New Delhi, Sep 24 Following are the top stories at 9 pm:
NATION
DEL112 LDALL PB-ED-AAP (8.53 PM)
**** AAP tears into BJP over ED searches, claims misuse of central agency; holds protest
Chandigarh: Punjab’s ruling AAP on Thursday called out the BJP-led Centre over the Enforcement Directorate’s recent search operations in Punjab and held a protest, accusing it of misusing probe agencies ahead of the state assembly polls. ****
DEL103 EC-3RDLD RAHUL (8.14 PM)
**** PM, Shah, CEC ‘deshdrohis’; Gyanesh Kumar should resign and turn ‘approver’: Rahul
New Delhi: Mounting a no-holds-barred attack, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar were “deshdrohis” (traitors) as they “destroyed” India’s vote, and demanded that the CEC should immediately resign. ****
DEL39 NCR-BUS-4THLD FIRE (3.25 PM)
**** Burning smell, ignored warnings: 9 killed as bus catches on Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida
Noida: Nine passengers were burnt to death when a bus on its way from Delhi to Uttar Pradesh’s Mahoba caught fire on the Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida, officials said on Thursday. ****
DEL95 JAL SHAKTI-NETHERLANDS (7.38 PM)
**** India, Netherlands sign MoUs for technical cooperation on Kalpasar project
New Delhi: The Ministry of Jal Shakti on Thursday signed two tripartite MoUs with the Netherlands for technical cooperation and capacity building for the Kalpasar project in Gujarat, as the two countries sought to further strengthen the strategic partnership in the water sector. ****
DEL79 CBI-BETTING-MAHADEV (6.18 PM)
**** CBI arrests Mahadev betting app kingpin upon arrival from Dubai
New Delhi: The CBI has arrested alleged kingpin in the Mahadev Online Betting Application case, Abhishek Kumar, who was on the run, after he arrived from Dubai at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, officials said Thursday. ****
DEL75 EC-LD-CJP (5.55 PM)
**** CJP threatens ‘Jantar Mantar 2.0’ if CEC Gyanesh Kumar does not resign
New Delhi: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Thursday demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar for “undermining” voter rights, and warned of a nationwide agitation, including “Jantar Mantar 2.0”, if he does not step down within 48 hours. ****
CAL20 BH-HARASSMENT-LD ARREST (1.30 PM)
**** Bihar: Group behaves indecently with girl in public, 4 arrested
Samastipur (Bihar): A girl was allegedly harassed in public by a group of people who behaved indecently with her in Bihar’s Samastipur district, following which four accused were arrested, police said on Thursday. ****
LEGAL
LGD43 SC-SEXUAL ASSAULT-MATRIMONIAL DISPUTE (8.20 PM)
**** No immediate arrest of parent if sexual assault of child alleged in matrimonial dispute: SC
New Delhi: Flagging the rising menace of false sexual-assault complaints involving children in matrimonial cases filed by estranged couples under the POCSO Act, the Supreme Court on Thursday said there will be no immediate arrest of an accused if the offence is alleged to have been committed by a parent or a family member living under the same roof. ****
LGD34 SC-CREAMY LAYER-CENTRE (6.47 PM)
**** Centre seeks prospective application of SC verdict on OBC creamy-layer criteria
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine the Centre’s plea seeking a prospective application of its March 11 verdict that had held that the salary or income of a parent employed in a PSU or the private sector could not by itself be treated as the determinative criterion for creamy-layer exclusion for the Other Backward Classes (OBC). ****
BUSINESS
DEL76 BIZ-INDIA-RUSSIAN-OIL (7.22 PM)
**** India’s Russian oil imports hold near 1.8 million bpd as Middle East fills gaps
New Delhi: India’s imports of Russian crude are running around 1.8 million barrels per day in September, broadly steady from August but below July levels, as refinery maintenance and stronger Chinese buying curbed Russian flows, while Middle Eastern suppliers stepped in to fill the gap. ****
DEL47 BIZ-UPI MDR-NPCI (5.13 PM)
**** Only 10 pc of UPI transaction value risks MDR charges; corporates to absorb most proposed fees: NPCI
Mumbai: Only about 10 per cent of the overall value of UPI transactions could face the risk of charges being passed on to consumers under the merchant discount rate (MDR), with large corporates, which already accept credit cards, absorbing most of the proposed costs, NPCI chief Dilip Asbe said on Thursday. ****
FOREIGN
FGN33 CHINA-US-TRADE (4.39 PM)
**** China, US reach consensus on multiple economic and trade issues: Chinese Commerce Ministry
Beijing, Sept 24 (PTI) China and the US have reached consensus on multiple economic and trade issues during their latest round of consultations in New York, where the two sides also held their first dialogue on artificial intelligence (AI), the Chinese Commerce Ministry said on Thursday. By K J M Varma ****
FGN15 UN-JAISHANKAR-CARICOM (9.01 AM)
**** India, CARICOM must further deepen economic, digital ties: EAM Jaishankar
New York: India and the Caribbean nations must further deepen ties in economic, digital and mobility domains, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said.
(PTI News)
