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Chinese visa scam case: Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court has on June 6, granted “regular bail" to Congress leader Karti P Chidambaram in money laundering case, ANI reported.Earlier in April, Justice Kaveri Baweja, Special judge for Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cases had granted interim bail to three accused in the case on personal bonds of ₹1 lakh each, as per a PTI report. Track | Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE Updates hereThese included Chidambaram's former chartered accountant S Bhaskararaman, besides Vikas Makharia and Mansoor Siddiqi, it added.The ED has registered a money laundering case against Karti Chidambaram and other accused in the alleged scam pertaining to issuance of visa to 263 Chinese nationals in 2011 when his father and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram was the Union Home Minister.Also Read | Nitish Kumar's two-word advice to Narendra Modi at NDA meeting: ‘Jaldi Kijiye’As per the ED, the volume of the laundered money is yet to be established and the alleged payment of ₹50 lakh bribe, as mentioned in the CBl case, cannot be considered as the basis of the present case.The ED registered its case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) following an FIR lodged by the CBI in the same case.Chidambaram was latest in the news for defeating AIADMK's Xavierdass by a margin of 2,05,664 votes from Sivaganga Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu in the just concluded General Elections.Also Read | Bill Gates memoir 'Source Code' next year: Early years, nearly being kicked out of Harvard, Microsoft & more…Chidambaram won Sivaganga Lok Sabha seat with 4,27,677 votes on June 4.

boxer, Andrew Tham, aged just 28 years old, succumbed to injuries following a severe road accident in Scotland. The nasty incident and news of his death comes days after he went toe-to-toe in a title fight in the Celtic Featherweight title clash against George Stewart.

TORONTO — A proposed class-action lawsuit has been launched against Toronto-Dominion Bank related to the ongoing investigations into the bank’s anti-money-laundering program in the U.S.

TMC MP Saket Gokhale has asked securities market regulator Sebi to investigate the June 3 stock market manipulation triggered by election exit polls. In a letter to Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch, Gokhale said multiple exit polls predicted a landslide win for the BJP. But, one exit poll predicted “extremely strange” and “inflated seat numbers” for the BJP in several Indian states.

Follow Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE Updates hereMoitra's victory margin was 56,705 votes. She bagged 6,24,711 votes and was leading by an irreversible margin of 57,083 over her nearest BJP rival Amrita Roy, who managed to pocket 5,67,628 votes.

Crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin based in Japan, which suffered a major hack losing 4,502.9 Bitcoin on Friday, is planning to raise funds to buy BTC in order to compensate its customers.

A 74-year-old woman was declared dead in a nursing home in Nebraska on Monday. Two hours later, a funeral home employee noticed the woman was alive and still breathing.

Martin Walcoe, the CEO and president of David Lerner Associates Inc., is the latest senior executive at the firm to face an investigation by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. over the appropriate or suitable sale of proprietary energy funds to clients.

incident unfolded in Nebraska. Septuagenarian Constance Glantz was taken to a funeral home after being declared deceased at a nursing home. The incident, nevertheless, unexpectedly changes.

Text messages obtained by Global News raise questions about whether Employment MinisterRandy Boissonnault engaged with his former business partner on deals a year after he joined the federal cabinet, but Boissonnault denies that he’s the “Randy” referenced in the exchange.

The chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, a conservative multinational media company, has been indicted in a multi-year scheme to launder tens of millions of dollars in fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and other funds

A company that bred beagles for medical research has agreed to pay a record $35 million as part of a criminal plea admitting it neglected thousands of dogs at its breeding facility in rural Virginia

Recent documents submitted to a U.S. federal court allege that major British bank Standard Chartered helped finance sanctioned Iranian entities and terrorist groups, and that relevant evidence was ignored by American authorities.

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Abdul Rashid Sheikh won comfortably in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 from Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla Parliamentary Constituency on Tuesday, June 4.The Union Territory witnessed its first general elections after the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019.Sheikh, also known as Engineer Rashid, polled 454950 votes in North Kashmir's Baramulla Parliamentary Constituency. His rival and former chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, conceded defeat and congratulated the independent candidate, who fought the elections behind bars.Abdul Rashid, or Engineer Rashid, is a former two-time MLA from Langate in North Kashmir.

Sri Lanka beckon the shadowy betting rings. As Dubai turns too hot for comfort amid the glare of investigation on the online gambling empire Mahadev, some of the other faceless operators of illegal betting apps are moving to Sri Lanka.

Chhattisgarh's Naxal-hit Sukma district, an official said on Monday. The incident took place on the intervening night of Sunday-Monday in Gadiras village when the deceased, identified as head constable Sodi Laxman, had gone to visit a fair there, the official said. Unidentified persons attacked him with sharp-edged weapons on his neck. He died on the spot, the official said. After being alerted, a team from Gadiras police station rushed to the spot and sent the body for post-mortem, he said.

Fresh allegations that a longtime Toronto-Dominion Bank branch worker in Florida took a series of US$200 bribes to help clients move millions to Colombia by skirting anti-money-laundering defences are adding to the lender’s mushrooming U.S. legal problems.

Bill Hwang is pushing to bring up the probe of Morgan Stanley block-trading leaks in an attempt to bolster his defense. 

HBO's satirical show "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver." He has been hosting the show for almost a decade now, and it is highly acclaimed for its in-depth exploration of current events and social issues, often blending comedy with investigative journalism."Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" has won numerous awards, including several Primetime Emmy Awards, for its intelligent commentary and investigative reporting. The audience loves John for his style, which combines wit, satire, and thorough research.

Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldie Brar gangs allegedly considered employing minors to carry out the killing of Bollywood actor Salman Khan, according to police. Navi Mumbai Police uncovered a plot to kill the actor during their investigation disclosing a video call conversation between Lawrence Bishnoi gang member Ajay Kashyap and another accused.