Centre gives Elgar Parishad case to NIA

The Centre on Friday transferred the Koregaon-Bhima case to the National Investigation Agency. This comes a day after it emerged that Sharad Pawar had written to Maharashtra CM asking him to set up an SIT to probe the police action in the Elgar Parishad case. The “gravity of offence” involved, the “role” of CPI (Maoist) needed to be probed, the order cited.

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Monetary policy has limits, need structural reforms: RBI governor

Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday called for structural reforms and fiscal measures to activate growth, saying monetary policy has its limits. Das said that states should also play an important role by enhancing capital expenditure which has high multiplier effect. His comments come days ahead of the Union Budget on February 1.

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SC may ban tainted netas fighting polls

The Supreme Court agreed to examine if political parties could be restrained from fielding people with criminal background in elections. The bench said ​​ something needs to be done in national interest to control the problem after the Election Commission contended criminalisation of politics is going on unabated and SC’s previous verdicts have made no impact.

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Pak may escape FATF blacklist at Paris plenary

Chances of Pakistan escaping the dreaded FATF blacklist at its plenary next month in Paris have increased after it got the all clear on 14 out of 27 action plans at a recent review meet. While China has pushed to get Pakistan off the hook at the FATF and will continue to make efforts in the next meet, sources said there is a definite softening of the western position on the issue.

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Excessive tax a social injustice: CJI Bobde

Chief Justice of India S A Bobde on Friday said arbitrary or excessive tax results in "social injustice" by a government, indirectly impressing upon the government to attempt simplification of the tax regime. “The time has come for Parliament to enact some new legislation, say, ‘Prevention of Cruelty to Taxpayers Act’, which should override all fiscal legislations.”

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BJP Leader Arrested For Remarks Against Woman Collector: Police

Former Madhya Pradesh minister and BJP leader Badrilal Yadav was arrested on Friday for allegedly making an objectionable remark against Rajgarh collector Nidhi Nivedita during a public meeting,...

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Ajit Agarkar Applies For National Selector's Job

Ajit Agarkar, who is a former chairman of Mumbai senior selection committee, is in contention for the chairman's post as the new constitution doesn't have provisions for zonal system.

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