Politician Financial News

Congress leaders on Thursday defended the decision of Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to decline the invitation to attend the Ram temple inauguration event in Ayodhya, a few other party members differed with the leadership's decision. Defending the party decision, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said the inauguration of the temple should have been done on Ram Navami after completion of the construction. «No pran pratishtha takes place until temple is complete… When this could have been easily done on Ram Navami in April, why is it being done on January 22? BJP, RSS and VHP are making this a political issue,» Singh said here while maintaining that Congress always respected all faiths.

South Korea is planning to enact a new piece of legislation that would require around 5,800 high-ranking public officials to make public disclosures of their cryptocurrencies and other asset holdings. In the aftermath of a number of legislative initiatives that have been undertaken with the intention of boosting openness and minimizing concerns about conflicts of interest in the public sector, this new trend has emerged.

Enforcement Directorate has summoned National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Thursday for questioning in a money laundering case, official sources said on Wednesday. The 86-year-old politician is understood to have been called in connection with the federal agency's investigation into alleged irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA).

Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the Pran Pratishta ceremony in the temple town of Uttar Pradesh.

NEW DELHI : New Delhi summoned the Maldivian high commissioner in India on Monday, after distasteful comments by Maldivian ministers raised the diplomatic temperature between the neighbours. Maldivian high commissioner Ibrahim Shaheeb was summoned to India’s ministry of external affairs (MEA) in New Delhi on Monday morning. “Our High Commission in Maldives had strongly raised and expressed concerns about the comments made in regard to the prime minister by certain ministers in the Maldives government with the foreign office today," an MEA official said.

Taliban-appointed prime minister met on Monday with one of Pakistan's most senior politicians in an attempt to reduce lingering tensions between the two countries, a spokesman for the Taliban government said. Fazlur Rehman, whose Jamiat Ulema Islam party is known for backing the Afghan Taliban, is the first senior Pakistani politician to visit Kabul since the Taliban seized power in neighbouring Afghanistan in August 2021 as US and NATO troops withdrew from the country after 20 years of war. The Pakistani delegation met with Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund in Kabul, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement.

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday scrapped lifetime bans from contesting elections for people with past convictions, Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa said, giving Nawaz Sharif the chance to become prime minister for a fourth time. Sharif's party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), is considered a frontrunner to win the election, scheduled for February 8, with his main rival, former prime minister Imran Khan, in jail and barred from contesting the polls for five years.

China and the Maldives will sign several agreements to further bolster their bilateral ties following talks between President Xi Jinping and his Maldivian counterpart Mohamed Muizzu here this week, according to a senior official here. President Xi will host a welcome ceremony and a welcome banquet for President Muizzu during his state visit from January 8-12, the first by the Maldivian leader to a foreign country since he assumed office in November, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said. The two heads of state will hold talks and attend the signing ceremony of cooperation documents. Premier Li Qiang and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Zhao Leji will meet with President Muizzu respectively, Wang told reporters here on Friday.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) did not participate in the parliamentary elections because it knew that it would lose, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Sunday. «The BNP has taken a strategy of boycotting the election with various excuses, various demands. They participated in the 2018 election and got some parliamentary seats, but this year they did not participate knowing they would be defeated,» Khan, a senior leader of the ruling Awami League, was quoted as saying by the Dhaka Tribune newspaper. Khan made the comments while talking to reporters after casting his vote at Monipuripara in Dhaka's Farmgate area.

BJD and opposition BJP were working against Odisha's self-esteem by involving «outsiders» in the state's affairs, senior Congress leader Ajoy Kumar alleged on Sunday. Raising the slogan of «Odisha for Odias», he claimed that «outsiders» were now playing a bigger role in the state's politics, economy and bureaucracy while the importance of Odias was diminishing day by day. «Government work contracts of Rs 35,000 crore have been awarded to outsiders.

₹1,150 crore in the Union Territory. The development projects cover technology, energy, water resources, healthcare and education sectors.

appeals court on Saturday allowed a judge's ruling that barred California from enforcing a new law that bans the carrying of guns in most public places on the grounds that it was unconstitutional to take effect. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved an order by a different 9th Circuit panel from a week earlier that suspended an injunction issued by a judge who concluded the Democratic-led state's law violated the right of citizens to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment.

Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday alleged the Enforcement Directorate has mentioned his name in its supplementary charge sheet in the Mahadev betting app case as part of a "political conspiracy" at the behest of its «political masters». The Congress leader also alleged the federal agency has been fraudulently arresting people and pressuring them to give statements against him and his associates. The ED in its second prosecution complaint (charge sheet) filed before a special court in Raipur on January 1 stated that alleged courier Asim Das, arrested in the Mahadev betting app case, who claimed he had been sent to «deliver» cash to Bhupesh Baghel, has retracted his denial of having made the charges.

Meetei Council Moreh has urged the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi to settle and rehabilitate all the people driven out of Moreh since 1991. On January 2, seven security personnels were injured in an attack by suspected militants at bordering Moreh in Tengnoupal district. Moreh is just 4 km to the west of Myanmar’s largest border town Tamu.

ARY News reported. The resolution which was presented by Senator Dilawar Khan, was approved by the majority of lawmakers.

AAP MP Sanjay Singh, arrested in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise scam, to sign forms and documents for his Rajya Sabha renomination. Special Judge M K Nagpal passed the order on an application filed by the politician, who submitted that his present term as a member of the Rajya Sabha is expiring on January 27 and the Returning Officer has issued a notice on January 2 for conduct of the election and nominations for the same are to be submitted by January 9.

Jeffrey Epstein list LIVE updates The unsealed documents mentioned that Recarey told the attorney that the duo recruited, "I would say approximately 30; 30, 33," girls. The attorney had asked the detective, "And at the end of that massage, if that victim brought other friends, she would get paid for the recruitment of those friends?" "Correct," Recarey replied. Epstein was exposed as a pedophile and killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in 2019.

The elections in Bangladesh are all about one person: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Barron's senior writer Al Root, reporter Carleton English, and deputy editor Ben Levisohn discuss social security and the potential for revenue to be boosted by increasing taxes on earners above $400K.

A court in New York decided to expose the names associated with the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The names constitute 170 illustrious individuals from various walks of life. The names include bigwigs from the world of politics, science, and business. Names such as US former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, Stephen Hawking have come up during the investigation. Hundreds of court filings linked to the disgraced financier were made accessible to the public on Wednesday. Consisting of 40 documents with almost 1,000 pages of statements, it exposed gory details about Epstein’s network. However, the complete collection of documents is still awaiting release.

Enforcement Directorate has filed a fresh charge sheet before a special court in Raipur in a money laundering case investigation linked to alleged illegal betting and gaming through the Mahadev online book app, official sources said Thursday. The federal agency will share this second prosecution complaint (charge sheet) with authorities in Dubai to secure either the deportation or extradition of the two main promoters of the app-- Ravi Uppal and Sourabh Chandrakar, they said.