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New Delhi: Delhi’s Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) has arrested retired ADG of Public Works Department (PWD) Anil Kumar Ahuja and the owners of two private firms in a major scam committed in Delhi’s government hospitals during the Corona epidemic. This information has been given by issuing a press release by the ACB. During the Corona crisis, large-scale irregularities and corruption were revealed in the approval of work and execution of work orders. Public Works Department officials made payments to private firms and contractors on the basis of fake and forged bills for…

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging the Centre’s notification to observe June 25 as ‘Samvidhan Murder Day’. The court, while rejecting the petition, said that this notification cannot be called an insult to the Constitution under any circumstances. Apart from this, it does not even come under the category of national insult. Petitioner Sameer Malik had argued that the emergency was imposed under Article 352 of the Constitution, so how can it be called ‘murder of the Constitution’. The court said that the order of…

RIO DE JANEIRO: G20 finance ministers are expected to take a first step towards international cooperation on taxing the super-rich Friday, with a deal in Brazil likely to call for individual nations to strengthen their own measures, rather than delivering a set of unified regulations. The initiative is a key priority for Brazil’s leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who this year heads the G20 grouping that includes the world’s major economies, the European Union and the African Union. On Friday, ministers are discussing financing the climate transition and…

VIENTIANE  – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived early Saturday in Laos, where he will attend a regional meeting and hold talks with his Chinese counterpart, part of a multi-nation Asia visit aimed at reinforcing ties with regional allies in the face of an increasingly assertive Beijing. The top US diplomat is due to meet China’s Wang Yi on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers meeting being held in Vientiane. Blinken has prioritised promoting a “free and open” Asia-Pacific region — a thinly…

Kochi:  Marking its 25th anniversary celebrations, leading digital transformation solutions company UST awarded the GA Menon Scholarships to 25 deserving students at the Govt Higher Secondary School, North Paravur, Kerala.  UST has been closely associated with the GHSS North Paravur, as the company’s Founding Chairman, GA Menon, had been an alumnus of the school. The 25 children were selected for the scholarships based on merit and their academic excellence. The scholarships were awarded to the children at a function organised at the school premises recently. UST’s Chief Values Officer and Global…