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Indian Banks Have Adequate Capital, No Reason for Worry Indian Horizon National English Daily [email protected] www.indianhorizon.org RNI No: Deleng/2013/51507 In memory of Dr Asima Kemal and Prof. Dr. Salim W Kemal [email protected] Volume Price: 3.00 No: 7 Issue No: 68 Published from Hyderabad & New Delhi New Delhi Monday, March 9, 2020 Pages 12 + 4 pull out (P16) CM pats Harish Rao for Saudi King most probably presenting balanced & Shivpal says he is ready for alliance with SP dead, or on deathbed: realistic budget for 2020-2021 Whistleblower P-3 P-5 P-8 Briefs Rana Kapoor’s assets, Trivedi, Mausam, Arpita among companies, investments four Trinamool RS candidates under ED radar Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) Giv- after her loss, Banerjee reposed ing weightage to experience, faith in Ghosh, making her the West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool South Dinajpur district party Congress on Sunday fielded President. Trivedi, a former its national General Secretary Railway Minister, is the only Subrata Bakshi, theatre per- one among the four to have sonality Arpita Ghosh, former been a Rajya Sabha member Union Minister Dinesh Trivedi - for 12 years (1990-1996 rep- and former MP Mausam Noor resenting Janata Dal and 2002- New Delhi Mar 8: Invest- three daughters over a Rs for the coming Rajya Sabha 2008 as Trinamool member). ments worth over Rs 2,000 600 crore fund received by a polls, while dropping all its re- He won the Barrackpore Lok crore, 44 expensive paint- firm allegedly “controlled” by tiring members. Sabha seat twice in 2009 and ings and a dozen alleged them from an entity linked to Announcing the list of four our nominations are women teouble-shooter, is an old war- 2014 before going down last shell firms are at the heart of the scam-hit Dewan Hous- nominees on her Twitter han- #InternationalWomensDay,” horse, considered one of the year to BJP candidate Arjun ED’s investigations against ing Finance Limited (DHFL). dle on International Women’s Banerjee said in her tweet. top rung leaders of the party. Singh, who had crossed over Yes Bank founder Rana Ka- The Kapoor’s linked firm, Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan says she signed her upcoming release “Angrezi Medium” only because she wanted to work with the film’s lead actor Irrfan Khan. day, party supremo and Chief Five RS seats in the state will He is a two-time MP from Kol- from Trinamool after not get- poor who was arrested by DoIT Urban Ventures (India) Minister Mamata Banerjee fall vacant on April 2. Four of kata South, having first won in ting the ticket for the seat. the agency on Sunday on Pvt Ltd, is alleged to have re- pointed out that of the four the retiring members are from a by-poll in December 2011, re- Mausam has been a two- money laundering charges, ceived the funds when Yes Police ‘lathicharge’ candidates, two - Ghosh and Trinamool - K.D. Singh. Ahmed placing Banerjee, who resigned term Lok Sabha member of the officials said. The agency, of- Bank had a exposure of more Mausam - are women. Hasan Imran, painter Jogen on becoming the Chief Minis- Congress representing Malda ficial sources said, has also than Rs 3,000 crore loans to protesters in Punjab All four are former Lok Sabha Chowdhury and Manish Gupta. ter. He was re-elected in 2014, North from 2009-2019. She recovered documents that DHFL, already being probed members. Excepting Bakshi, The fifth is an expelled CPI-M but did not contest the polls last crossed over to the Trinamool show some assets of the Ka- for purported financial ir- Patiala, March 8 (IANS) Nearly half a dozen the other three had lost the gen- member Ritabrata Banerjee. As year due to health issues. ahead of last year’s Lok Sabha poor family in London and regularities and diversion of protesters, comprising women, were in- eral elections last year to BJP per the arithmetic in the state Ghosh, who rose to promi- election but lost the seat. The the source of funds for their funds. The bank, they said, al- jured in Punjab’s Patiala district after being rivals. “I am glad to announce assembly, the four Trinamool nence politically during the notification for the polls were acquisition is now being in- legedly did not initiate action lathicharged by the police at a demonstra- that @AITCofficial will be nom- candidates are likely to sail Nandigram movement one and issued on March 6, with March vestigated. to recover the NPA-turned tion against the failure of the Congress gov- inating Arpita Ghosh, Mausam through. All eyes are now fixed a half decades back against the 13 being the last date for filing The central probe agency loans from DHFL and the ernment to provide them jobs, police said. Noor, Dinesh Trivedi & Subrata on the fifth seat, which could go then Left Front government’s nominations. The scrutiny will that began action against the agency suspects that the Rs Several women protesters, who were injured, Bakshi to the Rajya Sabha. As a the way of the Left Front-Con- bid to acquire huge tracts of take place on March 14 and banker by raiding his upscale 600 crore funds were part of claimed that the police “attacked” them with- part of my constant endeavour gress combine, if they can put firmland to build a chemical March 18 is the last date for residence in south Mumbai alleged kick backs received as out a provocation and they were pulled by the towards woman empower- up a joint candidate. Bakshi, hub, had failed to retain Bal- withdrawal of candidature. The on Friday is primarily inves- quid pro quo in the firm con- hair. A few policemen were among those in- ment, I am proud that half of Banerjee’s close confidante and urghat seat in 2019. But even polls are scheduled. tigating Kapoor, his wife and trolled by the Kapoor family. jured as they tried to disperse the protesters who wanted to surround the Chief Minister Shaheen Bagh shopkeepers feel Amarinder Singh’s private residence here. Ex-PDP leader launches ‘Apni Party’ in Kashmir The protesters, belonging to ETT-TET Un- the heat of anti-CAA protests Srinagar, March 8 (IANS) Usaman Majeed, Dilawar members of Apni Party, employed Teachers’ Union, were protesting In a first major political ini- Mir, Javid Baig, Shoiab Bukhari said Apni Party will against the failure of the government to pro- New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) The to closure of shops, affecting their tiative in Jammu and Kash- Lone, Ajaz Khan, Rafi Mir, not behave like dynastic vide them government jobs in the Education shopkeepers of Delhi’s Shaheen livelihood. The meeting, however, mir after the abrogation Vikram Malhotra, and for- parties and the president of Department. The protesters have cleared the Bagh area on Saturday met DCP failed to produce any positive of article 370 on August 5, mer chief secretary Vijay the party will be elected on Elementary Teacher Training (ETT) and qual- (south-east district) R.P. Meena, outcome for the shopkeepers. A 2019, Apni Party, a new Bakaya, and Ghulam Has- a rotational basis. He said ified the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET). urging him to take necessary steps member of the market association political party was floated san Mir and others were he decided to form a new so that they could re-open their told IANS: “The DCP told us that by former PDP leader and present at the launching party to solve the problems shops whose shutters have not he is waiting for the orders from minister Altaf Bukhari on ceremony. “The issues like faced by the people in ab- CBI registers FIR in been downed since the protests the Supreme Court, and only after Sunday. Bukhari, address- carrying out development self rule and autonomy do sence of a political setup around the CAA and the NRC be- the top court’s directions, that ad- ing a press conference in Jammu and Kashmir. not figure on the agenda of after the abrogation of Ar- UPPCL PF scam in UP gan over two months ago. ministration would be able to do at his residence here at Several new members of ‘Apni Party’, he said. Its sole ticle 370. Condemning the The representatives of Kalindi something.” Further venting his Residency Road, said Apni the party who quit different purpose is to strive for de- slapping of Public Safety Lucknow, March 8 (IANS) The CBI has finally Kunj Market Welfare Association frustration, he said: “Now, we are party has been launched political parties, especially, velopment and politics of Act (PSA) on three former registered an FIR involving a scam over “illegal said they were facing losses due left with nothing. with the sole purpose of PDP and the Congress like truth.” Flanked by the new chief ministers. investment” of employees’ provident fund. The PF money was allegedly invested in a private firm, Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL), currently facing money laundering charges. The Indian banks have adequate FIR was registered on Friday night, almost five Bhudevi a shining example months after the Yogi Adityanath government had sought a CBI probe into the Rs 2,268 crore of women’s empowerment Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) investment capital, no reason for worry: CEA scam in the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Visakhapatnam, March the organisation to help Limited (UPPCL). The FIR was lodged against New Delhi, March 8 ratio, but the SBI is as safe as 8 (IANS) Padala Bhudevi, the people especially farm- Pravin Kumar Gupta, former secretary of the (IANS) As the Yes Bank cri- any other bank in the world.
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