The Calcutta High Court allowed the Trinamool Congress to use the funds from its three bank accounts that were frozen by the West Bengal Police and the Enforcement Directorate. The party has been allowed to use the funds for day-to-day operations under the supervision of a court-appointed special officer till September 30.
The police had frozen the accounts after rebel TMC MLA Biswanath Das filed a complaint alleging that party funds had been misused. The High Court also observed that at the interim stage, it was unable to find sufficient material justifying the “abrupt” freezing of the accounts within a day of a first information report being registered.
The party had described the ED’s action on Wednesday as “politically motivated”. Read on.
Australia will begin exporting uranium to India for peaceful purposes after the two countries finalised the arrangements needed to implement a civil nuclear cooperation agreement. The pact had been stalled since 2014.
The announcement came during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Australia, where he met his counterpart Anthony Albanese. The leaders did not announce how much uranium Australia would export or when shipments would begin. Read on.
About 3,000 liquefied petroleum gas cylinders were swept away because of heavy rainfall into the Patalganga river from a bottling facility of the…
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