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The United States of America Government announced a fresh sanction for Iranian companies, providing petrochemicals. On September 29, the US Treasury Department issued a notice in this regard and said, this sanction allows Iranian brokers and companies from Hong Kong, UAE and India, which facilitated financial transfers and shipping of Iranian petroleum and petrochemical products. The sanctions were imposed to restrict illicit export of… read-more

In Jharkhand's Deoghar district, brown sugar worth lakhs of rupees was seized from a possession, confirmed police on August 18. The arrest was made on a tip-off, following which the police nabbed the accused, identified as Lalo Miyan, near Kuraiwa forest in Mohanpur Police Station area. They seized 34 gm of brown sugar from his possession. Furthermore, the Deoghar SDPO Pawan Kumar said, the accused was a wanted criminal.

Supreme Court reviewed a petition filed against the demolition in Uttar Pradesh, and said, no demolition should be carried out by the Yogi Adityanath-led Government. On June 16, SC bench AS Bopanna and Vikram Nath asked the State Government to file a counter reply, explaining how the demolition process is being carried out as per municipal law and order, within next three days.

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in Bhubaneswar has frozen four bank accounts, in connection with an illegal digital money-lending case. The EOB shared that it had received a string of complaints from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as well as several victims, regarding the illegal functioning of loan applications, which are not registered under the RBI Act. Three special EOW teams are currently investigating the matter.

Taking a serious note of freebies announced by political parties ahead of elections, the Supreme Court, issued a notice to the ECI. Reviewing a petition, on January 25, CJI NV Ramana asked the EC and Central Government to take a legal path, saying freebies budget goes beyond regular budget, and needs a legal action. The court also asked the EC to dismiss parties, which offers "irrational freebies" to woo voters.