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JK insurance scam: ED attaches Rs 36 cr assets

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday said it has attached fixed deposits and a land worth more than Rs 36 crore belonging to Reliance General Insurance Pvt Ltd and Trinity Reinsurance Brokers Private Limited as part of a money laundering probe linked to an alleged insurance scam in Jammu and Kashmir.           

Curbs on BS III, BS IV vehicles lifted in Delhi

New Delhi: The Central Government on Thursday lifted a ban on non-essential construction work and plying of BS-III petrol and BS-IV diesel four-wheelers in Delhi-NCR amid an improvement in air quality in the region. The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) noted a significant improvement with an AQI of 316 at 2 pm, well below the threshold for invoking Stage-III actions under the air pollution control plan called the Graded Response Action Plan.

Yasin Malik main shooter of 4 IAF men killing: Eyewitness

Jammu: JKLF chief Yasin Malik lifted his ‘pheran’, pulled out his gun and opened fire at a group of IAF personnel, an eyewitness deposed before a special CBI court on Thursday while narrating what happened in Srinagar on January 25, 1990. Former IAF corporal Rajwar Umeshwar Singh, who survived the terror attack in which four IAF personnel were killed, pointed to Malik in the courtroom as the main shooter. Malik attended the court proceedings on video from Delhi’s Tihar Jail where he has been incarcerated since 2019.      

Youth dies of heart attack in coaching class

Indore: A 20-year-old man preparing for the civil services exam died after he fell unconscious at his coaching class in Indore in Madhya Pradesh due to a heart-related disorder, officials said on Thursday. In footage from the coaching class’ CCTV, which went viral on social media, Raja Lodhi, a resident of Sagar, can be seen falling unconscious on a table.

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