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ED restores properties worth Rs 22,280 cr to banks, legitimate claimants: Sitharaman

New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the ED (Enforcement Directorate) has restored properties worth Rs 22,280 crore to the victims or rightful claimants and asserted that the fight against economic offenders will continue unabated. Replying to a debate on the first batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants in the Lok Sabha, she said Rs 14,131.6 crore worth properties belonging to fugitive Vijay Mallya have been restored to public sector banks. As regards the Nirav Modi case, properties to the tune of Rs 1,052.58 crore have been restored to PSBs and private banks. In the

Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh alleges names being deleted from Delhi voters’ list

New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) AAP leader Sanjay Singh on Tuesday alleged deletion of names from voters’ list in Delhi at the instance of the ruling NDA, and said the BJP should not fan polarisation before the upcoming assembly elections in the city. Singh’s charge was countered by Leader of the House and BJP president J P Nadda as well as Union minister Bhupender Yadav. Nadda claimed the names of Bangladeshi and Rohigyas are being removed from the voters’ list following the process laid down in The Constitution itself, and asked the AAP if it was wining with their votes.

Law Minister moves to introduce ‘One Nation, One Election’; opposition says attack on basic structure

New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Tuesday moved in the Lok Sabha two bills which lay down the mechanism to hold simultaneous polls in the country, with the opposition dubbing the draft laws as an attack on the basic structure. Meghwal moved for introduction the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, popularly being referred to as the Bill on “one nation, one election” and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024, which seeks to align the elections of the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Puducherry and the NCT of Delhi. Opposing the

Adani deal under bribery scrutiny was approved against officials’ advice

NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE, Dec 17 (Reuters) – The approach from the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) on Sept. 15, 2021 came out of the blue. The federal agency, tasked with developing the solar sector, wanted to know if the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh would like to sign India’s largest renewables contract. Two years earlier, Andhra Pradesh’s energy regulator had said in a 10-year forecast the state had no short-term need for solar power, and should focus on other renewables that could provide 24-hour energy. But just a day after SECI approached the state government, the 26-member state cabinet led

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