent of Police (SP) Ketan Bansal said that the key accused woman, who is a resident of Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, has been nabbed, and along with her, two of her associates who provided the logistics have also been arrested.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the owner of a medical marijuana dispensary who says state regulations that forbid him from advertising in most media amount to censorship

Until recently, OpenAI wouldn’t allow its models to be used for activity that had “high risk of physical harm, including weapons development, military and warfare." Now it has removed the words ‘military’ and ‘warfare’. Is this a routine update, or should we be worried? Until recently, OpenAI had explicitly banned the use of its models for weapons development and military and warfare.

eligible shareholders of Tinplate Company of India will receive fully paid-up equity shares of Tata Steel in the share exchange ratio of 33:10. It means 33 fully paid-up ordinary equity shares of Tata Steel with a face value of ₹1 each to be allotted for every 10 fully paid-up equity shares of TCIL of face value ₹10 each, the company said.

Chinese authorities have recently dismantled a massive underground banking network valued at $2.2 billion, which was ingeniously using foreign digital currency platforms to circumvent the country’s stringent financial controls. This operation came to light following a detailed investigation by Chinese foreign exchange police.

Chinese authorities have reportedly dismantled an illegal underground banking operation that moved some $2.2 billion between China and other countries using overseas “virtual currency trading platforms.”