Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023 INDORE BHOPAL UJJAIN MUMBAI PUNE & ! %( % !& &"# $ &"$ % # Wife summoned by CBI, Didi's nephew unfazed Close shave for Nath as hosp lift slips to basement A CBI team descended on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek’s residence on Sunday morning and summoned his wife Rujira Narula and sister-in-law Menaka Gambhir in connection with investigations into a coal scam. The allegation is that the coal mafia had paid regular kickbacks to leaders of Ben- gal's ruling Trinamool Congress. The money was allegedly channelled through Vinay Mishra, who is the general secretary of the Trinamool's youth wing, which is headed by Abhishek Banerjee. On December 31, the CBI had raided the home of Vinay Mishra, who is now on the run. The agency has already issued an NBW against him. Also under the CBI scanner are alleged huge transfers of foreign currency in two bank accounts of TMC MP Abhishek’s wife -- one in London and the other in Thailand. According to sources, the CBI officials had spoken with Rujira over telephone and wanted to question her on Sunday itself in the afternoon. When the CBI officials landed at the Banerjee doorstep, no one in the family was present on the premises and the CBI offi- cials left a phone number stating that Rujira should contact them soon after returning. According to CBI sources, while handing over the summons to Abhishek’s sister-in-law Menaka at her residence, the CBI officials stated that they will visit her again on February 22 at 11 am. Notably, in November, the CBI had registered an FIR against Anup Manjhi alias Lala, one of the suspected kingpins in a coal scam. Lala is also said to be a close aide of the TMC’s Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee. At the heart of the summons is BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s claim at a public meeting on January 25, where he produced a bank account statement of Kasikorn Bank in Thailand and claimed that Lala had transferred several crores of rupees into Rujira’s account. DJOKOVIC WINS OZ OPEN " # $ !' ! !' ! $ % !# #!! $ &" ! % % # % &$$ $ ' ' % $ $ $ %% &$%# " % $ "! $ " !&# &$%# ! & ( $ $ # ! ! $ % ' %!#( !&% ! "" # $ Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Sunday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to convey 'every citizen's anguish and deep distress regarding the spiralling fuel and gas prices'. Citing the Covid-19 pandemic, Gandhi in the letter alleged that in distressing time, the central government is making a profit from people's misery and suffering. She termed the rise in fuel prices as "short of extortion to cover up economic mismanagement" and urged the Prime Min- ! ister to follow 'Raj Dharma' and reduce fuel prices by partially rolling back excise duty . 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"$ ! ! 104 test+ve in city INDORE: As many as 104 patients tested positive out of 1971 sample reports received on Sunday Rate of positive . patients was recorded at 5.28% and total number of positive cases reached 58,860. No death was reported. According to the bulletin, total sample reports received till Sunday was 8,22,186. As many as 1850 samples were tested negative on Sunday . Department took 2283 more samples for testing including 1052 for RT-PCR and 660 are getting treatment in the city . Total 57269 patients have been discharged so far. Woman forced to drink liquor, gangraped SHAHDOL:• A 20-year-old woman was gang-raped allegedly by four persons in Shahdol district, police said on Sunday She was forced to drink liquor in a farmhouse in . Gadaghat area under Jaitpur PS and then gang-raped on February 18 and 19, said Shahdol ASP Mukesh Vaishya. "On February 20, the four accused left her in front of her house. Her kin later filed a police complaint. The victim was first taken to Jaitpur health centre. Congress state media vice-president Bhupendra Gupta said that illegal sand mafia had kidnapped the girl and she was gang raped by 3 people for four days. The girl was kept at a farm house of mafia, Rajesh Shukla and was forced her to drink liquor. Gupta alleged that BJP Mandal president Rajesh Shukla and his aides-- Vijay Tripathi and Monu Maharaj had raped the girl. The party is going to take out a torch rally and demanded arrest of the culprits and capital punishment. 'Disengagement process in east Ladakh complete' SALEM: The disengagement process by India and China in eastern Ladakh is 'complete' after nine rounds of diplomatic and military level talks between the two neighbours, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said here on Sunday as he hit out at Congress for 'doubting' Indian soldiers' bravery . He also lashed out at the Congress and its southern ally DMK for 'creating a controversy' over Rafale fighter jet deal and said the CAG among others had given 'clean chit'. It had blunted the opposition criticism that "chowkidar chor hai" (the watchman is thief), a barb aimed at PM Modi, and rather proved "chowkidar is pure hai," he asserted. Addressing a state conference of the BJYM in this town in western Tamil Nadu ahead of the assem- bly polls likely in the next two months,, he pitched strongly for the BJPAIADMK alliance. The pair of "lotus and two leaves" alone can bring prosperity to the state, he said, alluding to the respective poll symbols of the BJP and the AIADMK. Speaking about the border standoff, he said after nine rounds of diplomatic and military level talks between ! these distressing times, the Government has chosen to profiteer off people's misery and suffering," she said. She termed the rise in fuel prices as a "brazen act of profiteering". "Fuel prices are at a historic and unsustainable high. In fact, petrol has breached the Rs 100/litre mark in many parts of the country. The surging price of diesel has added to the escalating woes of millions of farmers. State Budget session begins today The Assembly session beginning on Monday will continue till March 26. Because of the corona pandemic, none of the sessions continued for a long time. In the current session, the Budget will be placed in the House on March 2. An all-party meeting was also held on Sunday It was resolved . that the House would follow the corona-related guidelines and all the members would be present. Parliamentary affairs minister Narottam Mishra said the House would complete its full session. The Governor will address the House after election of the Speaker on Monday This is . going to be the first session of the House which will continue for a longer period of time. So, the Congress is getting ready to rip into the government. ! India and China, a solution had been found, referring to the mutually agreed disengagement process. Troops and weapons have been withdrawn from the north and south banks of Pangong lake in that area. "After nine rounds of military and diplomatic dialogue, the disengagement process is complete. But unfortunately the Congress is doubting Indian army's bravery isn't it insulting .... to the soldiers who do the supreme sacrifice," he said. On Sunday around 6pm, it was a close shave for former chief minister Kamal Nath and three MLAs when a lift at DNS Hospital slipped following 'overloading'. The lift slipped from ground floor to the basement. Nath was to reach third floor to visit Congress leader Ramesh Patel, who is admitted there. Former chief minister and other leaders were stuck in the lift for over 10 minutes and managed to come out only after the technician opened the door. No one was injured. The hospital administration claimed that the slip occurred due to overloading. 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The I-T raids were conducted on business establishments and residential premises owned by Daga brothers. The raids that started on Thursday took four days to complete the operations and concluded on Sunday . Sources from the I-T department said that the cash amount of Rs 7.5 crore was found from one of his soya plants. The initial investigations also suggest that an estimated Rs 200 crore were invested in various shell companies by Daga brothers. The amount is expected to increase during further investigations. Sources said that about half a dozen shell companies have come to the fore through which Daga and his firms used to evade taxes and make manipulations in the unaccounted money earned from his businesses.