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Amit Shah on Friday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of maintaining silence on the issue of Sandeshkhali, where complaints of sexual abuse have emerged against TMC leaders, and said the BJP «will not spare single culprit and will hang them upside down». While addressing an election rally at Majdia in Ranaghat Lok Sabha seat in Nadia district, Shah alleged that Banerjee was «misleading» people on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) and slammed the TMC dispensation over alleged corruption cases in the state. On the incidents in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, where allegations of sexual abuse against TMC leaders have been made, Shah said it is a matter of shame that «Mamata Banerjee, despite being a woman chief minister, tried to protect the culprits».

Enforcement Directorate on Friday filed a fresh charge sheet in Delhi excise policy case. The probing agency has named BRS leader K Kavitha as an accused in the matter, news agency PTI has reported citing officials. On March 15, Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, was apprehended by the federal agency at her residence in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. As per PTI report, a prosecution complaint has been lodged under sections 45 and 44(1) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) before a designated court.

ALSO READ: Dubai-Jamaica chartered flight, with several Indians onboard, sent back: 'Docs weren't satisfactory,' says MEA The incident took place after a suspected briefcase bomb brought down the plane over the mountains of Czechoslovakia, allegedly by Croatian nationalists. In the incident, all passengers and four crew members died, but Vulovic survived and became the first and only person to survive a 33,000-foot fall without a parachute.

Google to file its reply to appeals filed by KukuFM, Shaadi.com and the Indian Broadcasting and Digital Foundation (IBDF) against a Competition Commission of India order. The antitrust regulator in a March 20 order had denied them interim relief in a case over the fee levied by the tech giant for listing apps on its Play Store. The appellate tribunal will likely take up the matter on May 24.

News18, “Efforts were made that Jharkhand CM and Delhi CM don't campaign in Lok Sabha Elections. But now, Delhi CM can campaign for the remaining period. This is not a victory of AAP or India alliance, but the victory of the people of India." TMC leader Majeed Memon said that it was very difficult to justify or appreciate ED's strong opposition to bail.

Also read: Can Perplexity do to Google what Microsoft did to IBM back in the day? They approached NCLAT after the CCI rejected their pleas on 20 March, saying there were insufficient grounds for such action. However, the CCI asked its Director General (DG) – its independent investigative arm – to continue its probe into Google's Play Store policies. The CCI had launched the probe on 15 March, saying Google may have violated various parts of Competition Act, and asked the director general to complete the investigation in 60 days.

Live Law, quoting apex court. The apex court has asked Delhi CM to surrender and go back to jail on June 2. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) opposed the bail on ground of electioneering, and said that no such precedents available.

P Chidambaram on May 10 questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman over Rahul Gandhi’s demand of enquiry into the Prime Minister’s allegation that the grand old party has received "tempo loads of black money" from industrialists Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani. The silence of the two leaders is ominous, said the former Union Minister, Chidambaram. "The Hon'ble Prime Minister had made a very serious allegation: that two prominent industrialists have tempo-filling quantities of cash and they were delivered to the Congress party.

PTI reported. Tarun Kothari, a radiologist and activist, criticized the government's approach at the presser, and said, "The government has wholly ignored the rising number of cases of tragic deaths post-Covid vaccination all the while and continues to promote Covid vaccines as 'safe and effective', without scientific investigation and invoking epidemiology," he said, as quoted by PTI.

Jahanjeb Sami and Hina Bashir Baig, a couple residing in Delhi's Jamia Nagar, have been sentenced for their ties to the Islamic State (IS). The duo, arrested in 2020 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, were found guilty of attempting to establish a caliphate and plotting 100 blasts in the city. Sami received sentences ranging from three to 20 years, while Baig was awarded two seven-year sentences. The investigation revealed their online personas as active radicalizers linked to IS operatives in Syria and Afghanistan. Sami and Baig, both in their mid-30s, moved to Delhi from Jammu and Kashmir in 2019. Sami, with a BTech and MBA, worked for a UK-based firm, while Baig, after her MBA, had worked in banks before taking a break. They rented a flat in Jamia Nagar's C Block, initially enjoying weekends outdoors. However, the 2019 anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests and the subsequent COVID-19 pandemic kept them indoors, where they spent time surfing the internet. Arrest and Investigation

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A man accused of killing three men who were on a surfing trip in Mexico allegedly confessed the crime to his girlfriend, according to testimony read in court Wednesday.

No reliable evidence of Indian involvement in foiled Pannun murder plot: Russia In November last year, the US authorities said an Indian government official had directed the plot in the attempted murder of Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. The US White House in April said it viewed the reported role of the Indian intelligence service in the assassination plots as a very serious matter. As per the US Justice Department indictment, Indian national Nikhil Gupta was involved in the alleged attempt to kill Pannun.

Gurpatwant Singh Pannun is an ongoing legal matter, the US State Department said it «won't speak» until «allegations are proved» before a jury. Gurpatwant Singh Pannun is an India-designated terrorist who holds American and Canadian citizenship.

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Former Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has been sentenced to a year in prison for interfering in a criminal investigation while leading the government of his South Pacific island nation

Manipur police have rescued a CRPF personnel who was abducted by unknown miscreants from Shantipur village of Imphal West district. A case has been registered for further investigation, Manipur police have posted on X. A senior police official, who did not want to be named, told ET that the incident took place along the national highway when the CRPF personnel was going to his village. The person has been identified as Lensat Sitlhou, son of Ngulkhomang Sitlhou, of Keithelmanbi Military Colony. The abducted jawan was reportedly brutally assaulted by the abductors, the police official said.

Kalpana Soren, wife of former chief minister Hemant Soren, told ET, brushing aside suggestions that she plans to take over the top role if she wins the Gandey assembly by-election. «No, I do not want to be the chief minister after winning the byelection from Gandey. These are rumours and I don't understand why people are spreading them,» Kalpana told ET in an exclusive interview at her sprawling home near CM Champai Soren's official residence in the state capital. «People should not link this byelection to the CM's position. Hemant Sorenji has given the legacy to Champai Sorenji. There is no possibility of change in this position,» she said. The 48-year-old homemaker took a plunge in politics after the arrest of her husband on January 31 by the ED in a land case.

enforcement agencies against its candidates or office bearers. A BJP spokesperson, however, denied that the Opposition was being targeted for political reasons. Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) Sena's candidate for Mumbai North-West, Amol Kirtikar, has received a notice from Enforcement Directorate hours after he filed his nomination. The notice was in a case of 'providing substandard khichdi' to migrant workers after the Modi government's overnight nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of Covid-19. Similarly, Nashik police served UBT Sena district chief Sudhakar Badgujar with an 'externment' notice. He has several cases against him and it is not clear why the notice was served on him. However, he was in the news for allegedly dancing in a farmhouse in 2016 with Salim Kutta, an aide of gangster Dawood Ibrahim convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. The notice was served hours after Shiv Sena minister Dada Bhuse said, during a campaign for Sena MP Hemant Godse, that CM Eknath Shinde should look into the Badgujar and Kutta issue. Godse is engaged in a tough fight with UBT Sena's Rajabhau Waje in Nashik.

Reuters, adding one was injured too. Identifying the victims, the police said that the workers were from Sahiwal in Punjab. Police have taken the injured to the hospital for treatment and started an investigation to arrest the perpetrators.